Reluctant to prescribe probiotics? Gut health, safety and ethics
“First, do no harm.” I can think of no more important principle as I examine a tiny, fragile newborn in the neonatal intensive care unit
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Policywise
Healthcare and social media: Tool for good or recipe for disaster?
The internet has invaded almost every aspect of our lives, for better or for worse. With the increased accessibility of the internet, there has also
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Equity in organ transplantation: Are we there yet?
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) released its latest policy updates on July 13, 2023, that aimed to improve equity in liver allocation. This update improved
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Eye’ve heard enough: today’s physician shortage
Two years ago, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) published a report that predicted a shortage of 134,000 physicians in the United States by
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Hate speech in healthcare
Hate speech and microaggressions from patients directed toward clinicians in healthcare settings are unfortunately a common occurrence. Hate speech is defined as verbal or nonverbal
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When pregnancy causes stroke: the risk we must talk more about
In March of 2020, just as the world entered lockdown, I experienced a personal loss: a friend died following a stroke. She was 30 years
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Story time in medicine
One of my favorite questions to ask parents during an initial patient care encounter has nothing to do with a chief complaint, review of systems
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Limited access to outpatient child psychiatric services in major U.S. cities during COVID-19
In the midst of a pediatric mental health crisis, we conducted a study, along with other Baylor College of Medicine medical students and psychiatry residents,
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Is there hidden meaning in “madness”?
Rationality typically occupies a hallowed space in both healthcare policymaking and individual medical treatment. However, recent scholarship and activism show there may be unappreciated value
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The importance of a research internship
How does an inquisitive undergraduate public health major find herself conducting bioethics research at one of the leading research institutions in the country? With a
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