Jisu Kim
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...
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Jisu Kim
Apr 2, 20213 min read
The Hypocritical Culture of Medicine
While our healthcare system publicly advocates for healing and encourages individuals to prioritize their physical, mental, and emotional...
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Jisu Kim
Mar 25, 20214 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Mar 16, 20213 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Mar 9, 20217 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Mar 6, 202114 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Feb 24, 20214 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Feb 19, 20213 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Feb 13, 20217 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Feb 3, 20214 min read
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...
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Jisu Kim
Jan 28, 20213 min read
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...
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