Health - The American Dream or just a Dream?
“If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark.” Richard Wilkinson As a physician and epidemiologist, I am perpetually thinking about how to im…
About the Blogger
Teeb Al-Samarrai is a physician and epidemiologist with interests in refugee health, global health education, and the social and structural determinants of health in the US and abroad. She attended Yale Medical School where she also trained in internal medicine. Most recently she completed training as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in New York City and now works at the California Department of Health. She also serves as Assistant Director of the Center for Global Health at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.
Recent Posts
The paradox of choice
In the debate over health care reform the issue of choice is often brought up. I’m not referring to a women’s right to choose or the birth control controversies but…
Give Me Health or Give Me Death!
I am often fascinated by the simplified dichotomies and ironies of the health care discussion. Some argue that the individual mandate infringes on individual rights yet one could arg…
Removing the Pump Handle
Frederick Douglass By Robert Hayden When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth; when it belongs …
Inequality in Healthcare
Leading up to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, each year, I am reminded of his quote, “of all the forms of inequality and injustice, healthcare is the mo…
The Occupy Movement and Health for Everyone
The Occupy movement began almost three months ago in New York City and now seems to be everywhere. The rallying outcry from Occupy has been “We are the 99%” but m…
Slow Medicine
I’ve been attending a class called ‘Edible Education’ about our global food system and it’s had me thinking about how the Slow Food movement is relevant to ou…
