Post Author: Rachel Solnick, MD and Cornelius Jamison, MD

Rachel Solnick is an emergency physician and can be reached on Twitter @RachelSolnickMD. Cornelius Jamison is a family physician and can be reached on Twitter @CDJamisonMD.

How the STI epidemic can inform policy solutions for the COVID-19 pandemic

Rachel Solnick, MD and Cornelius Jamison, MD

Conditions

November 4, 2020

As the burden of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) plateaus into a perpetual state of public health emergency for 2020, examining the United States’ forgotten epidemic of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) offers insight to a COVID-19 solution. STIs are the long-neglected contagious disease that echo many of the same socioeconomic, political, racial, and structural problems feeding the recursive tragedy of COVID-19. Targeted investments are of critical importance as there is a …

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Breaking the cycle of human trafficking: What can physicians do?

Rachel Solnick, MD and Cornelius Jamison, MD

Physician

June 8, 2015

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With my white coat still on, I put my hands together behind my back and heard the police officer ratchet the handcuffs shut. The last place I’d expect this to happen is in the hospital while taking care of patients. But there I was, getting handcuffed along with my attending while standing in the middle of the psychiatry inpatient unit.

Ashley (name …

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