I wrote this after doing a training on the Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution, because, apparently, this is necessary to be a doctor under this regime. Grateful to @huffpost.com and, always, dream editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social for the platform. www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...

"There are no sacred spaces in this regime of terror" @diptisbarot.bsky.social has a chilling new essay up on @huffpost.com Personal today about what her life is like as a doctor in the United States right now and it's absolutely terrifying

I'm happy to say that despite interference from the owner, the LA Times Opinion team is still publishing powerful pieces like this one from @diptisbarot.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

I wrote this because, "This is America. You should be able to call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute, and a genocide a genocide." Thanks to @latimes.com for the platform. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 9/26/2024 about the generational theft of the Oakland A's. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 9/23/2024. The question posed: How can Usha Vance stand by her husband as he fans bigotry? www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 6/17/2024. I wrote about my father-in-law with Stage 4 cancer and the ways his insurance company tries to deny him the care he needs. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/19/2024. I described it as, "not perfect, and certainly not everything I wanted was in there, but I did my best." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 7/6/2023. "This isn’t burnout. You can only destroy yourself so long fighting to provide the kind of care you can barely countenance." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/14/2023. I had the privilege of telling my father's story about a promise he made to his mother. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 12/24/2022. My nephew and his friends, part of the Covid Class of 2023, reflected on their time in high school. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 11/14/2022. I wrote about the impact of new Covid variants on the immunocompromised. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @salonnewsroom.bsky.social on 10/24/2022. I wrote this piece to honor my Mom and our Diwali traditions, knowing that I am not promised more of these moments. www.salon.com/2022/10/24/i...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 10/20/2022. I wrote at the time, "The only people for whom COVID is truly over are the thousands who die each week because of it." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 8/30/2022. I wrote, "If ever there were a time for doctors to have an “I’m Spartacus” moment...that time is now." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 7/17/2022. Nothing spells failure like your Mom falling on your watch as her Mother’s Day turns to night in the ER. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @huffpost.com on 7/4/2022. I wrote this "to remind people that unless you were indigenous, you came from somewhere else." www.huffpost.com/entry/july-4...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. Published by @fansided.bsky.social on 6/17/2022. I wrote about the Warriors' NBA championship and thanked Andrew Wiggins for getting vaccinated against Covid. fansided.com/2022/06/17/a...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 6/10/2022. I wrote about my nephew’s high school in Berkeley that had just averted a mass shooting. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/6/2022 about Evusheld, used for the immune compromised as pre-exposure prophylaxis. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @huffpost.com on 5/3/2022. Our clinic rooms will always be too small for anybody but providers and our patients. www.huffpost.com/entry/aborti...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 4/2/2022 about the failure of the healthcare system in the context of our healthcare workers. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was about Covid and "getting back to normal" published by @huffpost.com on 3/15/2022. www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a piece about lifting the mask mandates and the effect on the immune compromised published by @sfchronicle.com on 2/16/2022. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was about our broken healthcare system and the Omicron variant published by @sfchronicle.com on 2/22/2022. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a pandemic journal entry about keeping my immune compromised parents safe, published by @huffpost.com on 11/13/2021. www.huffpost.com/entry/cancer...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a piece about the Covid vaccine and the protective effects of being vaccinated published by @sfchronicle.com on 10/15/2021. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. I wrote this about Covid misinformation and it was published by @sfchronicle.com on 9/12/2021. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was about Covid in schools and was published by @latimes.com on 9/2/2021. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. I wrote this about dealing with anti-vaxxers and it was published by @sfchronicle.com on 5/20/2021. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a piece about the challenges of finding Covid vaccines for my parents on chemo that was published by @latimes.com on 2/27/2021. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a piece about the importance of pronouncing Kamala Harris' name correctly published by @huffpost.com on 1/29/2021. www.huffpost.com/entry/pronou...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @latimes.com on 1/21/2021 after Kamala Harris became Vice President. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @huffpost.com on 12/21/2020 during the first Covid holiday season, when one person was dying every half a minute. www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was published by @huffpost.com on 10/2/2020, when Trump was diagnosed with Covid. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a piece written at the start of the Covid pandemic dedicated to my fellow healthcare providers published by @huffpost.com on 3/20/2020. www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was a memoir essay published by Catapult Magazine on 12/9/2019 which they described as a piece on "food, family, and growing up in Southern California Motels." magazine.catapult.co/family/stori...

Transferring my published pieces over from the *other* place so that it is all here. This was my love letter to Siskel and Ebert, published by @longreads.com on 11/26/2019. longreads.com/2019/11/26/t...

Amidst the oohs and aahs about Usha Vance's custom cashmere coat or velvet gown with sweetheart neckline, a reminder of who she chooses to stand by and what she chooses to stand for. I wrote this a few months back.

Thanks to @huffpost.com and @noahmichelson.bsky.social for rerunning my piece as part of their "Best Of" series. Today is as good a day as any to remind ourselves of all the reasons our fundamental rights are worth fighting for.