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Some Essays

An urgent search for an Alzheimer’s cure in the mountains of Colombia

The Washington Post Book Review

Telehealth Technology Taught Me to Be a Better Doctor

The New York Times

What Doctors Like Me Know About Americans’ Health Care Anger

The New York Times

A Daring Approach to Mental Illness

The New York Times

America Is Doubling Down on Sewer Surveillance

The Atlantic

The Big #MeToo Moment for Doctors Is Finally Here

The New York Times

In the E.R., Violence Comes With the Job

The New York Times  

Plagues have always engineered history, but we can change that

The Washington Post Book Review

The trouble with punishing health-care workers who make mistakes

The Washington Post

Healthy young people are grabbing vaccine doses. It looks unfair. It’s fine.

The Washington Post Sunday Outlook

At the Front Lines of Coronavirus, Turning to Social Media

The New York Times

Choosing to Be Vulnerable With My Patients

The New York Times Sunday Review

My Patient’s Sisters

The New York Times

A Transgender Learning Gap in the Emergency Room

The New York Times

At the Frontline of the Opioid Epidemic, but Unable to Help

The New York Times

Seeking Painkillers in the Emergency Room

The New York Times

The Cultural Contours of Saving a Life

The New York Times

Even as a Doctor With Decent Insurance, I Had Difficulty Entering the Healthcare System

The Atlantic

A Shot Against Malaria

The New Yorker

How to make it easier for health workers to volunteer in crises

The Los Angeles Times

Sound alarm on health risks

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Doctor is In: Why J. Colby Smith is the Best Piercer in New York

Brooklyn Magazine

A Mostly Quiet Car

The New York Times Metropolitan Diary

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