Racial Justice is Good Medicine
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“The way police is killing black men is the way doctors are killing black women… but y’all are NOT ready for that conversation tho.” –Dime, MPH Like many medical professionals, when I read this Tweet (above), I was hurt and … Continue reading

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The Echo Chamber of the True Believer: Anti-Vaxxers, Magical Thinking, and Other Disasters
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There is an article that I suggest ought to be read as widely as possible. Underneath the anti-vaxxer exterior lies much scientific misinformation, compounded by phobias, conspiracy theories, and general hubris that views those who take science and medicine to … Continue reading

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Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 4 – Day 3… family as a verb
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others … Continue reading

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Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 3 – Day 2… why DO families matter?
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others … Continue reading

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Bioethics, Family, and Summer School: Part 2 – Day 1 is intellectually thrilling
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a series of short blog posts about the bioethics summer school in Groningen, the Netherlands, which is focused on the role of family in the delivery and consumption of health care. Look for others … Continue reading

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The poetry of hands-on healing, and the failure to do so
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In 2013, Rafael Campo–then associate professor of medicine at Harvard–won the Hippocrates Open International Prize for Poetry and Medicine.  First, let us be grateful that there is such a thing, a thing to draw beauty out of what isn’t always. … Continue reading

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