Leeay Aikawa

Illustration of a doctor hurrying across a series of checked and unchecked boxes.

Health

How Much of a Doctor’s Diagnosis Is Gut Feeling?

September 27, 2018March 31, 2020 - by Leeay Aikawa

Why physicians should revisit their traditional response to decision making

April 2017 / Business

Period Drama

March 14, 2017April 2, 2020 - by Leeay Aikawa

It’s time for us to treat menstruation less like a medical issue and more like a cultural one

December 2014 / Fiction

Red Dog

December 8, 2014April 13, 2020 - by Leeay Aikawa

Everyone agrees that last summer Katie shelled the peas beautifully, though she was rather slow and lunch didn’t happen until well after two. It was a gorgeous day, the family …

Memoir

And the Brat Came Back

September 12, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Leeay Aikawa

A boomerang child relives her first, pathetic flight from home

Health / July/August 2012

Editor’s Note

July 1, 2012April 14, 2020 - by Leeay Aikawa

It’s hard now to imagine a time when running was something people did only when they had to. When a jog was a deviation in a straight line. When only …