Region 8 Spotlight
This fall, The University of Arizona COM-Phoenix’s AMWA branch is screening a video on the film “Branded,” a 45-minute documentary film about the realities of sex trafficking in Phoenix. Sex […]
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The gift of a “bad patient”
Yesterday I received a call from a friend – a truly brilliant person who takes great responsibility for everything in her life. She researches nutrition and eats only healthy foods, […]
Humanizing Medicine: The Small Details
“Angelina Gomez,” the medical assistant hollers out to the crowded waiting room. As always, I cringe when I hear this. It sounds so harsh, so cattle-like. I know that the […]
A Female Attending
In the brief time between finishing step 1 and starting my third year, I thought about my first clerkship a lot. My father had bought me a book called “Surgery […]
But don’t you want to get better?
It is such a surreal experience walking into a patient’s hospital room for the first time. After asking him or her about personal experiences and medical history, you need to […]
AWHS Artifact of the Month: Near East Relief Effort
This highlight is part of a series to illuminate the advancement of medical women in the last century in order to show where we have been, how far we have […]
Clinic Spotlight: Clinic Nepal
Clinic Nepal supports over 50,000 people in Meghauli, Chitwan District, Nepal through different projects, holistically providing basic health care, education, livelihoods and more. Hari Bhandary, founder of Clinic Nepal, grew up […]
AWHS Clinic Spotlight: Health Care Network, Inc.
Health Care Network, Inc. is a non-profit agency that provides free-low cost health care to residents of Racine County who are medically uninsured and have a limited income. Services are provided […]
AWHS Clinic Spotlight: The Vine Trust
The Vine Trust is an international non-profit volunteering charity that provides a healthcare service for over 100,000 patients annually in Peru through two medical ships that operate along the Amazon River. […]
Artifact of the Month: House of the Good Neighbor
During World War I, the American Women’s Hospitals Service in conjunction with the Red Cross helped to establish a clinic in France for a social services home that helped children […]