Employment LawFeaturedHealth CareMental Health
October 29, 2025By Sofia Ramirez
Each year, escalating burnout and untreated depression drive more than 400 physicians to die by suicide.[i] Before 1984, resident physicians often worked 90–100-hour work weeks with 24–36-hour on-call shifts.[ii] Reform only gained traction after the highly publicized death of Liby Zion in 1984, whose care lied in the hands of sleep-deprived, overworked residents.[iii] In response, […]
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Criminal LawFeaturedFlorida LawMental Health
April 18, 2024By Victoire Jonqua
On Saturday, March 9th, 2024, Ryan Gainer, a fifteen-year-old Black boy with autism, was shot and killed by a San Bernardino police officer right in front of his family home in Apple Valley, Southern California.[i] Gainer’s family called 911 after he attacked his sister during a disagreement and broke a glass door.[ii] When the […]
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Aviation LawFeaturedFederal LawMental Health
April 16, 2024By Rosanne Sherman
There is an elephant in the cockpit. Pilots have described the elephant as “at best humiliating or embarrassing, at worst the end of our flying careers.”[i] The “elephant” is mental illness, which the general public has universally stigmatized. There is an increasing number of pilots flying while suffering from an untreated mental illness that […]
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Criminal LawMental Health
March 29, 2021By Danay Hernandez
President Nixon declared drug abuse “public enemy number one.” Consequently, it should be absolutely no surprise that the war on drugs has resulted in the longest and deadliest war in the United States of America. The war on drugs has stormed the world for many decades. As of today, the war on drugs has been ongoing for forty-nine years.
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