Monday, October 12, 2009

Women's Health Week at the White House

Nashville in the Rose Garden! Myself with Dr. Wayne J. Riley, the president of Meharry Medical College and Dr. Joe Stubbs, the president of the American College of Physicians.

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I was lucky enough to represent Tennessee at the White House Rose Garden event that President Obama hosted last Monday.

Here is the statement I submitted to the White House - the prompt was "80 words on why you fight for health care reform."
I help organize a service project that recruits doctors and medical students to join together for one day to provide free pap smears, Gardasil, and contraceptive counseling to uninsured women in Nashville. When researching followup care options for these women, I realized there were no options, no places for us to refer these women to continue care. I felt helpless to address the need - Tennessee has a heartbreakingly high infant mortality rate due to the lack of available resources for our women. There has to be a better way.
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