There are few things in this world as reassuring and satisfying as the moment when, after shuffling through the crowded corridors of a stadium concourse, you catch your first glimpse of baseball field before a game. Everything about it, from… Read More ›
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Who’s Afraid of The Zika Virus? How We Perceive Threat With Infectious Disease
My fellow Americans, there is a new disease among us. It has only recently begun to make its way to our country from Latin America, but it will surely spread farther. Discovered in Sub-Saharan Africa shortly after World War II,… Read More ›
In Burma, Hope & AIDS Medications Hard to Come By
Of the 240,000 people in Burma (Myanmar) living with HIV, roughly half are in desperate need of life saving ART medications. Most of them will never get them and for many of those who do, it will have come too… Read More ›
A Doctor’s Call
My grandfather was one of the last doctors in Cincinnati, Ohio to make house calls. I can still remember walking through the front door of my grandparents’ condo and seeing his medical man-purse—the ubiquitous black leather doctor’s bag—laying on the… Read More ›