THE WORLD ACCORDING TO DR. DAPS

I read an article in the Guardian in 2018 that the term Poverty Medicine was coined by a US physician named Raymond Downing in 2001 on...

In the middle of May, the mental health awareness month, I went to a fantastic lecture on mental health by Ross Szabo, the wellness...

Is it just me or is life just exploding back every which way after the pandemic? Or maybe it's the rain-soaked earth of California after...

I had a Blade Runner moment this evening. Los Angeles has been raining and raining and raining for weeks now and coincidentally I have...

I don't mind a good bout of crying every now and then. Crying releases the build-up of negative emotions like sadness and anger in a...

I kept meaning to write about one of the crises facing the medical system today, either the severe lack of mental healthcare...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. It is a particularly suspenseful month for me this year because we have not been scheduling as...

Since 1994, I have been involved with a group of Vietnamese American doctors who regularly go into remote villages in Vietnam where...

I admitted Mrs. N to the hospital a couple of days before Mother's Day and discharged her to home hospice care just before Memorial Day. ...

I've always been a bit of a foodie. No matter where I was, I would always try to look for the most authentically local dishes,...

It has been a super busy Thanksgiving holiday week for our family starting with picking up our sons from UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego...

The problem with going around pointing out the harmful things people are doing to themselves is not just that you end up being such a...

I have a terrible travel bug. My long-suffering husband Bruce is nodding his head vigorously at this statement. I could blame it on my...

Memorial Day is supposed to be a day for us to remember, honor, and mourn the men and women who have died while on duty with the US...

I wrote this story last week but the beginning was too pedantic and reads like a news article or history book; the ending seemed too...

(Patients' names have been changed to protect their privacy) Vera came into our office on Monday, May 10, 2021 with a dozen dark red...

I woke up this morning with the theme of retirement floating on my mind. The words of Omar Khayyam came unbidden into my thoughts over...