As I write this post, I am relying primarily on the vision of my left eye, as my right eye vision has been impaired for the last several days now. Last week, I noticed acute blurry right eye vision, and went to the ED, remembering that acutely blurred vision was an indication for prompt evaluation […]
Thoughts on Care Coordination in the Health System
People are always throwing around the term “care coordination” when discussing patient care and how to optimize it. I was previously taught the importance of care coordination across a patient’s providers and between the health system and the community, but I have only recently witnessed firsthand how the lack of coordination within the health system […]
The Global Health Specialization
After being accepted to the global health specialization, I had the opportunity to take various courses of which two helped guide my interest in public health. First, through the fundamentals of global health I was introduced to the concept of personomics, i.e. the susceptibility of disease and its treatment is affected by a combination of […]
