“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…
Upon stepping off the plane into Tegucigalpa airport, the surreal nature of my situation hit me. I had just traveled for 7 some hours with 36 people I barely knew, into a country one month before I couldn’t place on a map, to do work I have only imagined myself doing to get me through…
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was jointly awarded to Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young for characterizing the circadian rhythm at a level of molecular operation. Although the concept of biological clocks was well understood, pioneering work lead by these researchers in the 1980’s and 1990’s provided the first…
Since the mid 20th century, advances in medicine have allowed doctors to save patients from terminal diseases that eat away at life-giving organs— diseases that had previously been death sentences. From the first kidney transplant in 1954 to the first full face transplant in 2010, the boundaries of medicine have been continually pushed forward towards…