Another year, another flu season. We all think we know how to protect ourselves from the onslaught of fevers, coughs, and sniffles that take our workplaces and schools by storm from October through May. We restock our desks with Purell, remember to take our...
Since the tragic shooting at Columbine, the US has lived through some of the worst acts of domestic terrorism that the developed world has ever seen. From schools to churches to concerts to clubs to army barracks, many places formerly believed to be safe community...
(Continued from Part I) Clearly, patients aren’t using primary care services as much as they should – but can that all be chalked up to convenience? Studies say no. According to an 2015 NPR poll, 20% of surveyed patients choose urgent or emergency care...
You wake up with a cough. It’s not a bad one, you decide, and definitely not enough to keep you home from work. Rent’s due in a week, and you know that missing out on the ten hours of the construction work your boss found you would put you awfully close to...
When we talk about community health care, most people prefer to keep the conversation focused on our achievements and future possibilities. We talk about the local clinics that provide flu shots and screenings to uninsured families, about school health education...
A patient is more than a collection of well-arranged data points or a series of symptoms to be decoded. The rise of medical technology aides such as IBM’s Watson, which can sort through libraries of medical data in a matter of moments, has led some to speculate...
