<span itemprop="author">Jennifer Shaer, MD

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In memory of all the fathers lost to COVID-19

In April, I lost my dad to COVID-19, and this Father’s Day is going to be very difficult.  As I was thinking about this, it occurred to me that there are many people out there suffering the same fate.  Each death is not just a statistic.  Each number r…

A physician awakens to racism in America

Until recently, I didn’t really understand the meaning behind the Black Lives Matter movement.  I was one of those people who felt, “of course black lives matter, all lives matter.”  I mean, that’s exactly why I became a doctor in the first place.  To …