Harsh Bhavsar is an internal medicine resident.

Coronavirus exposes the reality of income-driven health inequality

Conditions
April 3, 2020

It’s maddening to see the differences in health outcomes between the rich and the poor. Even more unsettling is reflecting upon the psychological pain accumulated when living in a fad-obsessed materialistic comparison-creating society, the postponed dreams, and the day to day compromise that those with less have to endure – thoughts that may be far removed from the ruminations of the those who have abundance.

I don’t mean to stereotype, and …

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Coronavirus exposes the reality of income-driven health inequality

Coronavirus is a crisis. And an opportunity.

Conditions
March 23, 2020

I’m bombarded with emails of rapidly changing policies to prevent infections and identify COVID-19 patients (in the course of writing this, I’ve already received three more emails), I’m having a hard time finding masks because the nurses are hoarding them in some corner or taking them home, I feel regret for previously telling friends when they asked me that the coronavirus outbreak is likely not to cause this much death, …

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Coronavirus is a crisis. And an opportunity.