By Nina Shevzov-Zebrun
Peer Reviewed
“How much would I have to pay you to lick the subway floor?”
“How much money would it take for you to wear an inflatable T-Rex costume to school?”
Growing up, my sister …
By Nina Shevzov-Zebrun
Peer Reviewed
“How much would I have to pay you to lick the subway floor?”
“How much money would it take for you to wear an inflatable T-Rex costume to school?”
Growing up, my sister …
By Nishanth Srivaths Iyengar, MD and David M. Oshinsky, MD
Peer Reviewed
Federal agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) publish exhaustive public health guidelines and goals, but state …
By Mariela Mitre
Peer Reviewed
I was born in the late 1980s, a relatively fortunate time in Albanian history, considering that Enver Hoxha (1908-1985), the most xenophobic communist dictator of the Eastern European bloc, had recently …
By Monica Gupta, MD and Alice Tang, MD
Peer reviewed
Physician burnout is a phenomenon that is becoming recognized as widespread in both trainees and in practicing doctors. Long taxing hours, insurmountable educational debt, the burden of daily …
By Ajay Prakash, MD
Peer Reviewed
Discussions about healthcare policy have played a central role throughout the presidential primaries. It is incredibly important for healthcare providers to have an understanding of healthcare’s current …
By Karen Kan, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last March, the Department of Health and Human Services released a set of proposed regulations that would govern Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), bringing ACOs back to the …
By Lucy Doyle, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ten years ago, I found myself in a village in rural central China that was ravaged by AIDS. Villagers had contracted the disease through a contaminated blood-selling program. …
Commentary by Vlad Fridman, MD
$50,000. This is the price of a new (and cheap) model BMW, and also a price the US government is willing to spend to prolong your medically …