Street Medicine

I have had the opportunity to have the most amazing clinical experience. 

I go out with groups of medical students and my preceptor, literally drive the back streets of downtown Detroit, and treat the homeless right there on the street. 

The whole philosophy is to bring the medicine TO the people that need it.

I have loved this more than anything I've ever done in medicine, and know what I am learning more than I could ever could have imagined.

I have become friends with prostitutes, hugged lots of heroin addicts, and sat in disgusting places dealing with third world living conditions.

And I love them. I love this.

This is why I went in to nursing.

(my first cast)