Yoni Siden
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Health Policy Beyond Healthcare Policy: Lessons from a Dual Degree
Last spring, as COVID-19 descended on Ann Arbor, I witnessed the stories of this pandemic. On phone calls to tell patients about the transition to hybrid virtual prenatal care, pregnant patients told ...
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The Best Teacher
I met Cassie on the first day of my longitudinal "high-risk" obstetrics clinic. Diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, she would require intensive counseling, treatment and monitoring during her pregnancy. C...
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What becoming a doctor taught me about being a social worker
Like a number of my peers, I am a career changer. Having started in social work, I shifted course four years ago this month, returning to school to complete the dreaded pre-medical sciences. Social wo...
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What I learned from watching a tiny vacuum cleaner
In the last two months, I have been to six surgeries. I have felt warm, viscous, blood course over my gloved hand as I held a retractor during a Cesarean section. I have seen the inside of a man's abd...