Global Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy The World Bank Group has partnered with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) to release six regional reports: http://www.healthmetricsandevaluation.org/gbd/publications/policy-reports […]
At a recent conference, I was speaking about communication in the healthcare setting and suggested that the major premise of Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, has a lot to tell us about how […]
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 […]
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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]