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I'm passionate about

creative education and the impact of education on social issues

An idea worth spreading

Our Free Clinics are managed by high school students. These students are responsible
for coordination of patient care and are taught via an apprentice models.
Students are responsible for creative ideas to solve community problems.

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Education. Traditional medical education involves Socratic methods where the youngest member of the medical team must examine diagnose present the case. All educators
can learn from their students

People don't know that I'm good at

solving complex social issues

My TED Story

Our free clinics are staffed and managed by high school students who are chartered to
look at their communities for problems and try to find create solutions for those problems.

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• A comment on Conversation: A conversation with Prudential: As people are living longer, how can we plan for a retirement that could last up to 30 years or more?

  Apr 20 2012: As a family physician I have learned that few of my patients other than government workers with pensions expect to retire. Most of my patients believe that they will work until they are sick, confused, or 80 (whichever comes first).
  They expect that they will need those years to compensate from lost income from DIVORCES first, and poor investments
  second. Government workers expect to retire after 30 years of work. If they are lucky enough to start work at age 22
  they expect to collect 30 or 40 years of pensions.
  With the poor investment options available (see the Economist cover article..."No where to hide")...most people can no longer count on investments to permit retirement. So the solution to the Social Security question "how can we afford this"...well...people will not retire until they are very old...or very frail.