rounds - Siamit

“There’s a movement across the medical fields to train doctors as social

scientists.”

“We know what can help our people. We just need to do it.”

“Being part of that push—for a more just country, a more just health

system, a more just world—brings a lot of personal meaning to the work.”

“We know in medicine that being connected to others leads to better health

outcomes. So it makes sense that being connected to your culture is

incredibly important to health and wellbeing.”

“How can the medicine that I know contribute positively to how you want to

live?”

“For so long in our health system in the United States, we’ve had medicine

that represents one point of view.”

“The Covid-19 pandemic is a mirror up to our lives.”

“I come from generations of people who committed their lives to the health

and wellbeing of Inupiaq people.”

“These are stories of incredible tenacity—of survivance: the ability to

survive and resist, despite long odds against us.”

“Historians of medicine have found their expertise of great value these

days.”