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Schools Address COVID-19 Concerns. But What About Childhood Obesity?
After a year-long closure due to COVID-19, several LAUSD elementary schools began reopening their doors to kindergarteners and first...

Jisu Kim
Apr 14, 20213 min read
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The Hypocritical Culture of Medicine
While our healthcare system publicly advocates for healing and encourages individuals to prioritize their physical, mental, and emotional...

Jisu Kim
Apr 2, 20213 min read
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Women in STEM Face Workplace Discrimination
I recently attended the panel discussion, When You Picture A Scientist, Who Do You See? The hour long conversation centered around four...

Jisu Kim
Mar 25, 20214 min read
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Sugar is Just as Addictive as Cocaine
In 2018, the British Journal of Sports Medicine published a shocking medical study claiming that added sugars, often found in soft drinks...

Jisu Kim
Mar 16, 20213 min read
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The Four Building Blocks For Optimal Wellness
As a pre-medical student at USC, I spent the last four years studying the natural sciences and memorizing meticulous facts about the most...

Jisu Kim
Mar 9, 20217 min read
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The Danger of Overmedicating Older Americans
For millions of older Americans, their everyday morning ritual begins by opening up the medicine cabinet and swallowing a handful of...

Jisu Kim
Mar 6, 202114 min read
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American Healthcare: High Cost, Low Quality (part 2)
On a global scale, the United States is an outlier when it comes to healthcare costs. We invest 17% of the entire economy on medical...

Jisu Kim
Feb 24, 20214 min read
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How Does U.S. Healthcare Compare To The Rest Of The World? (part 1)
In the early months of 2020, my friends and I backpacked across New Zealand, Thailand, and the Philippines before settling down in...

Jisu Kim
Feb 19, 20213 min read
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The Father of Integrative Medicine: Dr. Andrew Weil
Dr. Andrew Weil is the Harvard-trained physician who pioneered the contemporary field of integrative medicine, a collaboration between...

Jisu Kim
Feb 13, 20217 min read
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How Good Relationships Can Lead to Better Health
This past year has emphasized the necessity of social interactions, our longing for in-person hangouts, and the critical impact...

Jisu Kim
Feb 3, 20214 min read
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Are Doctors Treating Symptoms or Human Beings?
In our society, health is associated with simply the absence of disease, curing a cold or eliminating diabetes, rather than the state of...

Jisu Kim
Jan 28, 20213 min read
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