Your employer can tell you to smoke outside. Can they tell you not to smoke at all?
13Feb11
Thank You for Not Smoking Redux
17Jan11
Mississippi Learning
What the Mississippi “kidney sisters” teach us about politics and medicine.
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Posted in advocacy, charity, health disparities, patient experience, transplant
Tagged coercion, living donors, Mississippi, prison
Tagged coercion, living donors, Mississippi, prison
8Aug10
Doctors & Advocacy
When I made the choice to be a doctor at a medical school I wasn’t sure exactly what ramifications (beside teaching the next generations of doctors) my job would have. It became clear to me after a year that being an academic afforded me many privileges: of course, mentoring and teaching relationships, but also the [...]
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Posted in advocacy, health care reform, health disparities, medical education
Tagged essays
Tagged essays
14Feb10
Gift of Life?
One of the joys of practicing at an academic center is that I get to do many different things in my job. The foundation of my work is seeing my own patients in a large group (more than thirty doctors!) primary care practice. Two months a year, I take my turn rotating on the hospital [...]