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We knew we needed to reimagine what a
doctor'
s visit looks like, to get kids out of poverty and to give them a fair shot at a healthy life.
One day, a mom asked us why we couldn't do her taxes while she waited for the
doctor.
Over 90 percent of kids in the US see a
doctor
at least once a year.
The first thing they told the
doctor
was, "We want to see her, and we are going to take her home and love her, and raise her to the best of our abilities."
And when life throws up one of its nasty surprises, as it will, more than once, when a
doctor
comes into my room wearing a grave expression, or a car suddenly veers in front of mine on the freeway, I know, in my bones, that it's the time I've spent going nowhere that is going to sustain me much more than all the time I've spent racing around to Bhutan or Easter Island.
In 2001, I was a brand new, shiny doctor, planning to save the world.
See, like many of you, growing up, I was an honor roll student, a scholarship student, with dreams of becoming a
doctor.
Because think about it, when was the last time you went to the
doctor
and you didn't get stuck with something?
She has taken a course in a business school, and she has become a veterinary
doctor.
She did successful goat deliveries in the region and she became a famous goat
doctor.
And you are rarely, if ever, seen by your actual doctor, just whoever happens to be working at the hospital that day.
So we go in for a stress test and after 20 minutes the
doctor
comes out and he says, "Your baby is under stress, we need to induce you."
Had I not been taking my temperature I really would have just thought my period was late that month, but we actually had data to show that we had miscarried this baby, and even though this data revealed a really unfortunate event in our lives, it was information that we could then take to our
doctor.
Now, what is it, if you had a thyroid problem and you went to the doctor, your
doctor
would actually test the amount of thyroid stimulating hormone in your blood.
We just got married, people will think I killed you! (Laughter) And so, we get to the emergency room, and the nurse sees us, and he can't breath out of his nose, and so she brings us to the back and the
doctor
says, "What seems to be the problem?" and he goes, "I can't breath out of my nose."
And so we go back and forth with this
doctor
because we think this is the incorrect diagnosis, and he's like, "No really, it'll be fine, just calm down."
And so fortunately for us, this
doctor
was at the end of the shift.
So this new
doctor
comes in, he sees us clearly distraught, with a husband who can't breath out of his nose.
We're looking at each other, and I looked at the doctor, and I said, "Why is it that it seems like you were able to accurately diagnose his condition, but this previous
doctor
wanted to order an EKG and a CAT scan?"
And so when two of you come together, when two experts come together, the two of you are able to make a better decision than just your
doctor
alone.
And so the next time you are in your
doctor'
s office, as newly inducted statisticians, what should always be your response?
Every time she went to the doctor, they measured specific molecules that gave them information about how she was doing and what to do next.
Peseshet is a swnw, or a
doctor.
For over a decade as a doctor, I've cared for homeless veterans, for working-class families.
And where health begins is not in the four walls of a
doctor'
s office, but where we live and where we work, where we eat, sleep, learn and play, where we spend the majority of our lives.
The results are normal, so here's some pain medication, and follow up with a primary care doctor, but if the pain persists or if it worsens, then come on back."
Are there barriers to health that I'm just not aware of, and more importantly, if there are barriers that I'm surfacing, if I'm coming to you and I'm saying I think have a problem with my apartment or at my workplace or I don't have access to transportation, or there's a park that's way too far, so sorry doctor, I can't take your advice to go and jog, if those problems exist, then doctor, are you willing to listen?
Its mission, to train physicians for the people who need them the most: the over one billion who have never seen a doctor, the people who live and die under every poverty line ever invented.
What's new is the scaling up and the faces of the doctors themselves: an ELAM graduate is more likely to be a she than a he; In the Amazon, Peru or Guatemala, an indigenous doctor; in the USA, a
doctor
of color who speaks fluent Spanish.
She went to see the
doctor
and they told her it was a normal injury for someone who had been playing tennis for almost 30 years.
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