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Avir Mitra

New York
As seen in: Radiolab, Yahoo News, Slate, VICE, VICE UK, NewsBreak, WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA), Side Effects Public Media
ER physician. Radiolab contributor. Musician.
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When Maggots Are What the Doctor Ordered

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By Avir Mitra
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What It’s Like to Have Maggots Eating a Wound—on Purpose Original

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By Avir Mitra
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Science This piece is from How to Win Friends and Influence Fungi, a collection edited by Dr. Chris Balakrishnan and Matt Wasowski. Copyright (c) 2024 by the authors and reprinted with permission of St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Take two maggots and call me in the morning. Diana Dupuy was an otherwise healthy woman who had bunion surgery. When her cast came off, she found that she had a wound that wasn’t healing very well.
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Why Don't Young Doctors Want To Work In Primary Care?

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By Avir Mitra
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In the world of physicians, there are hundreds of specialties—neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, dermatologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists...all the different "ologists." But doctors generally fall into two camps: the specialists and the generalists, like, for example, your family doctor. As it turns out, there's a longstanding struggle between these two camps, and a lot of people would say primary care is losing. As a first-year resident, I found myself wanting to understand why.
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