Kevin M. Kalinsky, MD, addresses the health disparities that affect the availability of care based on such factors as insurance coverage or caregiver shortages, which exacerbate a lack of access to healthcare.
As an example, Dr Kalinsky refers to a situation during the escalation of the COVID-19 pandemic when patients with advanced and metastatic breast cancer were admitted to hospitals owing to a nursing shortage and lack of availability at outpatient infusion centers. He views the broad array of healthcare infrastructure as a stressed system that, when services and caregivers are spread thin, begins to reveal fissures and cracks.
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