Zed’s children’s book!
Zed Zha is a physician, an author, and a medical cultural critic.
Represented by Kathryn Wilms, Zed’s work-in-progress is a non-fiction book project on medical rape culture.
Her upcoming children’s book, Why We Eat Fried Peanuts: A Celebration of Family and Lunar New Year Traditions (2025), by becker&mayer! kids, is based on the true story of her great-grandmother who gave up her dignity to save a life almost 100 years ago. You can preorder on Google Books!
Zed is an active OpEd writer and medical culture critic. Her topics of interest are medical/social justice, medical ethics such as weight stigma, intersections of medicine with racism and misogyny, and reproductive rights.
In her blog, Zed shares her vulnerability as a human and a doctor. She writes about the remarkable stories of her mother who “stole” her back from forced adoption. You can also find good advice about common medical conditions, medical training, residency interviews, and charting. Once, she wrote a letter to her patient with whom she shared a diagnosis.
Finally, if you need to restore your faith in medicine and healthcare, sign up for her newsletter Ask The Patient!
Book Deal Announcement!
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Based on the true, heroic story of Zed’s great-grandmother, Why We Eat Fried Peanuts invites kids to join Meng and her father at their Chinese New Year dinner preparation. While enjoying yummy snacks, Meng discovers her family legend — the most important ancestor without a name — and the legacy of kindness she left behind.
The Newest OpEd
MedPage Today, July 4, 2024
There was a joke during my training that "XXX was so large we had to use the elephant MRI in the zoo for their scan." Let me be clear: fat jokes have no place in medicine. And the failure to accommodate larger bodies in healthcare is not funny. Weight stigma is prevalent and harmful in healthcare. The refusal and inability to see past fat denies access to healthcare for those who live with obesity. Here is why.
Recent Features
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Zed’s MedPage Today opinion piece on the importance of accessing abortions among underprivileged teens won Gold during the 24th Annual Digital Health Awards.
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