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Travelling In The Time of Novel Coronavirus

15 March, 2020 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

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January 1 2020 After all the well wishes and reflections with family and friends upon the arrival of a new year full of hope, a Leap Year at that, I plant my pepper seeds, determined to get a headstart in my garden this year and settle in for travel planning. I’m off from work for […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Hand Hygiene, Influenza, Pneumonia, Social Commentary, Social Media, Travel Medicine, Viruses

Nobel Peace Prize Recognizes Sexual Violence

5 October, 2018 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege for their work to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of armed conflict and I couldn’t be more elated. Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege have “both put their own personal security at risk by courageously combatting war […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Doctor-Patient Relationship, Doctoring, Global Health, HIV, ID Fellowship, In The News, Politics, Public Health, Social Commentary, Trust, Violence

The Pay Gap for Women in Medicine

17 September, 2018 by KChie Leave a Comment

The now-infamous comment about the pay gap for women in medicine in the Dallas Medical Journal unfortunately represents a belief not as rare as one would hope. It is the belief that the gender pay gap in medicine is deserved. While I do agree that if one works fewer hours one should expect to be […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Bureaucracy, diversity, Doctor-Patient Relationship, Financial Medicine, Health Economics, Job Search, Lifestyle, Physician Income, Social Commentary, Social Media, Women Doctors

Black Women in Medicine

14 October, 2016 by GAggreyMD 1 Comment

Black women in medicine have taken over social media and for good reason. On Sunday, Dr. Tamika Cross, a resident in Obstetrics-Gynaecology who also happens to be a young Black woman, took to Facebook to voice her displeasure at being treated condescendingly by a flight attendant when she tried to offer her medical services for […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Clinical Practice, diversity, In The News, Medical Residency, Trust, Women Doctors

Your Infectious Disease Physician is Probably a Democrat

8 October, 2016 by GAggreyMD Leave a Comment

Data compiled by researchers at Yale and publicized by the New York Times suggests that some medical specialities, including infectious disease, lean heavily Democratic, while others such as surgery, lean heavily Republican. Only 23% of the infectious disease physicians sampled were registered with the Republican party. I am not surprised. The report also suggests that the specialties […]

Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Physician Income, Politics

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