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My child would be better off at home.” At the outset of my career as a pediatric hospitalist at a major children’s hospital, I would have dismissed a statement like that from a parent. While I would have admitted that improvements could always be made at our hospital, I would have defended the wonderful care we provided. I would have attributed such a sentiment to the simple fact that hospitalizations were always going to be stressful for children and their families. (Charles A. Newcomer, M.D., 1/14)

Match Day is a watershed moment in a medical trainee’s career and represents the culmination of years of effort and sacrifice. Only four days away from his own Match Day, however, Ramsi received an unexpected news via email: he had not matched to a single physical medicine and rehabilitation residency program. (Ayush Peddireddi, 1/18)

The recently published article, “Lawsuits, fines, complaints put pressure on Athena Nursing Homes,” focused attention on several instances where our health care company’s performance during this unprecedented, three-year-long period of challenges was below what we have strived for in nearly four decades of providing quality, skilled nursing facility care in Connecticut and surrounding states. (Lawrence Santilli, 1/18)

This installment focuses on a handful of extraordinarily innovative pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies that developed Covid-19 vaccines in record time during a daunting global pandemic — and then butted heads in a race to secure riches. (Timothy L. O'Brien, 1/17)