Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 08:45
[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper Nov. 6, 1997] Last year I arranged to spend the month of July working at two small hospitals in San Miguel, a town of 50,000 people in the highlands of central Mexico. I went hoping to learn how Mexican-born patients, who would make up much of my practice here, are cared for at home for common problems like diabetes, hypertension and stroke.