Ron M. Aryel

Jan 7, 2025 | rgj.com | Ron M. Aryel

During my long career as a pediatrician, I have seen firsthand the result of suburban sprawl. Pushing residential neighborhoods into ecologically fragile wildlife areas encourages epidemics and pandemics. Emissions from automobile and truck traffic increases the number of people suffering from asthma. It also increases the chances a baby will be born prematurely.

Sep 10, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Ron M. Aryel |George Mathew |Steven Siegel |Ronald A. Paulus

About midway through my pediatric residency program at a well-known children’s hospital on the East Coast in the mid-1990s, I found out what was wrong with me. I told the chief of the pediatric emergency department, a Jewish woman, that I had finally learned the name of a device after I had patients use it many times. I knew what it was for, but I hadn’t learned its name. It was a peak flow meter. The name finally stuck in my head. “That’s because you are subhuman,” she told me firmly.

Apr 10, 2024 | kevinmd.com | Ron M. Aryel |Sheila Nazarian |Emily O'Rourke |Jingyi Liu

I am a pediatrician who trained in a residency program that taught us insurance companies were evil entities intent on profits over patient care. As ICD codes and CPT codes expanded, my colleagues complained that these were ways insurers could deny care and keep them from making a living.