How a Doctor-in-Training Learned to Accept Her Stuttering—and Uplift Others
Leana Wen, MD, on Overcoming and Eventually Embracing Her Speech Disorder
July 27, 2021
By Dr. Leana Wen
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Dr. Leana Wen
Dr. Leana Wen is an emergency physician, public health professor at George Washington University, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a contributing columnist for the Washington Post and a CNN medical analyst. Previously, she served as Baltimore’s health commissioner, where she led the nation’s oldest continuously operating public health department. She is the author of the patient advocacy book, When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. Dr. Wen lives with her husband and their two young children in Baltimore.
