
Off the Charts
Reflections on medicine and justice through the lens of a doctor with many identities: Black woman, immigrant, patient, mother, mental health advocate.
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As medical professionals, my husband and I know the Nigerian travel ban is cruel. Now the pain is personal

My baby needed expensive intensive care, but my insurer was taking a long weekend. How can this be?

When it comes to health care, nothing is nonpartisan. Melania Trump’s visit to a Boston hospital harms patients and providers

When my favorite patient turned on me, I learned a lesson in the emotional work of doctoring

Once I was warned not to be a ‘mommy doctor.’ Was I becoming a ‘mommy writer’?

Watch: The patient was saying sexist things. How I handled him made me part of the problem
