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20patients with chronic disease, especially HIV and the metabolic triad of hypertension,
dyslipidemia and diabetes, especially when these conditions are exacerbated by lack of
health care. This lack of health care is sometimes secondary to the unavailability
healthcare resources, however, more often in my experience, it is due to a lack of patient
compliance that stems from the patient’s perception of more important psycho-social
stressors coupled with a absence of understanding about the severity of their disease. I
love the challenge of helping and encouraging these patients take the steps necessary to
maintain a state of health, and feel an obligation to care for those for whom it is too late.
I was recently asked what my plans are as a physician. The answer was an easy one, to
provide primary care to an urban population. I was then asked, “What do you want to do
when you realize that that’s not all that its cracked up to be?” After thinking about this
question, I realized that I already am serving these patients. Medical school is not easy. It
has come to me at great cost. Every time I feel fatigued with the mountain of information
that needs to not only be consumed but mastered, every time I visit friends with homes,
and families, and the successful exciting careers that I could have had, I stop and think of
the people who are marginalized, my future patients, and I know that I do this for them.
This invigorates me. The excitement and fulfillment I feel as I do this work is what
makes me confident that this will always be “all that it is cracked up to be”.
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