Richard Menger is a physician and writer who contributed articles to The Weekly Standard between 2016 and 2018. His pieces focused on healthcare policy, medical training, and free-market health reform, drawing on his background in surgical practice. He also wrote about higher education issues, including campus policy debates at Harvard.
The Boston Globe highlighted 'overlapping surgery,' provoking outcry and even the Senate Finance Committee. But it's a net good for patients and surgeons-in-waiting.
The national governing body of physician training, the American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), limits the number of hours doctors in training can work in a given week. Generally speaking, on average, residents can be at the hospital for only 80 hours over a seven-day period. This…
The Republican tax overhaul significantly undoes the Affordable Care Act by removing the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Next, the GOP House has their sights on Medicaid reform.
Sexual assault is a disgusting act that has no place in any part of society, an institution of higher education or elsewhere. But efforts to eliminate it should not be manipulated to curtail freedom in the process.