• A Conversation with Pediatric Surgeon John Lawrence MD, Past Board President of Doctors Without Borders, USA

  • Dec 17 2024
  • Length: 56 mins
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A Conversation with Pediatric Surgeon John Lawrence MD, Past Board President of Doctors Without Borders, USA

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  • At a moment of increasing isolationism and xenophobia and -- for physicians – burnout, in a highly bureaucratic and profit driven health system, service in low resource high needs settings can be an antidote for what ails America and American medicine, at least for the individual clinician. John Lawrence has spent decades serving all over the globe as a pediatric surgeon, most recently in war torn Gaza and South Sudan. He explains how he headed to college with plans to become a mathematician and then got diverted from that career trajectory while teaching math to Native American youth in Montana and seeing the consequences of poor access to needed healthcare. As cliched as it may sound, physicians are supposed to serve humanity rather than just the well insured, and John exemplifies that point of view on a global scale.
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