by Bridget Garland | Oct 23, 2020 | Climate Change, Health Disparities, Home Page, Native American Health
With an ongoing pandemic, a revolution calling for racial justice, and a critical upcoming Presidential election, it was trying for millions of people to wake up to a gray and ominous blanket of smoke encasing West Coast cities and towns. In late-July, massive... by Phuoc Le, MD | Mar 17, 2020 | Covid, Health Disparities, Native American Health
Authored by Phuoc Le, MD, Connie Chan, and Brooke Warren Since the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, we have been changing our daily lives to protect the highest-risk populations: older adults and people with... 
by Brooke Warren | Dec 17, 2019 | Health Disparities
Authored by Phuoc Le, M.D., Connie Chan, and Brooke Warren I recently took care of Rosaria[1], a cheerful 60-year-old woman who came in for chronic joint pain. She grew up in rural Mexico, but came to the US thirty years ago to work in the strawberry fields of... by Brooke Warren | Nov 20, 2019 | Health Disparities
Authored by Phuoc Le, M.D. and Brooke Warren As clinicians, we’ve all treated patients whose physical symptoms are, when enough time and space are allowed for patients to share their stories, ultimately found to be manifestations of historical trauma. We typically... 
by Sam Aptekar | Oct 22, 2019 | Climate Change, Health Disparities
Authored by Phuoc Le, M.D. and Sam Aptekar In the last fifteen years, we have witnessed dozens of natural disasters affecting our most vulnerable patients, from post-hurricane victims in Haiti to drought and famine refugees in Malawi. The vast majority of these... 
by Sam Aptekar | Jul 19, 2019 | Health Disparities, Healthcare
Authored by Phuoc Le, M.D. and Sam Aptekar “Kijan ou ye? How are you?” I asked my patient, a fifty-five year-old Haitian-American woman living in Dorchester, Massachusetts. It was 2008. I had been her primary care doctor for two years and was working with her to... 
