AMSA’s Environmental Health Action Committee recently hosted an AMSA Activism Update where we learned how the health of our planets and patients are interconnected. Read the summary and watch the video below! The quality of our health depends less on the quality of our health care system than on the environment we live in….
During a recent AMSA Activism Update, Dr. Alister Martin, an ER surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital, recalled his encounter with a young Latinx patient with diabetes. She had been admitted twice in a week with DKA. When Martin asked why she wasn’t taking her insulin, she told him about recently losing her job and health…
Physician well-being is an important, yet underappreciated topic. During a recent AMSA Activism Update, medical student Thomas Pak moderated a discussion between Dr. Mona Masood, founder of the Physician Support Line, and Dr. Srijan Sen, associate professor and medical researcher at the University of Michigan, as they talked about the unique issues faced by…
If You’re a Physician, You’re an Activist “It’s inherently the duty of anyone who’s going into the health care field to be an activist, not just for yourself but for your patients,” says youth activist, proud Latina, and future physician Daphne Frias. “I think if you’re going into the health care field, and you…
