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Dr. Esther Choo

MSNBC Columnist

Esther Choo, M.D. M.P.H. is an emergency medicine physician, health policy researcher and founding member of Equity Quotient, a company that advises organizations on building a culture of equity. She has provided commentary on the pandemic and other health care topics through appearances on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and Yahoo! Finance and editorials published in The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, The Washington Post, NBC Think and USA Today.

Esther Choo, M.D. M.P.H. is an emergency medicine physician, health policy researcher and founding member of Equity Quotient, a company that advises organizations on building a culture of equity. She has provided commentary on the pandemic and other health care topics through appearances on MSNBC, CNN, the BBC and Yahoo! Finance and editorials published in The Lancet, the British Medical Journal, The Washington Post, NBC Think and USA Today.

Latest from Dr. Esther Choo

55d ago

Women are far safer with an accessible abortion pill than they are without one

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk's ruling that the FDA’s initial approval of mifepristone was unlawful is flawed and dangerous.
75d ago

Gwyneth Paltrow is pushing snake oil to fellow Covid long-haulers

Gwyneth Paltrow’s ozone therapy practice goes beyond your average Goop-inspired health hack, with the FDA refuting its known benefits, and pointing to risks.
87d ago

Medical tourism is a symptom of our broken American healthcare system

After the deaths of two Americans traveling to Mexico for surgery, Dr. Esther Choo says medical tourism is a reminder that the U.S. healthcare system is broken.
151d ago

How Damar Hamlin’s collapse became the latest anti-vaccine conspiracy theory

When Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest Monday, anti-vaccine activists were quick to insinuate a link to vaccines.
189d ago

What to know about RSV, the respiratory virus impacting infants and toddlers

Oregon declared a state of emergency with people still dying from Covid, the flu in full force, and now respiratory illness RSV spreading among young children.
236d ago

What you need to know about Haiti's deadly cholera outbreak

The disease is a consequence of widespread instability and chaos
253d ago

The fetal heartbeat isn't real — at least not in the way you think

How the far right’s soft-on-the-facts-strong-on-the-emotional-overlay milieu nurtures policies that are both dangerous and ludicrous.
337d ago

In post-Roe America, accessible birth control is more important than ever

Contraception remains frustratingly inaccessible to many who wish to use it. With the end of Roe, that needs to change.
374d ago

Guns are designed to destroy the body. And we're letting them over and over again.

Here in the hospital, we will always be waiting to receive those who make it to us. But our best will always be a worse option than prevention.
378d ago

It seems like a scary time for reproductive rights. Here are reasons to have more hope.

Power over bodies has a long history that is inclusive of racism, classism and ableism. We need to change the way we talk about abortion rights.
401d ago

The White House Correspondents' Dinner is too risky for Dr. Fauci. That says something.

If the Gridiron dinner were the exemplar for vaccines alone being adequate, then the White House Correspondents' Dinner seems to be modeling the personal risk calculator.