Dr. Leslie Harris discusses her work to help communities face fears, with creative energy to forge a new commonwealth. This is a candid discussion that completes a series of conversations, originally focused on messaging in a pandemic, between healthcare and faith leaders.
Dr. Brown speaks to us from a New York hospital where she responded to a call of duty request for healthcare providers to staff the overflowing patients the the hospital systems in that city. She speaks about the new horizon for mental health care collaborative approaches and telemedicine as necessary tool for the future of delivery of services.
Dr. Okpere discusses her calling into medicine from mission work to Ghana and a devotion to her nephew’s health. Her travels have also included learning about medicine in El Salvador.
Dr. Bradley has launched a Medical Humanities Journal at Morehouse School of Medicine, “Aequitas,” in honor of the mission toward achieving health equity. As a Primary Care Internist at Grady Memorial Hospital, she describes being grounded in the faith of her grandmothers, growing up on the Southside of Chicago.
Dr. Lewis Debnam discusses how the Social Determinants of Health are adding to the stresses and strains of the families she’s seeing in her practice. She also talks about how she and other physicians are “praying around the clock” for the world, for their patients, and for a cure.
Dr. Sweet begins by explaining how she chose the profession of family medicine, describing her medical education at Meharry Medical College and her residency in Louisiana. Dr. Sweet and Dr. Sexton discuss their shared experiences raising children as single mothers.