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Alison Heru, M.D., interim chair and professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Denver, had a 60-year-old patient, Mr. D, who had been diagnosed with end-stage lung disease. He was on the transplant list, but the nurse on duty reported he was angry and exhibiting…
The 80th meeting of the Kane King Dodek Obstetrical Society, held May 17, was filled with excitement, yet also a tone of remembrance. The Kane King Dodek Obstetrical Society, a professional organization honoring medical students who excel in obstetrics and gynecology, was founded in 1937 by…
The words of Pablo Neruda, Rumi, Maya Angelou, and even Shel Silverstein drifted through the crowd of George Washington University (GW) and VA health care professionals at the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center Library on April 24. All had gathered for the Third Annual Poetry Fest, held in…
The tale he’d been asked to tell, said Deepak L. Bhatt, M.D., M.P.H., executive director of interventional cardiovascular programs at the Heart and Vascular Center at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, was about Symplicity HTN-3, really “a story of…
On March 16 and 17, Raja Mazumder, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry and molecular medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and his team, including technical writer and research assistant Amanda Bell and research associate Charles Hadley King, hosted a public workshop…
Ashtin Jeney, a third-year medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, has one phrase that sums up her devotion to advocacy: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.
Many of those fleeing the destruction take an arduous route out of Syria, traveling hundreds of miles on foot across Turkey to the Aegean Sea. From the Turkish coast, the refugees board overcrowded boats for a risky water-crossing to reach Greek islands Chios and Lesbos, and then it’s on to the…
“Let me tell you about ‘Robbie’,” said Kofi Essel, M.D. ’11, pediatrician at Children’s National Health System, painting a composite of obesity disease and a typical patient group in his opening remarks for the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) Clinical Public Health Summit on…
With assembly line precision, a large group of GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) students measured, poured, and weighed dry ingredients — soy, vitamin powder, dehydrated vegetables, long-grain rice — into plastic bags for Nourishment Now. As they sealed the bags and packed them…
Shane Snowdon and her partner visited many medical offices to seek care for their young son’s chronic illness. The reaction of health care professionals to the couple had ranged from dismissive to impatient, particularly when they saw “father” scratched out on the intake form and “mother”…