Author Archives: Eunice Zhang

About Eunice Zhang

Eunice Zhang, MD is a fellow of preventive medicine at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is also a board-certified physician of internal medicine with previous experience as a primary care physician with the Veterans Health Administration. She is earning her MPH in health management and policy and has a strong interest in food policy and information asymmetry between clinicians and patients.

Prescription drug advertising: viewer beware

By | July 9, 2018
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Direct-to-consumer advertisements for prescription drugs have been legal in the United States since 1985, but are illegal in almost every other country. The history of consumer-directed ads in this country is that of private companies replacing public agencies as the purveyors of information on prescription drugs to the people. It has left us in a… Read More »

Sometimes the best medicine isn’t a medicine at all

By | March 15, 2018
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Ironically, many healthcare providers–doctors, nurses, physician and medical assistants–are not trained in “health” at all but in “medicine” instead. Often, as providers, our instinct is to first reach for a pill bottle or a procedure and forget about lifestyle changes that could be safer and more financially feasible for our patients. As the burden of… Read More »