To mark the 25th anniversary of the Meyers Health Care Institute, TH Chan School of Medicine third-year students participating in the 2021 Health Policy and Practice of Medicine Interstitial will participate in an essay contest that focuses on relevant personal experiences. was encouraged to participate in to contemporary health policy issues.
Megan Hansen, now in grade 4, was named the winner of the competition and her essay was Worcester Medicine. Hansen shares the story of a 30-year-old homeless patient diagnosed with HIV-caused cancer and the struggles she faced and how she learned about hospital services, chemotherapy, antipsychotics, and social services counseling at the National Institutes of Health. Share about the free service you received. .
Hansen’s essay, “A Fresh Start,” shows how both the COVID-19 pandemic and her year-long clinical oncology study at the NIH have played an important role in understanding the shortcomings of the US healthcare payment system. I’m here. and “profit driven,” an uphill battle patients face to provide safe housing, mental health services and substance abuse counseling.
Similarly, the contest’s second-place winner, medical student Shervin Rezaei, in his essay, “A Thought on the Cost of Statins in Bread and Gemstones,” discusses the difficulty of providing health insurance and the implications for quality health. I am writing about the financial burden placed on US patients for access. Care.
read both essays here.
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