Hannah Patzke

Graduate Division

Student

Hannah Patzke is a first-year doctoral student in health policy. She has been a Critical Care nurse for several years now and has traveled extensively, both for pleasure and doing medical work. She loves competition, running, climbing things, and being outdoors. She loathes paper cuts and olives.

News

Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 12:01

Test Driving the Covered California Website

By Hannah Patzke

The idea originally came from our professor. She thought that students of healthcare—whether we were to be future clinicians or health policy experts—should experience the trials of finding insurance alongside our eventual patients a

Reviews

Thursday, May 22, 2014 - 12:58

Contemplating a Good Death: Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butler

By Hannah Patzke

An old man lies prostrate in bed, his lips ringed in blue. His chest rises and falls erratically and his eyes flutter occasionally. His daughter holds his hand as he takes his last few breaths. She kisses his forehead and draws the sheet over h

News

Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 12:07

Comparing Health Systems Around the World

By Hannah Patzke

Dr. Claudia Chaufan is an associate professor for the schools of Nursing and Sociology at UCSF. Originally a medical doctor from Argentina, she became interested in the social determinants of health when she moved to the United States. She subsequently earned a PhD in Sociology from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2006 and now teaches “Global and Comparative Policies and Systems” at UCSF.

Food

Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 12:25

When Life Gives You Lemons…

By Hannah Patzke

Lemon season for the Bay Area is just around the corner and I usually find myself with an excess of lemons to use. For reasons unfathomable to my roommates and me, the previous owners of our house planted not one, not two, but rather 11 lemon tre

Food

Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 11:19

A Flaming German Holiday Punchbowl

By Hannah Patzke

As the weather grows colder and Christmas approaches, I look forward eagerly to one of my favorite holiday traditions. Feuerzangenbowle, which I’m told translates to “hot tong punch or hot punch bowl,” is a time-honored holiday tradition