As a family physician on Chicago’s South Side, every day brings painful and beautiful stories, many variations on a theme–gun violence, senseless loss, deep heartbreak for loved ones, deep love for family, faith in God. Patients share how they cope with life constraints and limited opportunities with warmth, humor, anger, sadness and love. I am going to…
Her son was a war hero, survived his tours of duty unscathed. An upstanding boy, an upstanding serviceman. At age 33, father to two sons, he was killed on his doorstep in Chicago. “That 17 year old punk,” his mother says, “killed him for his wallet.” “My son didn’t know not to fight.” The killer was found. The killer…
Today I enjoyed my day with the youth of New Sullivan Elementary school in south Chicago. We created a miniature bond and helped each other critically think through the games and team building exercise’s. We also celebrated Salvador’s “Welcoming into Becoming a Citizen” and talked about how we felt as a whole about the activities…
Prevention Not Prescription 