Nobody is immune to becoming homeless. Instead of dismissing the homeless, let’s promote a culture of love and service.
Asha Shajahan
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
Asha Shajahan is a board certified family physician, podcaster and writer, who's trained in media and medicine at Harvard. She is the Graduate Medical Education Director of Health Disparities and Health Equity at Beaumont Health. She is the Medical Director of Community Health at Beaumont Hospital, Grosse Pointe and an Assistant Professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine. She currently sees primary care patients and does homeless outreach in Detroit.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | This doctor's holiday advice: Have a virtual Thanksgiving dinner
The shutdown during the 1918 flu pandemic was a bleak and difficult time. Thanks to technology, we don’t have to live in the dark and gloom of that period.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Take it from a Michigan doctor: Don't cancel Halloween. Change it.
Although this year has been full of challenges, Halloween shouldn’t be one of them.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Why getting a flu shot amid COVID-19 can avoid a 'twindemic' in Michigan
“We saw what happened when the region was short on tests, hospital beds, supplies, and ventilators as COVID-19 peaked — we lost lives.”
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Chadwick Boseman's death highlights need for family health tree
Colon cancer, if detected early, is treatable and curable. Here’s what a Michigan primary care physician recommends patients do.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Implicit bias training for health care workers can save lives
A Metro Detroit doctor has seen first-hand how patients are sometimes treated differently because of the color of their skin.
Posted inGuest Commentary
Opinion | Suicide shows burned out coronavirus physicians need healing, too.
We always put patients first. But it’s time the system starts caring about us as well.