The Knowledge Gap That Could Cost You Your Life: How Paywalled Science Keeps Doctors in the Dark
When critical medical research sits behind expensive journal paywalls, the consequences extend far beyond inconvenience—they can be measured in delayed diagnoses, outdated treatments, and preventable deaths. Across the United States, practicing physicians are routinely cut off from the very studies that could reshape how they care for patients. The open science movement is fighting to change that, one liberated paper at a time.