The White Coat
It’s July again in Phoenix. For most, this just signals our yearly retreat into the great indoors as the 110 °F weather scorches the…
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How Are Babies Made?
“How are babies made?” That may be a question to give any parent of a five-year-old palpitations on the spot. However, after lectures about…
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Registered Dietitian Highlight: Karen Kulakowski
Hoping to find a registered dietitian to interview, I emailed The Arizona Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Within minutes, I received an email that…
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Direct Primary Care: Better Healthcare, Happier Physicians
Last week, Florida joined a growing list of states passing legislation that recognizes a novel approach to healthcare: direct primary care (DPC). What is…
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CRISPR/Cas9 Update: Clinical Trials and Research Applications
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)/Cas9 is a gene editing technique that utilizes a viral vector to insert segments of viral DNA to…
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TextRad: Analyzing Tissue Heterogeneity
When presented with the opportunity to select a scholarly project, I knew that I wanted it to involve radiology. Knowing this, I immediately went…
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Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day . . .
“Those who write and talk about the dream of global health equity can make people think, but can not make them care. It is…
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The Heart of It All
I wrote this piece to reconcile my feelings and thoughts about choosing a specialty as I have moved through the first two years of…
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Medical Ethics: March Response and May Question
March Question In March, we looked at the case of a terminal patient without an advanced directive. Here’s a reminder: On a breezy March…
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Mistakes Happen
It’s late in the afternoon, and you have one more patient to see before you end your shift. You gently knock on the door…
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