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This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: Beyond Vietnam

[Written by Dr. Toan Truong while interning in medicine at UCSF and published in Synapse on May 17, 1990.] The producers of “Beyond Vietnam,” an ABC News/Time forum about the prospects of normalization of diplomatic relations with Vietnam broadcast on April 26, called me at the hospital.

May 16, 2023

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An OpiNION on diversity

March 21, 2021

The description of heaven as an onion, having multiple different layers to explore as a metaphor in the chronicles of...

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This Date in UCSF History: Affirmative Action Under Attack (Again!)

February 21, 2021

Do you think that all citizens should have equal access to jobs and education? If so, how does one measure...

This Date in UCSF History: Political Ads: There Oughta Be a Law

November 1, 2020

[Originally published on November 3, 1994.] Disgust is the overwhelming feeling that washes over me as I listen to the...

Unlike The President, My Father Needs Hydroxychloroquine

June 1, 2020

Four months ago, my father began experiencing debilitating joint pain, which first appeared with a progressively sharp throbbing in his...

COVID-19 Testing Stifled

May 19, 2020

A recent publication in Nature illustrates how innovative efforts to increase coronavirus testing across the US, such as those through...

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Wet Market Crackdown

May 11, 2020

Victoria Turner

Wet markets have been in the headlines since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Many initial cases were traced back...

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Increase Funding to Strategic National Stockpile

April 20, 2020

In the days since the arrival of COVID-19 to the United States we have seen the ineptitude of the federal...

Vote Yes on Prop 13 For Safer Schools

February 9, 2020

Benjamin Adam Catching

UCSF is home to some of the best healthcare programs in the nation. However, our globally revered school consistently fails...

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Practicing With Hands Tied: A Slippery Slope UCSF-Dignity Health Partnership Expansion

December 8, 2019

Priyanka Srivastava

Genesis Vasconez

Hundreds of UCSF staff, providers, faculty and students have denounced a proposed partnership expansion between UCSF and Dignity Health that...