by Brady Blackburn | Feb 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
For years, Medicaid Expansion in North Carolina has been health advocates’ proverbial white whale. When it comes to policy changes that could dramatically improve access and equity in health care across the board, Medicaid Expansion would be a huge step in a positive...
by Brady Blackburn | Jan 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Goodbye 2022, hello 2023! What a year… From a loooooong midterm election season to the World Cup, inflation, the war in Ukraine, the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and so much more, there has been a lot on our minds. So much so that it is difficult at times to...
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 | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Teeth aren’t the only things in your mouth that need to be cared for. From your gums to your tongue, molars to canines, everything in your mouth needs proper care to stay healthy. In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what you can do to care for your gums — and why...
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...
