Health Reform and Women's Access to Care
As a female physician-in-training, there is no moral issue as fraught with anxiety and self-reflection as the one of abortion. As we enter our journey into medicine, we swear to leav…
About the Blogger
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Carol J. Duh is a medical student at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine where she served as chapter president of the American Medical Women's Association, winning the National Heller Award of Excellence during her tenure. She was past chair of Women's Health Week at Vanderbilt, where she ran a cervical cancer prevention program targeting displaced women from local Nashville shelters. Her writing has been published in the Washington Blade, the Star Ledger, the Nashville Free Press, and she was a finalist in the McSweeney’s National Writing Contest in the summer of 2009. During the 2008 election, she served as State Director for the Obama for America Health Policy Committee Speechwriting Team. She likes sailing, shoes, and is a regular performer in the Vagina Monologues. Her undergraduate degree is from Yale University.
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