Electronic Health Records Don’t Suck
Shawn Martin, the AAFP Senior Vice President of Practice Advancement and Policy at AAFP, recently wrote a blog about how Electronic Health Records (EHRs) suck and about the need for competition…
Category: Healthcare
Doctors Are Paid Too Much
I’m a family doctor and I didn’t become one for the money. I went into medicine because I thought it would be challenging and I knew I’d always have an…
My Journey to Vegetarianism
It started probably six years ago with “happy meat” and “grass-fed beef” and Food Inc. and a vague sense that what I eat matters. It was an inconsistent start, full…
Believing in (and talking about) Healthcare as a Human Right
So many in the US look around right now and don’t like what they see. From the way people treat one another to their own economic situation, it feels like…
Healthcare Reform Harms People of Color
The US Congress has been focused on healthcare reform for the better part of 2017 and once again, the plight of people of color is being forgotten and ignored. I’m a family…
Medicare for All: What’s In a Name?
The Americans most satisfied with the current healthcare system are those with government sponsored health insurance. So why is it that whenever it is proposed that such a system be expanded to the…
I will sit with you awhile
Last week I sat across from one of my students at my desk in the internal medicine office and he told me stories. He told me that he left medical school two…
Posts from Instagram: Work Life
I know many of our blog readers don’t use Instagram, so I’m cross-posting a few entries here. These are stories that all relate to my work life, or my processing…
Summer is Coming
We just started Season 6 of Game of Thrones. Our march through the epic drama somehow marks our time in Tanzania. We started watching in earnest when we moved into…
Work Life in Tanzania
Long story short, we are here to work. Sure we’ll hit up Zanzibar, a safari, and maybe climb a mountain, but we signed up with GHSP to use our medical…