Black Lives and White Coats
I was once told by a classmate, “You know, if I said that white lives matter, I would get into trouble, don’t you think?”…
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Starting a New Dialogue
The past week in our country’s politics has left many of us stunned. Whatever our personal opinions, there had been a pretty clear idea…
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Asking the Uncomfortable Questions
Put yourself in the shoes of a patient. How often are you asked about your smoking and drinking behaviors? I think that I get…
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Starting from Within
SUPPORTING OUR PATIENTS BY SUPPORTING EACH OTHER Since my Scholarly Project involves transgender health, I routinely peruse some of the new research that comes…
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Why Do You Roc Your Mocs?
“53….53…that’s not even enough to make a full class” is what I thought to myself as I talked with another Native American medical student. After…
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Shattering the Myth of the Model Minority
No, but where are you REALLY from? Unlike some of their friends who sent their children to visit relatives almost every summer, my parents…
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I Won’t Be a Bystander. Will You?
I like what is straightforward—who doesn’t? However, I also enjoy facing complex situations: what can compare to the satisfaction we feel when we are…
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Ethics and Social Justice
Earlier this semester, the Class of 2018 sat down to their first ethics lecture of the year as Dr. David Beyda introduced the complex ethics of social justice and the distribution of resources.
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Prisons: Our New Psychiatric Hospitals
“From the 1870s until the 1970s, it was widely assumed in the United States that mentally ill individuals did not belong in prisons and…
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