Carol Duh-Leong, MD, MPP and Laura Marcus, MD This past summer in our primary care clinic in the South Bronx, the most important anticipatory guidance we gave was not to take a…
While the Affordable Care Act ends the era of denying people with pre-existing conditions access to health care, it allows insurance companies to charge tobacco users up to 50% more …
This month, instead of dashing to a clinic or to the wards every morning to find my patients, I found myself zigzagging through the streets of Boston to halfway houses, racetracks, a…
This month I am rotating through the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene at the Primary Care Information Project. This NYC Mayoral Initiative seeks to improve the quality of …
At Doctors for America, we believe that coverage is good medicine. Challenge #2 in enrollment is the 3,600,000 people who will be left out in states that do not accept Medicaid expan…
You're a medical student, and your life is all about answering tough questions on the spot. In school, professors pelt you with complicated questions on anatomy, pathology, and micro…
  This summer, I stared at this graph every day as I studied for Step 2 of my USMLE boards. It describes the spread of possible board scores along with the specialty in which…
“Don’t you think that before entering the Hunger Games, you’d want to make sure that you’re insured?”   “You know, Starbuck, you’re s…
“First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thi…
