Healthcare through a doctor鈥檚 eyes with Helen Ouyang, MD
Air Dates: March 25-31, 2019
Public understanding of healthcare is driven principally by our own personal experience鈥攁nd that of our loved ones鈥攚ith doctors, nurses, and hospitals鈥攁nd for many, it can feel overwhelming. Dr. Helen Ouyang is an emergency room doctor at one of America鈥檚 best hospitals, but admits she found it difficult to access the healthcare system when she had her own health scare.
Helen Ouyang, M.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Medical Center, where she works full-time as a practicing emergency physician.
Dr. Ouyang earned her Medical Degree from Johns Hopkins, her Master of Public Health from Harvard, and completed her emergency medicine residency training at Harvard, at the Brigham & Women鈥檚 and Massachusetts General Hospitals. She enjoys writing about wellness, global health, and complex humanitarian emergencies, and has contributed to The New Yorker, The Lancet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Huffington Post, and MindBodyGreen in addition to numerous academic journals.
Some of Dr. Ouyang鈥檚 work:
鈥淢y Patient鈥檚 Sisters鈥 鈥 The New York Times
鈥淪eeking Painkillers in the Emergency Room鈥 鈥 The New York Times
鈥淲here Health Care Won鈥檛 Go: A tuberculosis crisis in the Black Belt鈥 鈥 Harper鈥檚 Magazine
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