Ketamine is “a very weird drug” – and providers should be cautious in their excitement to prescribe it for a wide variety of conditions, the authors of a new Stanford Medicine study say.
The third-year MD-PhD student and Costanoan Rumsen Carmel Tribe member wants to see greater representation in medicine and better care for Native communities. “That’s the flame under me – that motivation to make a difference.”
California has the lowest rate of preventable maternal deaths in the U.S., but it’s still unacceptably high, says Stanford Medicine’s Amanda Williams. “And way too many of these women look like me.”
Stanford’s International Humanitarian Surgical Skills course has taught hundreds of health care providers how to save lives in settings where resources are scarce.
Quenton Rashawn Bubb is an MD-PhD student pioneering cell therapies for children with leukemia. He’s also an amateur jazz musician. “You’ll never regret knowing how to express yourself,” his parents told him when he was young.
