If childbirth isn’t an illness, why does it happen in hospitals?
Is a hospital the best place for childbirth? That question is driving a revolution in birthing, focused on creating outpatient birth centers. This National Birth Center Week, Abdul reflects on the bir...
17 Sep 202452min
Are Annual Pelvic Exams Still Necessary?
For more than half of the adults alive, pelvic exams are among the most dreaded parts of getting healthcare. That’s not to mention the troublesome history of how they came to be a part of standard med...
10 Sep 202453min
A Family Physician on meeting “fear with feelings”
It’s back-to-school season — and that means back-to-school vaccines. Abdul reflects on the roles that ritual and trust play in shaping vaccination. Then he sits down with Dr. Natasha Bhuyan, a family ...
3 Sep 202452min
What a life-changing cystic fibrosis drug teaches us about translating science into health
You’ve probably never heard of Trikafta — unless you or someone you love lives with cystic fibrosis. The drug has fundamentally changed cystic fibrosis care, extending life expectancy by decades. But ...
27 Aug 202451min
Just Air
Environmental injustice leaves too many Americans, mainly Black and brown, breathing air that has been poisoned by smokestacks too close to their homes and schools. Abdul reflects on the process that ...
20 Aug 202450min
Public Health Across the Divide
Public health is universal–or at least it should be. But since the pandemic, it’s been politicized in ways that threaten critical work in conservative communities. Abdul reflects on how the way we tal...
13 Aug 202455min
This made-up medical diagnosis has been used to justify police violence for decades
The concept of “excited delirium” has been used to justify extreme force from law enforcement and to cover up police violence. Coined by a medical examiner in Florida in the ‘80s, it has its roots in ...
6 Aug 202447min
Fat Joe thinks you should know how much your healthcare costs
Hospitals can charge you however much they want for healthcare — without telling you. Rapper turned healthcare advocate Fat Joe thinks they need to lean back. Abdul reflects on the fight for price tra...
30 Jul 202435min
