Medicine Without Borders
Compassion and respect for patients are universal practices. In an overlooked corner room of Webuye County Hospital in western Kenya, I am seeing patients with Dr. Hussein Elias in clinic as part of...
View ArticleAmber Waves
For Alan Muney ’75 MD’78, P’04, photography is all about capturing the art in ordinary life. This majestic image in green and gold, for example, is a close-up of Boston’s steel and glass Hancock Tower....
View ArticleSpecial Guest
Marc K. Siegel, MD ’78, Fox News medical correspondent and associate professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, moderated “The Opioid Crisis: Brown’s Approach to Prevention and Treatment,” a...
View ArticleThe Comfort of Your Living Room
TV shows allow premed students to ponder ethical dilemmas. Is it ethically permissible for parents to refuse vaccinations for their children? The question prompted a heated debate after students in the...
View ArticleMicropractice with a Difference
Is direct primary care the remedy to physician burnout? Hour-long office visits with your primary care provider. The ability to email or text your doctor 24/7. The occasional house call. They’re the...
View ArticleProtecting Patients
The Warren Alpert Medical School leads the country in training students to provide trauma-informed care. Sadie Elisseou ’06 MD’10 calls her next patient’s name into the primary care waiting room on the...
View ArticleHealth on the Hill
A Brown alumna returns to the fold. Vanessa Britto, MD RES’89 F’91 MMSc’96 says she “backed into” college health. Early in her career, she divided her time between her private internal medicine...
View ArticleThe Dealmaking Doctor
With a master’s in healthcare leadership from Brown, an ob/gyn refines cancer care in his hometown. When Pedro Escobar Rodriguez, MD, moved back to his hometown of San Juan in 2013 to take care of his...
View ArticleA Question of Honor
If you happen to have a seatbelt, now would be a good time to put it on. Things started getting bumpy for Mike Zahalsky on Episode 9 of Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers. But first, it was...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of the Coconuts
In a doubleheader, Dr. Mike’s closest ally is double-crossed. This week we were treated to two episodes of Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers—which consequently meant two eliminations. Episode...
View ArticleBurn, Baby, Burn
Alliances are in ashes after a particularly stormy episode of ‘Survivor.’ Some episodes of CBS’s Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers play out like a smooth sea, others like a dangerous ocean...
View ArticleHe’s a Survivor
Alum Mike Zahalsky heads into the finale (mostly) unscathed. Despite the nail-biting suspense of this week’s tribal council on Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, there’s still a doctor in the...
View ArticleEnd of the Line
In Survivor‘s wild finale, urologist Mike Zahalsky doesn’t make the cut. The second half of season 35 of Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers dished out ample erratic behavior, unexpected twists,...
View ArticleDrug Extends Progeria Survival
A therapy originally developed to treat cancer could help children with this rare, fatal disease to live longer. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that an...
View ArticleCenter Stage
How did humans evolve to have reason, consciousness, and free will? An excerpt from Kenneth Miller’s latest book, The Human Instinct. I’m hoping for a clear sky tonight. It’s expected to be the peak of...
View ArticleAlways Faithful
A doctor on deployment treats more than the individual. Looking out across the vast desert, I see a massive wall of sand and dust rapidly approaching our position. This colossal and ominous force of...
View ArticleTell Me About Your Hair
Bad hair day. “From an early age I understood that hair had power,” Rohina Gandhi-Hoffman ’90 MD’94 says. “At the age of 7, my own two ponytails were chopped off very unceremoniously and for a good...
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