Weight Loss and New Year's
On the most common new year's resolution of our time: I don't have the numbers to back this up, but I would wager that losing weight is the most common new year's resolution acros…
About the Blogger
Emily Lu is a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine where she does research on quality improvement in primary care and coordinates numerous community service projects on the Chicago South Side. She also received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago with honors in Biology and a dual degree in Philosophy and Allied Fields. Besides writing for Doctors for America, Emily is a regular guest blogger at KevinMD, maintains a personal blog at Medicine for Change (http://www.medicineforchange.com/), and is an active member of the health care community on Twitter @a_singledrop.
Editor's Note: Any views or opinions presented on this blog are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the hospitals, clinics, and institutions where they work, teach, and study.
Recent Posts
The Moral Test of Health Care
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are at the twilight of life, the aged; and those in the shadows of lif…
Medical Student Advocacy – Too Close to Home?
Since residency application season has started, I’ve noticed interesting quirks in my fourth year classmates' Facebook profiles – first names replaced with nicknames, ext…
Where We Begin
Something I’ve learned about the medical profession from my first year in it: we want to know and do everything. Despite all the warnings from our professors and the pass-fail …
A Doctor's Duty to Patient Advocacy
I've believed for a long time that advocacy was an incredibly important component of any plan to change the world. This argument for systematic changes in policy has come up again an…
Don’t Blame Medical Students for the Decline in Primary Care
There is a lot of speculation about why there are fewer and fewer primary care physicians joining the workforce every year. Some have focused on the choices that medical students are…
