Even before birth, the human mind is teeming with activity. A single touch, taste or sound can set off a chain reaction in the brain, exciting hundreds of thousands of neurons. These neurons make up networks that are responsible for everything from reaching for a glass of water to picturing a still lake. Filled with…
“A man who was hospitalized with COVID-19 for 62 days received a $1.1 million medical bill” at the end of his hospital stay [3]. The COVID pandemic has exposed devastating flaws in the US healthcare system. Not only is going to hospitals a risk to one’s health due to the risk of contracting COVID, but…
Going to the hospital is almost always a stressful process—navigating through the labyrinthine hallways, filling out infinite nit-picky forms, processing the medical jargon from test results. And for many Americans, this is all done in their native language—English. But for many others, English is not their most comfortable language. It’s bulky, unfamiliar, haphazard. None of…
“Wait,” the nurse says, poking her head through the curtain into my room in the ER, “I haven’t told them yet.” My heart drops and my teeth start to chatter; this must mean my chest and back pain weren’t as benign as I’d thought. “Well,” the doctor who had been cut off by the nurse,…
After George Floyd’s murder by the hands of four Minneapolis police officers, the impact of systemic racism in American society has become clearer. To spread awareness, many healthcare activists on social media use the #whitecoats4blacklives to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement and to bring to light the healthcare disparities between white…
*All of this information is only accurate based on information until April 8, 2020.* SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has affected over 2.6 million people worldwide. Most current evidence suggests that the virus was transmitted from bats to pangolins and eventually to humans. The medium of transmission was most likely bodily fluid contact…
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For decades, science has advanced due to the impending need for increasing security, medical techniques, and communication systems in the military. A significant portion of our army funding is funneled towards the advancement of medical techniques in the hopes that despite a lack of advanced medical equipment in the field, patient lives can be saved….
An alarmingly small fraction of physicians are familiar with the concepts of evolutionary medicine. Why? Because evolutionary medicine is rarely included, especially in the form of full courses treating the topic as a basic science, in medical schools. Nearly half, 48%, of North American medical school curriculum deans stated that they “anticipated igniting controversy at…
What if I told you that your patient’s treatment could involve no drugs or hospital visits at all? Dance movement therapy (DMT) is officially defined as the “psychotherapeutic use of movement and dance to support intellectual, emotional, and motor functions of the body” by Psychology Today. In other words, it is a means to engage…