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Article: So you want to be an activist?(brownworth)(Column)
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- Curve
- Article date:
- November 1, 2005
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WHEN I WAS 6 I DECIDED ON MY career: I was going to be a doctor, a cross between Albert Schweitzer and Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman doctor.
I wanted to help people. In high school and college I worked at the very hospital where Blackwell herself had worked, the first medical college for women in the country. As an assistant in their low-income clinic I saw things I knew I would see in the countries where I expected to spend my years as a physician: the impact of extreme poverty on people's health.
I'll never forget the smell of gangrene in the feet of an aging African-American man with diabetes. (He would later need his legs amputated.) I'll ...
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