Interview: David Satcher Takes Stock
dc.contributor.author | Mullan, Fitzhugh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-14T14:58:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-14T14:58:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002 | |
dc.description.abstract | Fitzhugh Mullan: Tell me about where you grew up and how you got into medicine. David Satcher: I was born and reared outside of Anniston, Alabama, on a small farm. More than anything else, my family’s experience with health care, or the lack of it, led me to a medical career. My mother had nine pregnancies and, as far as I know, never saw a physician. Her babies were delivered at home by a midwife—not a nurse-midwife, but a midwife who had been trained by her mother, who had been trained by hers. At the age of two I came down with whooping cough, which became pneumonia. Dr. Jackson, the black physician who came out to the farm to treat me, died when I was very young, but by the time I was six years old I was telling everybody I wanted to be a doctor like him. | |
dc.description.uri | https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.21.6.154 | |
dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/vmqv-m7xp | |
dc.identifier.citation | Mullan, Fitzhugh (2002) Interview: David Satcher Takes Stock. Health Affairs, 21 (6). pp. 154-161. | |
dc.identifier.other | Eprint ID 285 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/22456 | |
dc.subject | Practice | |
dc.subject | Health | |
dc.subject | David Satcher | |
dc.subject | US surgeon general | |
dc.subject | health disparities | |
dc.subject | public health | |
dc.title | Interview: David Satcher Takes Stock | |
dc.type | Article |