by Brady Blackburn | Nov 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Daniel E. Dawes began his 2020 book, “The Political Determinants of Health,” with a story about a farmer looking for land to plant an orchard. He finds a plot of land split into three sections: one with rocky soil, one with poor soil, and one with rich soil. In the...
by Brady Blackburn | Oct 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
There are stories about “midnight raids” in the 1960s depicting disability rights advocates in Berkeley, CA, smashing and re-paving curbs so they would slope down to meet the street at intersections, allowing people in wheelchairs to cross. These stories aren’t...
by Brady Blackburn | Aug 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
“It just kept happening, over and over and over again. Patients of record, patients I’d known for years. Either they come in complaining about something or I see something. All of the classic oral manifestations of HIV disease, there they were.” Dr. Lewis Lampiris is...
by Brady Blackburn | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s no secret that there is an oral health care access gap for North Carolinians with Medicaid insurance. It’s practically a rule of thumb that if you are born poor, you will have less access to health care services (medical and dental), and in turn will likely end...
by Brady Blackburn | Nov 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
On April 8, 2002, Ray Krone was released from prison after serving 10 years for a murder he did not commit. A decade earlier, a woman’s body was found at the bar Krone frequented. Officers identified Krone as a person of interest, and they took a Styrofoam impression...
