Turning anxiety into empathy
Medical school was the first time in my life that I suffered from debilitating anxiety. I was overwhelmed by the volume of information I was
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Mental health: Speak out to break the stigma
Several months ago, I wrote a blog post about my experience with mental illness and how that part of me has shaped my career trajectory
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Medical care: More than just the doctor and patient
How does medical care get delivered? If portrayals of doctor visits in the movies and on television tell us anything, it’s as simple as this:
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Social media: A new tool in the doctor’s bag?
When you Google your doctor’s name, have you ever considered that your doctor could be Googling yours too? A survey at a major urban medical
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Genealogical websites and the future of catching criminals
Last week, a suspect in California’s notorious Golden State Killer cases was captured after decades in hiding. In the end, Joseph James DeAngelo, a former
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CRISPR: A democratizing technology calls for democratic dialogue
By now, you may have read stories about a gene editing technique called CRISPR/Cas9. CRISPR is poised to revolutionize the biological sciences because it’s the
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Comfort care or medical treatment?
Before former first lady Barbara Bush passed away on April 17, 2018, it was widely reported that she had “decided not to seek additional medical
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Zika virus: We dodged a bullet, right?
As the weather turns warm again in Houston, many of us are aware of what’s just around the corner: a hot and humid summer filled
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A ‘right to try,’ but at what cost?
A few weeks ago, my colleague Stephanie Morain wrote a PolicyWise post on attempts to pass so-called “right-to-try” legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Should teens call the shots on the HPV vaccine?
Not too long ago, I sat in a middle school biology classroom and read about Edward Jenner successfully using cowpox material to introduce immunity to
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