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Crowded airport

Lessons from the Runway: How Southwest’s System Crash Illuminates Healthcare’s Technical Debt Problem

When Southwest Airlines canceled system-wide flights during the 2022 winter holidays, stranded passengers sleeping in airport hallways made headlines. The scenes were eerily reminiscent of something even more serious yet less publicized — ones I encounter daily as an emergency physician — patients...
February 18, 2025
Aaron Kornblith
Aaron Kornblith
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Ukraine war

The Selfish Case for Supporting Ukraine

January 28, 2025
Drew Despereaux
We are in the third year of the three-day Russian “military exercise” into Ukraine, and with the incoming American political...
Opinion
UCSF police shut down a pro-Palestinian tent encampment on May 14, 2024

Civil Disobedience: The New Hippocratic Oath

January 21, 2025
Abu Taha
In his essay “ Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau writes: “Can there not be a...
Opinion
UC New Green Deal graphic.

UCSF Admin — Follow Through with Strong Decarbonization Plans

December 10, 2024
UC Green New Deal Coalition
According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, 2024 is set to be yet another hottest year ever recorded...
Opinion
College class

This Date in UCSF History: Student-Teachers Demand Full Employee Rights

September 24, 2024
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988.] Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late...
Opinion
Lawrence Livermore weapons laboratory.

This Date in UCSF History: Split from Weapons Lab

September 17, 2024
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on September 24, 1987.] On Sept. 12, the University of California Student Association voted overwhelmingly to...
Opinion
Indignant operagoers

This Date in UCSF History: A Night at the Opera

September 10, 2024
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 14, 1989.] Friday evening Sept. 8 was opening night at the San Francisco Opera...
Opinion
UCSF police shut down a pro-Palestinian tent encampment on May 14, 2024

U Can Stay Feigning — A Tale of Repression and Hypocrisy at UCSF

September 10, 2024
WCNSF — Would you be able to guess what this medical acronym stands for? As healthcare profession trainees, weencounter hundreds...
Opinion
Anti Israel poster.

The University of California Must Divest from Israel Now

May 14, 2024
Jess Ghannam
Catherine Gao
When the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa refused to heed the call from the international community to end its...
Opinion
Illustration of person bothered by social media logos.

The Case for Increased Regulation of Social Media

May 7, 2024
Samuel O'Brien
The social determinants of health are the underlying factors that influence our health outside of the doctor’s office, including the...
Opinion
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