It’s time for some good news and hope about life during and after COVID-19. You may be frantically racing from room to room in your house, and from role to role to keep everything together during this unprecedented time. You’re a doctor, pa…
Category: Infectious disease
Blowing the whistle on health care fraud: the rewards and protections of doing the right thing
Fraud in the health care industry is a fact of life. In 2016 alone, the federal government estimated that improper payments by Medicare and Medicaid totaled about $95 billion. And that’s only a single year’s amount for just two of the government’s ma…
COVID-19: Why are blacks in America are more likely to die?
“We are all in this crisis together, but we are not all experiencing this crisis in the same way.” That was how Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot described the jarring data from Chicago’s public health agency that showed black residents a…
Love in the time of COVID-19
COVID-19 changes everything — even, or especially, love. It demands that we love differently and in new ways. For me, this is what #loveinthetimeofcovid19 looks like. My husband, Lunan, and I are both doctors. Lunan, a urologist, is completing his fina…
When COVID-19 becomes blinding to other conditions
The coronavirus pandemic has incited the necessary fear amongst the public and health care workers. This fear is a positive driver of social distancing and other precautionary measures that assist in protecting health care workers and patients. However…
How COVID-19 changed our fellowship interview process for the better
The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing medical practice across the country by allowing telemedicine reimbursement, where it was previously limited, and by leveraging video conferencing technology to conduct business and educational meetings in…
How COVID-19 changed our fellowship interview process for the better
The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally changing medical practice across the country by allowing telemedicine reimbursement, where it was previously limited, and by leveraging video conferencing technology to conduct business and educational meetings in…
To volunteer or to stay home? A medical student’s daily dilemma during COVID-19.
Wake up. Turn the coffee pot on. Stretch. Read about the latest news. Over the past several years, this same sequence of events has served as the start to my day, and it has continued to be my routine over the past few weeks. However, this early mornin…
Turning to prayer during the pandemic
Photos of health care providers in prayerful stances are being shared on the web. From nurses on helipads at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to ER teams at Jackson South Medical Center, people have been photographed on their knees, arms outstretc…
The individuals who inspire this resident physician in COVID-19 era
As a resident physician keen on academia and research, I have many doctors and scientists who I aspire to be more like. As a future-driven person, I am constantly awed by various inspirational, well-educated, and even better-poised men and women who ha…
