“It’s exciting, it’s challenging, and it’s something that makes me feel like I’m making a significant difference in people’s lives,” he says in this video, which is part of a series highlighting the diverse voices of PAMF physicians.
“The challenge is to get a sense of who a patient is and what makes them comfortable,” Dr. Butler says. “When I’m in the operating room and taking care of a patient, there’s nothing else that goes on in my life at that time. It’s the most focused I ever am.”
One of the best things about being a pediatric orthopedic physician is “getting kids back to being kids,” says Jaclyn Wey, M.D., who works at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation’s Fremont Center.
A Bay Area native, Dr. Wey feels at home in her community and treats her patients like she would her family and friends.
“One of the most rewarding things I do is to help my patients understand medicine, making sense of something that may be scary and foreign to them,” she says in this video, which is part of a series highlighting the diverse voices of PAMF physicians.
When he was 17 years old, Karl Christoffersen, M.D., PAMF orthopedic surgeon in Santa Cruz had knee surgery and recovered “better than before.”
Ever since then, he knew he wanted to be a doctor. “I had to find a way to do this so I could help other people,” he says in this video, which is part of a series highlighting the diverse voices of PAMF physicians. Dr. Christoffersen shares his philosophy of care and a special connection to the community of Santa Cruz.
“I thought my flying days were over, I really did. Until I met the doctors at PAMF,” says Eves Tall Chief. A highly skilled hang glider pilot for more than 30 years, Tall Chief felt his world was crumbling when a dislocated shoulder threatened to ground him for good. “But my PAMF doctors understood me and put me back together.” [Read more...]
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