Finding Global Health through Clinical Medicine Blog Post
by Nomazwe Ncube
After looking down at my watch which showed four minutes past the hour, I hurriedly scampered through the streets of Georgetown towards the Berkley Center. My final clinic patient, whom I had just left, had arrived late and presented an issue which required more than the standard 20 minutes allotted per appointment. I had patiently listened to her concerns, conducted a physical, and presented an assessment and plan to the attending physician. As soon as the appointment ended, I excused myself and stuffed my white coat and stethoscope into my backpack, which I later shoved under my chair, the last available seat in a room filled with students waiting to hear a Conversations in Global Health lecture. As I settled myself, I heard our speaker introduced: Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. As my heart rate relaxed, I wondered, “How in the world do I get from here to there?”