Super-Hero for Health! From a Doctor-Writer-Educator-Advocate

Who am I? So begins the zero-to-hero blog challenge.  Hope you enjoy my monthlong January jumpstart to master blogging basics! Let’s start with my hyphenated professional identity. I am a physician-writer-educator-advocate. And person. I am a family physician working two days a week in a federally qualified health center on Chicago’s South Side, and just finished…

Got Coverage?

Chicago Family Health Center has busily been signing up patients for health insurance. Each Saturday, we’ve been hosting Affordable Care Act Enrollment Fairs. The first one was November 16. After seeing my patients in clinic that morning—including two who had previously been uninsured, now covered through the Cook County early Medicaid expansion called County Care—I…