Patrick Skerrett, STAT

Patrick Skerrett

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Past articles by Patrick:

Prosecutors: Convicted CEO Elizabeth Holmes is a flight risk

Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes booked a 2022 flight to Mexico without a scheduled return trip, prompting prosecutors to warn she poses a flight risk while appealing her conviction for defrauding investors. → Read More

Biopharma leaders helped save democracy. Now what?

Some argue that it’s not the job of biopharmaceutical leaders to weigh in on policy matters outside of their wheelhouse. But that ecosystem won’t function properly if our democracy doesn’t. → Read More

India’s lax oversight of pharmaceutical manufacturing imperils health around the world

Dinesh Thakur and Prashant Reddy talk about why they wrote "The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India," and what its regulators and prosecutors need to to do clean up the country's pharmaceutical industry. → Read More

Most-read First Opinion essays of 2022

If you like reading opinion/perspective essays, check out the most-read First Opinion essays from 2022. → Read More

The real experts: people living with mental illness

This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," NAMI's Ken Duckworth talks about the valuable lessons that can be learned from people with lived experiences of mental illness. → Read More

Listen: The ‘First Opinion Podcast’ live from Boston: Jay Baruch returns

In a special event as part of STAT's Open Doors initiative, the "First Opinion Podcast" went live this week with returning guest Jay Baruch talking about the surprising effect of thinking about retiring from emergency medicine. → Read More

Covid is not a 'racial equity success story'

This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," @ChomiloMD counters the narrative that narrowing death rates between white Americans and Americans of color represents a racial equity success story by looking at the big picture. → Read More

Listen: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here’s hoping

This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," an addiction prevention specialist talks about states potentially misdirecting money they receive from national opioid settlements. → Read More

Home health care is facing devastating 'clawbacks'

This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," Terry Wilcox, co-founder of @PatientsRising, talks about the value of home health care and how it is being threatened by a Medicare proposal. → Read More

What makes food 'healthy' and why we don't prioritize nutrition

In this week's First Opinion Podcast, nutrition policy expert @marionnestle talks about the FDA's new food labels, and the problem with "food products." → Read More

Listen: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be even worse

This week on the First Opinion Podcast, law professor @LawrenceGostin explores how rulings by the Supreme Court on cases now on its docket could likely affect public health — and not in a good way. → Read More

Listen: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what’s ‘primarily medical in nature’

This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," two wheelchair users, Paul Amadeus Lane and Jim Meade, talk about why Medicare needs to rethink its policies for covering the cost of advanced wheelchairs. → Read More

Listen: How the Dobbs decision could affect how and where clinical trials are conducted

The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have many trickle-down effects. Some will change how clinical trials are conducted. → Read More

Polio is back in the U.S. Two physicians offer ways to fight its spread

The surprise reappearance of polio in New York state is worrisome for many reasons. This week on the "First Opinion Podcast," two physicians talk about why it's back and what to do about it. → Read More

How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?

This week's "First Opinion Podcast" episode explores the challenges of managing chronic pain. The gold standard is interdisciplinary management with exercise, mindfulness, hypnosis, and even opioids when needed. → Read More

Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing

Nurses are the backbone of hospitals and health care systems. More must be done says @janemuir__ to keep them in staff positions and promote them into leadership roles. → Read More

5 most widely read First Opinion essays of 2021

Turbulent times offer an abundance of topics for authors seeking to right wrongs, offer direction, and sometimes just to tell a story. STAT published nearly 600 First Opinion essays this year. These were the most widely read. → Read More

Chelsea Clinton on fracking, public health, and more

Chelsea Clinton joined the "First Opinion Podcast" to talk about fracking, public health, and other issues. Here are excerpts from it. → Read More

Experts describe the day they realized Covid-19 was here to stay

STAT asked a range of people to share their answers to this question: What was the moment last year you realized we were in real trouble? → Read More

Haider Warraich on how some hospitals treat their communities

Warraich details his first experience with the American health care system after training in Pakistan, and how he came to see its flaws. → Read More