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Huge smiles were a common sight on campus last weekend, when Stanford Medicine’s graduating class received their diplomas — and a few additional letters after their last names. Photographer Steve Fisch was there to capture some of the happy moments. Previously: Congratulations to Stanford Medicine’s newest graduates
Rather than replace the Affordable Care Act, legislators should take steps to fix it, a pair of Stanford-affiliated scholars urge in a recent Foreign Affairs essay. The most glaring problem plaguing health care in America is its unreasonably high cost, write Sejal Hathi, a Stanford MD/MBA student and Bob Kocher, MD, a partner at Venrock who helped author the Affordable Care Act. Yet there are examples of hospitals, communities and health care systems (such as Grand Junction, Colorado or La Crosse, Wisconsin) that have discovered ways to deliver higher quality care at a lower cost, they say. The federal government can take steps to incentivize these top performing programs and to provide consumers with information they need to choose the best value offerings, Hathi and Kocher write. Admittedly, that isn’t easy: …Read more
Imagine being able to take a crystal-clear snapshot of an entire brain, recording what every single neuron was doing at a particular moment as an animal experienced fear or pleasure or any other emotion. Today, that’s just a dream — neuroscientists have to choose between seeing the entire brain in low resolution or seeing a…Read more
Patients diagnosed with the common heart condition atrial fibrillation face a daunting set of choices for treatment, according to Mintu Turakhia, MD, associate professor of medicine at Stanford. Turakhia, who specializes in heart-rhythm disorders, set out to examine which types of care received within the first 90 days of diagnosis led to the best outcomes. In…Read more
When I sat down with third-year resident Mehreen Iqbal, she was fasting for Ramadan. She had just come off a 24-hour shift in the neonatal intensive care unit — one of her pediatric rotations — at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. I thought perhaps the combination of fasting and sleep deprivation would be apparent but she…Read more
As an intern at the Sonoma County Health Department, Sarah Fisher was developing a oral health workshop for kindergartners when she had a sobering realization. “I was shocked at the level of advanced dental disease that some of the children experienced,” said Fisher, who is a pre-dental student at Santa Rosa Junior College. “Many of…Read more
Huge smiles were a common sight on campus last weekend, when Stanford Medicine’s graduating class received their diplomas — and a few additional letters after their last names. Photographer Steve Fisch was there to capture some of the happy moments. Previously: Congratulations to Stanford Medicine’s newest graduates
