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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Quality, Patient Care, Social Determinants
Posted February 16, 2020

Food for thought — and health. The right diet for patients can improve outcomes and reduce costs.

As a physician who cares for hundreds of patients with heart failure every year, I’m frequently humbled when, despite my best efforts, patients shuttle between hospital and home. I track the [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Disparities, Policy, Social Determinants
Posted October 10, 2019

What Happens When New Supermarkets Open in Food Deserts? Not What You May Think.

For years, public health advocates have argued that food deserts—neighborhoods without grocery stores or other fresh food vendors—contribute to a disproportionate burden of obesity and chronic [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy, Social Determinants
Posted September 3, 2019

Health Professionals Should Work Together on Policy

In 1905, a Boston-based physician named Richard Cabot decided that medicine could do more to meet the social needs of patients. With his own money, he hired a nurse, Garnet Pelton, who began to [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Costs, Social Determinants
Posted February 9, 2019

What Is Single Payer, Anyway? It Depends Who You Ask.

For any political candidate running for office today, a central health-policy question is: What do you think of single payer? But perhaps a more fundamental question would be: What, exactly, do [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Costs, Social Determinants
Posted February 7, 2019

How Community Health Workers Could Create Less-Costly, Higher-Quality Care

We usually think of innovations in health care—novel cancer treatments, cutting-edge surgical techniques, powerful imaging tests—as being developed in the U.S., and later diffusing to other [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy, Social Determinants
Posted June 26, 2018

Is It Getting Harder to Care for Poor Patients?

In my more exasperated moments of residency, I must admit I was envious not only of what my supervising doctors knew, but also who they treated. Residents in our clinic, doctors in training just [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy, Social Determinants
Posted June 5, 2018

The Largest Health Disparity We Don’t Talk About

I didn’t think our relationship would last, but neither did I think it would end so soon. My patient had struggled with bipolar disorder his entire life, and his illness dominated our years [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Lifestyle, Social Determinants
Posted January 1, 2018

Finding Purpose for a Good Life. But Also a Healthy One.

My favorite medical diagnosis is “failure to thrive.” Not because patients are failing to thrive — that part makes me sad. But because of the diagnosis’s bold proposition: Humans, in their [...]

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