Jessica Pirkle

Physicians stand at an exciting intersection of clinical care, research, public policy, and leadership. One of their key clinical tasks is to generate an…

A few weeks into the pandemic, amidst a haze of CDC press conferences, Tiger King memes, and toilet paper shortages, the University of Arizona…

As the medical field employs an increasingly holistic framework, services like music therapy seem like a natural fit for addressing the emotional elements we…

The following is derived from a phone interview with Jim Kwasiborski on September 4, 2020. Jim Kwasiborski didn’t initially set out to work in…

As physicians, it is imperative that we are aware of the interplay between social determinants of health and medical care and that we are…

Since the last issue of The Differential, we have seen the distant specter of a novel coronavirus strain transform into the COVID-19 pandemic, a…

Midwives once played a prominent role in American peripartum care, but receded into the background as hospital birth became the norm. In recent years,…