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Dr. Andy Coates is assistant professor of medicine and psychiatry at Albany Medical College. The internist has been working on the COVID-19 critical care…
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A man in his 90s became very ill and was brought to the hospital by ambulance. The emergency room physician called and asked me to admit the patient to…
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This week NY State of Health, also named "The Official Health Plan Marketplace," put out a press release to celebrate a milestone."800,333 New Yorkers…
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December arrives under honking Geese. As the last dying leaves find their way to the ground, frost tints the mornings, snow flurries lick the landscape,…
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Last week we saw a domestic national news cycle dominated by the "glitches" that derailed the launch of the web-based exchanges where uninsured American…
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Today, commentator Dr. Andrew Coates discusses the glitches plaguing the Affordable Care Act website.When I was young I worked as a carpenter's helper…
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The government shutdown and the disconnect on health care By Andrew D. Coates, M.D., F.A.C.P.I’d like to offer some thoughts this week about the…
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Influenza rocked our community hospital for weeks this winter just as the first snowstorms came. Our hospital medicine service was swamped with patients.…
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We physicians earn a place in society that yields great scientific and human insight, the impact of illness upon individual lives. Yet we are encouraged…
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My mother and my public school teachers taught me that the foundations of democracy were based upon centuries of struggle to protect personal dignity from…