HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL PRIMARY CARE REVIEW

Stories

The Various Faces of Trauma

July 1st, 2022

By: Samra Zafar

 

Trigger warning: Parts of this piece may be triggering. Please take the time and space to look after yourself and seek[...]

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Advocacy

Inspire: Helping Families with Asthma Catch Their Breath

June 16th, 2022

By: Jacob Bjork, BA, Luca Bertozzi, BA, Puja Sasankan, BS, Milan Abbi, BSPH, and Anna Hu, BS

 

“I did whatever I needed to for my child to get the proper services… you are the professionals, but I’m the mom.”

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Advocacy

Centering the Woman in Maternity Care

April 12th, 2022

By: Ketura’h Edwards-Robinson, MSN

 

Few human experiences match the intensity of stress, pain, exertion, and emotional turmoil as labor. The mortality risk[...]

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Stories

Responsible Medical Engagement in the Developing World

January 15th, 2022

By: Umaru Barrie

 

In July 2018, I engaged in a four-week research and service-learning trip in Buhoma, Kanungu District, Uganda. The trip[...]

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Knock-Knock: Our Ordinary is the Patient’s Extraordinary

December 22nd, 2021

By: Justin Ong, BS

 

The time reads 8:30 am. Walking down the pediatric wards as a third-year medical student, it is easy to get lost in the[...]

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Sex Ed Isn’t Actually About Sex

May 24th, 2021

By: Rebekah Rollston, MD, MPH

 

As a teen in rural Appalachia, I didn’t know what I was missing when it came to my abstinence-only sex education. It[...]

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The Current State of COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts in Children

May 10th, 2021

By: Rebecca B. Garcia, MSN, FNP-C, Janelle M. Menard, PhD, and Elizabeth B. Pathak, PhD, MSPH

 

Children are absolutely essential to the success of COVID-19 vaccination efforts, as children aged 0-15 years compose[...]

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Child Care and Early Education is a Social Determinant of Health—For Children and Adults

October 23rd, 2020

By: Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, JD

 

More than six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, child care solutions for families remain scarce. A high-stakes problem[...]

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Relief-Seeking Immigrant Children

September 9th, 2020

By: Himali Bhatt, MD, MA and Katherine R. Peeler, MD

 

In times of crisis, the most vulnerable populations are often the ones most affected. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic,[...]

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COVID-19 Exacerbates Food Insecurity in Latino Children & Families

July 23rd, 2020

By: Alberto González, MPP

 

COVID-19 has exacerbated long-standing health disparities that continue to affect Latino families, and further, the[...]

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