HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL PRIMARY CARE REVIEW

Saving Lives Slowly

May 27th, 2020

By: Naomi Clancy, MD

 

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

May 26th, 2020

By: April Lockley, DO and Linda Prine, MD

 

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

May 21st, 2020

By: Natalie Krumdieck, MD and Honor MacNaughton, MD

 

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

May 20th, 2020

By: Gaurab Basu, MD, MPH and María Belen Power, MPP

 

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

May 19th, 2020

By: Tatiana Patsimas, MD

 

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

May 18th, 2020

By: Russell Phillips, MD

 

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

May 15th, 2020

By: Elsa Lindgren

 

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

May 14th, 2020

By: Scott Podolsky, MD

 

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

May 13th, 2020

By: Jim Recht, MD and Jon Wesley Boyd, MD, PhD

 

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

May 12th, 2020

By: Jeremy Stricsek, MD

 

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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