MEET LOCAL LEGENDS: With Video Clips
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Peggy Goodman, M.D."The challenge of never knowing what's next!"
"I like fixing problems…anybody who walks in the door who needs medical care is someone I can help."
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Emergency Medicine
North Carolina |
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Joann Schaefer, M.D."Crusader Against Domestic Violence"
"To aid in the first breath is an honor. To aid in the last is a privilege. To share in the journey is the reward of a family doctor. It is an honor and a privilege to practice medicine."
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Family Medicine
Nebraska |
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Mercy Obeime, M.D."Serving the underserved, at home and abroad…"
"I always wanted to take care of people, to help people and being a doctor was the way I wanted to do that, plus a couple of doctors were friends of my family…"
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Family Medicine
Indiana |
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A. Janelle Goetcheus, M.D."The Mother Teresa of Washington DC"
"I still feel sadness from seeing so much unnecessary suffering… This country still needs to make a much more fundamental commitment to care for all its people."
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Family Practice
District of Columbia |
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Janice F. Gable, M.D."…A Tackle Box of Medicine and a will of iron"
"Christ, Kennedy and Albert Schweitzer got me going in this direction. When I found out what was really in this direction, my stubbornness kept me here."
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Family Practice
Virginia |
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Linda Duston Warren, M.D."I guess I am what they call a 'country doc'…"
"I started working at the local hospital when I was fourteen or fifteen and, at sixteen, I decided I wanted to be a doctor — I wanted that relationship with patients."
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Family Practice
Kansas |
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Jan Kirk Carney, M.D."The Public's Doctor"
"I had a fifth grade teacher who would talk about her husband, who was a hospital intern, so I became really interested in science and medicine, and went on to become a doctor myself!"
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Internal Medicine
Vermont |
