Author: Katie Donnelly MD

The Soaring Cost of a Simple Breath The article this week comes from the New York Times excellent series on medical costs in the US.  This one deals with the cost of asthma medications, a common set of prescriptions that our patients should be taking but often can’t or aren’t. There are two things in […]

by Katie Donnelly, Children’s National with Shilpa Patel, Children’s National The Case 17 year old female who emigrated from El Salvador eight months ago who presents after an episode where she lost consciousness and had vision changes. The challenge in this case is how to approach this patient with recent travel history who is asymptomatic […]

By Shilpa Patel For this week, I chose an interview of Lundy Braun on her book Breathing Race into the Machine. This book explores the history behind ‘race correction’ in the assessment of lung function. It is a reminder of how our social environment informs our hypotheses and how we interpret data. How Racism Creeps […]

by Katie Donnelly, Children’s National with Shilpa Patel, Children’s National The Case 17 year old female who emigrated from El Salvador eight months ago who presents after an episode where she lost consciousness. She had been watching TV with her brother at the time. She states she remembers her vision greying out but denies palpitations, […]

By Sabah Iqbal Given all the turmoil in the world this summer, I chose to use this AOTW to focus on undocumented children, a population that will be growing in our area. Over the weekend, I read this wonderful article in the Washington Post Magazine: it documents the harrowing and difficult journeys many small children […]