Like many cities in the United States, Boston faces strong racial and socioeconomic disparities. This problem becomes more apparent when one looks closely at the health inequalities that exist between Boston neighborhoods. For example, residents of Back Bay have an exceptional life expectancy of 92 years. Compare that with a neighborhood like Roxbury, where residents…
OWhen my kids were young, they repeatedly asked, “Dad, what does ‘internal medicine’ mean? The term “internal medicine” is not intuitive to what we do as internal medicine physicians and continues to be confusing to many. Defining the role of internal medicine within the health care system has been a challenge since the field began…
In the first pages of good girls, Hadley Freeman lists the 75 theories that doctors, therapists and strangers have developed to explain why she suffered from anorexia as a teenager. First on the list: her cesarean delivery, which a psychiatrist said meant she would “always try to look for the easy way out”. Many other…
