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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 Humanism, Patient Care
Posted October 2, 2019

Caregiving for a sick loved one can be stressful, harrowing, depressing — and rewarding

It was the most important thing I would do that week. One morning, I walked around the hospital introducing myself to patients. I stopped by the room of a woman in her late 80s with dementia. Her [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Humanism, Patient Care
Posted July 15, 2019

When the future is running out, narrating the past helps to prepare

How should you live when you know you’re going to die? It is perhaps the ultimate, eternal question — one we all have to grapple with, but mercifully, don’t have to, until the end is crystallized [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Quality, Innovation, Patient Care
Posted May 13, 2019

Yes, drug-assisted treatment is needed for opioid-addicted patients in U.S. prisons

Among my first memories as a doctor was a disheveled man, barely older than me, handcuffed to a hospital bed, vomiting a thin brown liquid into a pale pink bucket. Between retches, he sobbed and [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Costs, Policy
Posted November 12, 2018

With Drugs, How Do We Balance Medical Value and Cost?

How much should your medicine cost? A physician colleague recently told me the story of a patient who asked if she could put off taking her medication until the end of the month, after she [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Physician Workforce
Posted September 24, 2018

Even as the U.S. grows more diverse, the medical profession is slow to follow

I’ve never cared for a Hmong child, but I often think about what it would be like. The summer before we started medical school, I and other students were advised to read Anne Fadiman’s “The [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy
Posted July 23, 2018

How can you tell whether your doctor is any good?

On my last night of residency, a friend and I swapped our most memorable stories. We recalled the nights of panic and triumph caring for dozens of critically ill patients, about the day — okay, [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Telemedicine
Posted April 23, 2018

Telemedicine is getting trendy, but doctors may not be keeping up

For years, doctors have been told to look at the patient — not the computer — when providing medical care. What we haven’t been told is what to do when there’s only a computer. Telemedicine is [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Policy
Posted February 9, 2017

Essay: Trump’s immigration policies make me fear for my patients

As I was deciding whether to intubate my new patient — a 23-year-old man, ravaged by cancer, clearly struggling to breathe — his mother handed me two envelopes. In broken English, she urged me to [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Lifestyle, Physician Wellness
Posted January 9, 2017

As a doctor, I see how a lack of health insurance worsens illness and suffering

When I first met my patient, I didn’t know why he’d been vomiting. It turned out to be for the worst reason. He’d been losing weight and energy for months. He’d occasionally seen blood in the [...]

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