Global health experiences during medical education can have a profound effect on physicians-in-training. This reflection was written to capture a meaningful moment during the author's experience in medical school-one that made real the contrast between children from different social circumstances. Now a resident physician in pediatrics, the author carries with him the lessons learned from his time in rural India.
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J Law Med Ethics
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AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, USA.
Charity Scott was a professor of health law at Georgia State University College of Law, the founding director of the College of Law's Center for Law, Health, and Society, and co-founder of the Health Law Partnership (HeLP) at Georgia State. She is an iconic figure in her adopted hometown of Atlanta and certainly one of the most important scholars in the history of the health law field, justly celebrated for her teaching, her innovation, her commitment to interdisciplinary work, and for her compassion and love for others. She was also a dear friend of mine.
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Earth Sciences Department, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Utrecht State, The Netherlands.
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Health Aff (Millwood)
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This essay is dedicated to my husband, Stephen Thomas, and to my dear friends Asha Evans and Linda Mayes-thank you for carrying me all the way through; to Juno Pinder, for championing this essay and endless patience and generosity; to my colleagues William Sledge, Phil Corlett, and Al Powers for helping me navigate this mess and incredible support along the way; to my nurses, especially Stephen Majoros and Herty Lawson, for caring for me with such love and kindness; and to Robert Ostroff, Gerard Sanacora, and Samuel Wilkinson, thank you for saving my life-all words fall short. Ashley R. Clayton ( ) is director of research and evaluation at the Center for Wellbeing of Women and Mothers in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, in New Haven, Connecticut.
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