COM Outlook Winter 2020

38 | DR. KIRAN C. PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE STUDENT Perspectives STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Social Advocacy vs. Basic Science BY JASON D. VADHAN A FALSE DICHOTOMY On September 12, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed titled “Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns” by Stanley Goldfarb, M.D., a former dean at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, who criticized the integration of social determinants of health care into medical school curricula. Jason D. Vadhan, Class of 2021