Lekshmi Santhosh, MD

Lekshmi Santhosh is a pulmonary and critical care physician.

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Health policy

From clinic to Congress: How you can use your skills to advocate

Lekshmi Santhosh, MD & Shubha Srinivas, MD

May 28, 2017May 28, 2017

It’s been a long day at the hospital. Between rounds and writing notes, you’ve already skipped lunch. In a spare moment, you manage to scroll through the news on your phone, and for once aren’t interrupted by a call or page. What you read makes you anxious, confused, or relieved — or all of that and more. You like, retweet, share, maybe donate, and then return to your last chart …

Physician voices

Cost should no longer be a dirty word in medicine

Alicia Carrasco, MD & Lekshmi Santhosh, MD

December 5, 2012Dec 5, 20128

I strolled into our noon-daily resident conference, a little late, my free burrito in hand, and noticed that “cost awareness” was the topic. The conference seemed to have the same format as our other lectures: an attending was presenting a clinical case and asking us what steps we could take to best diagnose and manage the patient. The case seemed straightforward enough—a 65-year-old healthy Caucasian gentleman with right-sided chest pain—and …