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Off the Charts

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

A column about the joys and pains of medical residency

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My medical school lesson was tinged with racism. Did that affect how I treated a sickle cell patient years later?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Two little girls, two similar paths to medicine, but one difference: immigration

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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I went to medical school in Charlottesville. I know white anger well

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Prescribing opioids: Balancing pain relief and addiction prevention haunted my early days in medicine

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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A text message helped one of my patients stay in control of his health. Here’s how

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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When my patient died, I imagined what his life had been. Then I learned the truth

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Working at the ‘top of my license’ means I sometimes have to say no

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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What Henrietta Lacks’s story taught me about trust and my role as a doctor

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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My job was to mentor this student. Instead, I left her behind

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Patients come first, but do doctors’ feelings still count?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Why I’ve learned to leave blank spots in some patients’ medical records

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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While I was treating a patient, his friend slapped my hand. Why did she think that was OK?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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How do young doctors find balance after a 28-hour workday?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Trump’s immigration order could stop medical careers before they begin

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Balancing my work as a doctor and my work as an activist is getting harder and harder

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Police brutality is a public health issue. Money can solve the problem.

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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I was eager to see the Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ in health care. But no one looked like me

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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My patient insisted on checking out. I knew she should stay. But she held all the power

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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How my grandmother’s heart attack changed the way I practice medicine

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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In the hospital on Election Day? You can still vote. Here’s how

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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When politics intervenes in the doctor-patient relationship, everyone loses

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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I’m a young black woman. Why do so many people assume I’m not a doctor?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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‘The fallout has been all around me’: How becoming a doctor has taken a mental toll

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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When doctors focus on survival, we can overlook what patients need to feel ‘well’

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Why don’t medical schools teach us to confront racism and police brutality?

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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Here’s an idea that shouldn’t be radical: There can be joy in practicing medicine

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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A new MD learns to live with pain and find hope in her patients’ stories

By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu

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