CUSCO, PERU — An elderly woman wearing five sweaters shuffled through her purse to find the pills she had been taking. She pulled out a small sheet of four pills and another sheet of two pills. This woman, like many patients at the clinic, had used antibiotics to cure her…

If you want to learn more about the existential crisis I have almost every day, you’re in luck. The New York Times just wrote about it. “How Medicine Became the Stealth Family-Friendly Profession” was published this morning and talks about what medicine can teach other career fields about being family-friendly…

Tucked in a corner of Cusco’s bohemian district of San Blas is the quaint Laggart Cafe. There, they serve a delicious passionfruit cake and support local artists by displaying and selling their work. You can pass hours here working and listening to smooth jazz, but you can also order one…

In almost every bodega on every corner in Cusco, there is a rack full of small bags of green candy. In La Plaza de Armas, the center of the city, men and women dressed in cultural garb will approach tourists and try to sell the same bags of green candy. …

For the past two to three weeks, my Instagram stories have been one thing: blue. People have been changing their profile pictures to a particular shade of blue and reposting the same text-image that promises one meal for Sudanese children per every follow and share. This phenomenon is called the…

In March, I went to Panama for a week as part of a medical Global Brigade and helped run free clinics for various communities. During that week, about 20 other students from my university and I stayed at a compound, prepared posters and presentations to give to patients and children…