Vishal Khetpal

- The Song of Our Scars: Exploring the Social and Scientific Fundamentals of Chronic Pain (book review for BMJ Medical Humanities Blog), 8/23/2022

- A Doctor’s Case for a Universal Basic Income, 6/21/21

– A Medical Student in Gaza Tells Us What She’s Seeing, 11/1/2023
– The Colonoscopy is an American Rite of Passage. Should it Be?, 10/24/2022
– The Chilling Fate of Nurse Who Accidentally Killed a Patient, 4/26/2022
– Dr. Venture Capital, 3/2/2022
– Just Say It: The Health Care System Has Collapsed, 9/7/2021
– What it’s Like to Be a Doctor in Unvaccinated America, 7/27/2021
– The U.S. Needs to Stop Hoarding Vaccines Immediately, 3/12/2021
– Why Obese People Should Get COVID-19 Vaccine Priority, 11/30/2020
– Many Medical Students Are Willing to Go to the Front Lines. But We Need Pay and Protection., 4/2/2020
– The Latest Crop of Instagram Influencers? Medical Students., 11/29/2018
– Improving Diversity in Med School Needs to Start Well Before Matriculation, 8/22/2018
– FIFA's Rule Changes Won't Solve Soccer's Concussion Problem, 6/14/2018
– Could Pharmacists Help Fix Health Care?, 12/7/2017
– We Have to Ration Health Care, 10/13/2017
– America Should Adapt New Zealand’s Method of Handling Medical Malpractice Cases, 7/25/2017

- Amid a Pandemic, a Health Care Algorithm Shows Promise and Peril, 5/27/2021 (co-authored; republished at Fast Company and Salon)
- The Solution to Soaring Drug Prices? A Public Option for Pills., 2/27/2020 (republished at Route Fifty, Salon, and Doximity Op-Med)
- The Uncertain Future of Safety-Net Hospitals, 9/26/2019
- The Worrisome Rise of Direct-to-Consumer Medicine, 3/28/2019 (republished at Fast Company, Daily Beast, and NPR)

– Compounded semaglutide is an ill-defined public health crisis, 9/13/2024
– Testing medical students is big business. I see it as extortion., 3/20/2020
– Medicare for all? Not for us!, 10/27/2017 (co-authored)
– Take politics out of healthcare before reforming it, 11/21/2016 (co-authored)
– Do ethics fall by the wayside when doctors become pundits?, 10/5/2016

– R.I. may need to reopen Memorial, 3/18/2020
– Barring panhandlers solves nothing, 3/5/2017
– Trump wrong on Clinton Foundation, 9/3/2016

– Netflix’s ‘Diagnosis’ Shows What Doctor Visits May Look Like in the Future, 10/1/2019
– Why Do We Have Health Insurance Companies Anyway? , 10/13/2017
– Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids Should Pay a 'Sin Tax', 5/10/2017
– Making College Free Would Save Lives–And Money, 3/17/2017
– Trump is Ruining Our Health on a Global Scale Now, 2/1/2017

- As COVID worsens, don’t forget about the opioid crisis, 12/13/2020 (co-authored)
- The vision forward on health care should be bipartisan, 8/23/2017 (co-authored)
- How Trump counties should instruct health reform, 4/17/2017 (co-authored)

– St. Louis Should Have Starred in the Second Presidential Debate, 10/17/2016 (co-authored)
– Brexit Foreshadows America's Political Future, 6/28/2016
– What Bernie Sanders Isn't Telling You About Single-Payer Healthcare, 1/28/2016
– As Ebola Leaves Africa, Why are Resources Leaving Too?, 10/22/2015
– Memo to the GOP: Anti-Science Rhetoric is Ignorant, Not Conservative, 9/28/2015
– How America Should Fix FIFA, 6/18/2015
– The Rise of Homo Auxilium?, 1/31/2015
– Seeking Kairos: How We Need to Rethink College, 9/11/2014

– Opinion: Direct-To-Consumer Medicine Can Be Quick and Discreet, But What’s Lost?, 4/4/2019 (republished from Undark)

– How a largely untested AI algorithm crept into hundreds of hospitals, 3/29/2019 (republished from Undark)
– Digital medicine startups are booming. But what are the side effects?, 3/29/2019 (republished from Undark)

– A Public Option for Generic Drugs., 3/6/2020 (republished from Undark)

– The Solution to Soaring Drug Prices? A Public Option for Pills, 2/27/2020 (republished from Undark)