Addiction. Anxiety. Bullying. Depression. Eating disorder. Marginalization. Self-harm. Suicide. Trauma. Violence. Lives as teenagers are not always youthful nor blithe, and oftentimes life challenges are entangled with emotions and mental health. Youths’ cryptic codes of expression of these emotions, as well as the medium, have changed with the advance of technology. On social media platforms […]
Op-Ed
Is Telehealth the Future of China’s Healthcare?
Li’s Situation Li was a 61-year-old patient I met while volunteering in a major urban hospital in Nanchang, China. Over a day, Li and his wife waited 4 hours between two 5-minute examinations. They had also started their day from the rural area where they live at 5 am to make the 3-hour trip to […]
Here’s Why ERs Need to be Immigrant-Friendly
“May I borrow you for a second? The patient over there speaks Mandarin,” the emergency room doctor kindly asked me. I would always encounter a couple of Chinese immigrants when volunteering at the Emergency Department at Bellevue Hospital in New York City before coronavirus swept the whole city. Most of the immigrant patients at the […]