Helen Kim

Jan 22, 2025 | kevinmd.com | Tomi Mitchell |Eric Beam |Helen Kim |Megan McLaughlin

This wasn’t the article I had initially planned to publish. I had intended to discuss the health care system, calling it a “proverbial dumpster fire.” But in a year marked by relentless challenges, the metaphor feels too raw, too real, so I will save that for a later date. Parts of the country are literally on fire, with Los Angeles and nearby areas battling raging infernos that have torn families apart.

Oct 31, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Sheetal Rao |Helen Kim |Megan McLaughlin |Chris Kager

As Valencia, Spain, reels from devastating flash floods and the U.S. Southeast recovers from hurricanes Helene and Milton, I, like many other parents, look at my own kids with increasing concern about the ailing world they will inherit. If a climate haven like Asheville, North Carolina, lying 2,000 feet above and 300 miles away from the ocean, can be swept away by a single catastrophic storm, how can we possibly keep our children safe?

Sep 16, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Amol Saxena |Robert Laszewski |Helen Kim |Jennifer Lynn

Recent op-eds have questioned medical billing and doctors’ pay, as both seemed high. Medical “greed” has become more apparent in the past two decades and has been well highlighted by two of my Dartmouth MPH Professors, Elliot Fisher, MD and Thom Walsh, PhD, DPT. Dr. Fisher has documented that higher billings compound the U.S. health care crisis, including medical debt, and that particularly affects minority patients. Walsh has shown that monopolies drive up costs.

Apr 10, 2023 | kevinmd.com | Martin Young |Jacob Fox |Eric Beam |Helen Kim

In a recent posting, “The vital importance of climate change education in medical schools,” the author concluded that climate change is “here and undeniable” and, based on her experience of wildfires, that the cataclysmic consequences are already upon us.

Mar 24, 2023 | fertstert.org | Helen Kim

To investigate the association between the number of oocytes retrieved and fertilized oocytes, blastocysts, cumulative live birth rate, and primary transfer live birth rate.