The Cost of Life
Ashley Inez Thrower, MD
9/21/2022
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Many of us have cared for patients like the hypothetical one I describe here: a middle-aged man with multiple serious comorbidities, includ...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Ashley Inez Thrower is a third-year internal medicine–pediatrics resident at Duke University Hospital. She also serves as President of Duke’s Minority Housestaff Association. Her academic interests include hematology and hospital medicine.
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Syndemic: The Opioid Epidemic, COVID-19, and an Epidemic of Firearm Violence
Noel Ivey, MD
8/17/2022
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Syndemics are intertwined epidemics, each exacerbating the other. We are all familiar with the syndemic of the opioid epidemic and the COVI...
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Noel Ivey is a hospitalist at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina where she currently serves as codirector of Project COMET (Caring for patients with Opioid Misuse through Evidence-based Treatment), a quality improvement project seeking to improve care for hospitalized patients with opioid use disorder. In addition, she is involved in clinical trial work for hospitalized patients with COVID-19, and she has a special interest in physician wellness.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
The Patient Knows Best
Chelsea Amo-Tweneboah, BS
7/20/2022
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As medical students and future physicians, we are often used to being the ones with the answers. We have been programmed to be presented wi...
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Chelsea Amo-Tweneboah is a fourth-year medical student at St. George’s University School of Medicine. She is from New York and received her undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has plans to apply into internal medicine, with future plans to become an interventional cardiologist. She also plans to pursue an MBA and MPH to help with her future work in addressing the cardiovascular needs of patient populations both in the United States and abroad. She is currently a part of and has leadership roles in the American College of Cardiology, CardioNerds, the Association of Black Cardiologists, and the Student National Medical Association.
Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Nature and Inpatient Mental Health
Patient comfort volunteers spend their time conversing with inpatients, which vastly improves their well-being and builds human connection....
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Miriam Al-Saedy is an incoming third-year medical student at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane, Washington. She is from Everett, Washington, and received her undergraduate degree in B.S. Biochemistry and an English minor from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Miriam is interested in internal medicine and improving patient care and is passionate about allergy, asthma, and immunology.Salsabeal Al-Saedy is an incoming first-year medical student at the Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane, Washington. She is from Everett, Washington, and received her undergraduate degree in B.S. Biochemistry and an English minor from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Salsabeal is passionate about improving patient care and is interested in gastroenterology and anesthesiology.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
A Disease for the Modern World
Abigail K. Cone, RDCS, BS
5/18/2022
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There is a rapidly escalating epidemic in the United States—a public health crisis that endangers the well-being and livelihood of our popu...
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Abigail Cone is a second-year medical student at Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane, Washington. She received her undergraduate degree from Seattle University in diagnostic ultrasound and worked as a pediatric cardiac sonographer before pursuing her graduate medical degree. Abigail is interested in radiology and internal medicine and is passionate about health care equity.
