Rahul Parikh

{{short description|American journalist}}

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{{notability|Biographies|date=February 2014}}

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Rahul K. Parikh is an American pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area,{{cite web | url=http://www.rahulkparikh.com/Rahul_K_Parikh,_MD/About_Contact.html | title=About/Contact | work=rahulkparikh.com | accessdate=30 January 2014}} 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.[http://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/provider/parikh Rahul Parikh] He writes a regular column, called "PopRX", for Salon about various medicine-related topics.{{cite web | url=http://www.salon.com/topic/poprx/ | title=PopRX | work=Salon | accessdate=30 January 2014 | author=Parikh, Rahul K.}} He has also written for CNN about how vaccines do not cause autism, and how important he considers it to be for parents to get their children vaccinated,{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/06/28/parikh.childhood.vaccines/ | title=No vaccine-autism link: Get kids shots | work=CNN.com | date=29 June 2010 | accessdate=30 January 2014 | author=Parikh, Rahul K.}} and for the Los Angeles Times about the effectiveness of workplace wellness programs.{{cite web | url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-parikh-employee-wellness-programs-20130912-story.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925043647/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/15/opinion/la-oe-parikh-employee-wellness-programs-20130912 | url-status=live | archive-date=September 25, 2013 | title=Do workplace wellness programs work? | work=Los Angeles Times | date=15 September 2013 | access-date=30 January 2014 | author=Parikh, Rahul}} 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.{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/health/views/better-care-for-premature-babies-also-means-harder-choices.html | title=In Preemies, Better Care Also Means Hard Choice | work=The New York Times | date=13 August 2012 | accessdate=30 January 2014 | author=Parikh, Rahul K.}}