‘A rude awakening’: more doctors running for office in rebuke to Trump’s health policies (opens in new tab)

Medical professionals are entering the political arena as funding cuts, layoffs and RFK Jr’s vaccine skepticism spur them to actionWhen walked into Detroit’s health department in 2015, he found about 85 employees crammed into the back of a municipal parking building. The city had recently gone bankrupt and the 185-year-old institution was placed under state emergency management. His job was to rebuild it from practically nothing.Within a year and a half, El-Sayed, who has a medical degree and...