Comprehensive Sex Education as Violence Prevention
It’s #SexEdForAll month, yet most people still believe sex education is just about sex. But it’s so much more than[...]
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Saving Lives Slowly
Today, I am saving lives slowly. This is less satisfying than the days I am in full personal protective equipment (PPE)[...]
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Abortion During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The 1973 Roe v. Wade United States (US) Supreme Court case resulted in the historic decision that the US Constitution[...]
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Contraception During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We know that many barriers to accessing safe, equitable, and effective contraception exist at individual,[...]
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Reflections on COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, Environmental Justice and Health Equity
We are living in an unprecedented time in which an unimaginable global pandemic has upended our way of life. Our[...]
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Pediatric Health Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic
While knowledge of COVID-19 transmission and its clinical manifestations is rapidly expanding, many questions remain[...]
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Protecting Those Who Protect Us
Health care workers, including residents, have stepped into the breach of the COVID-19 pandemic, and they have done so[...]
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Experiencing Rural Family Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic
I arrived in Valdez, Alaska in mid-February as a visiting third year medical student and was quickly immersed in[...]
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“Some New Kind of Infection or Plague:" The 1918 Flu Pandemic & COVID-19
A humbling sense of medical uncertainty. Tensions between public health concerns versus economic consequences for[...]
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Immigrant Health, COVID-19, and the Duty to Care
Three months ago, the novel coronavirus arrived in the Boston area. It struck first in wealthy communities of[...]
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In Times of Crisis, Family Medicine Rises to the Challenge
We are all looking forward to the day when COVID-19 no longer dominates the news cycle, nor our lives. The ongoing[...]
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HMS Family Medicine Alumni Spotlight: Kelsey Leonardsmith
The Harvard Home for Family Medicine builds upon the growing community of HMS family medicine students, residents, and[...]
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Caring for Women Who are Homeless During COVID-19
We doctors don’t like to feel helpless. It’s a real comeuppance when we are faced with an unknown entity so vast, so[...]
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The Coronavirus Does Discriminate: How Social Conditions are Shaping the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part of this developing crisis is very well known: On December 31, 2019, Chinese officials reported a cluster of[...]
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Boston MedFlight Playing a Vital Role in New England’s COVID-19 Response
Boston MedFlight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that for 35 years has provided critical care transport to[...]
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A Second, Silent Pandemic: Sexual Violence in the time of COVID-19
What happens when “safer-at-home” doesn’t apply to everyone?
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