Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu ‘The fallout has been all around me’: How becoming a doctor has taken a mental toll
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu How do young doctors find balance after a 28-hour workday?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu My medical school lesson was tinged with racism. Did that affect how I treated a sickle cell patient years later?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Match matters: Here’s some advice on how to interview for your residency
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu I’m a young black woman. Why do so many people assume I’m not a doctor?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Working at the ‘top of my license’ means I sometimes have to say no
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Balancing my work as a doctor and my work as an activist is getting harder and harder
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu A text message helped one of my patients stay in control of his health. Here’s how
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu When it comes to health care, nothing is nonpartisan. Melania Trump’s visit to a Boston hospital harms patients and providers
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu When my favorite patient turned on me, I learned a lesson in the emotional work of doctoring
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Once I was warned not to be a ‘mommy doctor.’ Was I becoming a ‘mommy writer’?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Why are we less forgiving of Ralph Northam as a politician than as a doctor?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Dear Atul Gawande: As you go on your listening tour, don’t forget about mental health
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Watch: The patient was saying sexist things. How I handled him made me part of the problem
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu My ‘sunken place’: Having to call police when I know it could be deadly for my black patients
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu ‘Don’t trust your patients’: What Larry Nassar’s boss gets very, very wrong
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu People with mental illness can make psychiatric advance directives. We need to encourage them to do so
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Here are my New Year’s resolutions. Some of them apply to medicine as well
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu #MeToo: So many of my patients have a story. And absorbing them is taking its toll
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu An elderly doctor was struggling. I spoke up. Then came the ‘snitch guilt’
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu How a kidney stone taught me that medicine has changed me
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Two little girls, two similar paths to medicine, but one difference: immigration
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu I went to medical school in Charlottesville. I know white anger well
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Prescribing opioids: Balancing pain relief and addiction prevention haunted my early days in medicine
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu When my patient died, I imagined what his life had been. Then I learned the truth
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu What Henrietta Lacks’s story taught me about trust and my role as a doctor
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu My job was to mentor this student. Instead, I left her behind
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Patients come first, but do doctors’ feelings still count?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Why I’ve learned to leave blank spots in some patients’ medical records
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu While I was treating a patient, his friend slapped my hand. Why did she think that was OK?
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Trump’s immigration order could stop medical careers before they begin
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu Police brutality is a public health issue. Money can solve the problem.
Off the Charts By Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu I was eager to see the Forbes ‘30 Under 30’ in health care. But no one looked like me