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Dhruv Khullar

Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician and assistant professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is also a contributor at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He currently serves as Director of Policy Dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership, and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals.

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Dhruv Khullar, M.D., M.P.P. is a physician and assistant professor of health policy and economics at Weill Cornell Medical College.

He is also a contributor at The New Yorker, where he writes about medicine, health care, and politics. He currently serves as Director of Policy Dissemination at the Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership, and was recently a Senior Research Fellow at NYC Health + Hospitals. His research focuses on value-based care, health disparities, and medical innovation, and has been published in JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine.

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A Doctor’s Dark Year

Brittany Bankhead-Kendall arrived in Boston in July of 2019. Tall and trim, with straight, blond hair, bright-blue eyes, and an easy smile, she has a sunny disposition and the hint of a Texas drawl. She had just finished a general-surgery residency in Texas, and, at Massachusetts General Hospital, she would complete her training as a […]

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Have been treating, researching, writing about COVID for a year+ now, and am often asked questions like 'when will it end?', 'how scary are variants', etc etc. I've come to the conclusion that everything points to a single answer: vaccinate as many people as quickly as possible5 days ago
RT @sbg1: 'There's no end in sight.' heartbreaking piece inside India’s COVID-19 surge from the always excellent @DhruvKhullar https://t…5 days ago
New @NewYorker: India's surge is a humanitarian crisis on a scale not yet seen during the pandemic. But the forces that created it aren't unique. Absent a paradigm shift in our approach, what’s happening in India today will happen somewhere else tomorrow. https://t.co/ZtPoCHsHVd5 days ago
RT @NewYorker: The coronavirus outbreak in India is “a medical and humanitarian crisis on a scale not yet seen during the pandemic,” @Dhruv…5 days ago
Important effort @scanhealthplan to deliver vaccines directly to people's homes @sacjai: "Human psychology is funny, and sometimes, just the fact that someone is willing to come to your home and explain it to you can be the difference between taking it and not taking it" @axios https://t.co/CTa48keuEM6 days ago
RT @MonicaGandhi9: Wanted to put all real-world effectiveness data for you on the vaccines together in a thread with slides so you can see…1 week ago
RT @ashishkjha: Today, India became the only nation to pass 400K cases in one day: 402K 21% test + 3500 deaths True infections, deaths l…1 week ago
RT @larry_levitt: Ahead of President Biden's speech, I'll repeat myself: Health reform always gets harder and more controversial when the…2 weeks ago
Heartbreaking account of the staggering coronavirus toll in India. "Many places are holding mass cremations, dozens at a time, and at night, in certain areas of New Delhi, the sky glows." https://t.co/gpEK24uxdU2 weeks ago
New study brings into focus the vast scope of Long COVID: Coronavirus patients who were not sick enough to require hospitalization still had 60% higher risk of death in next 6 months. https://t.co/ZKJztlDVA12 weeks ago