Mary E. Meinke, MD, MPH is an emergency medicine physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA after finishing a graduate degree in public health at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, and completing her medical training in Detroit, Michigan at Wayne State University School of Medicine and Henry Ford Hospital. She believes in the power of diction and using the written word to navigate the peaks and valleys of healthcare.
No Apology Necessary
Mary Meinke, MD, MPH I’ve been sixteen for thirty years. At age eight the road was paved with a ripe philosophical certainty my mother mistook for stubbornness. Now I imagine myself infinitely staving off the dark circles under my eyes with sheer gusto, leaving…