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Opinion: Readers respond to essays on philanthropy and nursing schools, opioid overdoses, and more
First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and maybe even provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion …