Rahul K. Parikh is an American pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area,[1] and who is also employed by Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, California, as the associate Physician-in-Chief of Patient Education in the Diablo Service Area.
[2] He writes a regular column, called "PopRX", for Salon about various medicine-related topics.
[5] Parikh has also written an article for The New York Times about neonatal intensive care units and whether or not prematurely-born infants born between 23 and 26 weeks of gestation should be resuscitated.
After graduating, he took a year off from college, attended Tufts University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in pediatrics, first at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,[7] and then at a hospital in Mumbai.
He also writes that "Sears misleads parents," using "tactics [like] soft science, circular logic, reporting rumors and outright falsehoods.