by Emma Dugas | Oct 16, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor Catherine Martin D.O., MPH has spent seven years and $400,000 training to be a doctor, but time and money don’t reflect the full price of becoming a physician. “I’ve made countless sacrifices, put my life on hold really, so I could...
by Emma Dugas | Oct 16, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor Yi and Esther Wang are saving up to buy a house, but for now, their son’s hospital room feels like home. The Sunnyvale couple are both registered nurses and they both work with specialists – doctors who have extra training in a...
by Emma Dugas | Sep 4, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor The town of Aptos is typically quieter than neighboring Santa Cruz, but last Tuesday that tranquility was broken by shouts of gratitude and applause for firefighters battling the CZU Lightning Complex fires – all organized by...
by Emma Dugas | Aug 25, 2020
By Emma Dugas, Vitals contributor When the next heat wave causes power outages or the next round of wildfires prompt evacuations throughout Northern California, chances are the global COVID-19 pandemic will still be unfolding. Under any or all of these conditions, we...
by Emma Dugas | Aug 17, 2020
This article was written by Anita Mantha, M.D., pediatrician with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation for the August 2020 issue of Bay Area Parent magazine. Raising a newborn has never been easy. Nighttime feedings, coping with your own body’s recovery and the constant...
