The Affordable Care Act has left hospitals short on doctors and waiting room chairs. As the newly-insured queue for healthcare, some patients are shelling out thousands to skip the line. Hospitals are increasingly catering to more affluent patients, but some physicians wonder whether this is ethical, or even effective. Concierge medicine has been a hot…
Following the recent sexual harassment scandal at Scientific American, heated ethical debates dominated the science journalism digisphere. We —the ten budding writers in the UC Santa Cruz Science Communication Program class of 2014, led by our instructor, Nature reporter Erika Check Hayden — decided to weigh in. We started with the nine Principles of Journalism…
