October 2025

In health care, it’s easy to get caught up in labels—diagnoses, insurance status, political affiliation, even the shorthand you sometimes use to describe your patients. But people are never just labels.

 

At Doctors for America, we believe the real work of medicine and advocacy begins when we see patients not as categories, but as human beings with hopes, fears, families, and futures. Whether it’s access to contraception, affordable insulin, or evidence-based information about vaccines, our commitment is the same: caring for people, not defining them.

 

Doctors care for patients across racial, socioeconomic, gender, geographic, and political spectra; you can give voice to diverse perspectives and needs that proposed policies are meant to address. Physicians can speak with unique authority to the core values of medical professionalism: caring for all patients—fairly and equitably.

 

Labels divide. Care unites. Let’s keep building a health system that puts people—whole people—at the center.

 

💙 Join us in this mission. When doctors come together, you can shift the conversation from labels to lives, from division to dignity, from categories to care. By becoming a paid member of Doctors for America, you help amplify the values of compassion, equity, and justice that define your profession. Together, we can build a healthier, more united future for all. 

Reproductive care conversations can be complex and personal. Join our two part training to learn how to approach them with openness, empathy, and compassion—building skills to listen, understand, and engage with care. It is time to reframe conversations around abortion.

Part 1 (Asynchronous Option)

Managing acute pain in individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD) presents unique challenges that are often compounded by stigma and bias in healthcare settings. This session will provide clinicians with practical knowledge and strategies to ensure compassionate, evidence-based care for patients living with OUD.

 

By addressing bias and reinforcing sound clinical practices, this session equips providers to deliver equitable, effective pain management while supporting recovery and reducing harm.

Food safety is more than a regulatory issue — it’s a foundational public health concern that directly affects patient outcomes, health equity, and trust in our institutions. As federal policies evolve and new challenges emerge, clinicians have a powerful role to play in shaping safer, more transparent food systems.

 

Join us for a timely conversation with two leading experts in food safety and regulation.