the young doctors
Young Doctors live in the Washington, DC area and focus their projects on supporting underserved communities in the, particularly in Southeast Washington.
Chase
His thoughts on Community Health:
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I think I would go to Lamond Riggs recreation center because it is heavily populated.
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I would target black males and I would want to solve HIV/AIDS because it affects people in the black community most.
Darius
His thoughts on Community Health:
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Darius commented that cancer is the biggest health problem impacting his community.
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He explained “I would find a cure for cancer because many people die from cancer everyday.
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I would do this by getting rich and donating millions of dollars to a cancer research project.”
Marlon
His thoughts on Community Health:
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A problem I’d want to solve is homelessness.
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I’d want to solve it because there are a lot of people who don’t have homes but have done nothing wrong.
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By giving them shelter it could improve their health.
Tsega
His thoughts on Community Health:
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Regarding the health problems in his neighborhood, Tsega commented, “How I could reach my community would be to raise awareness at my local recreation center and my neighborhood schools…"
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"The demographic would be blacks and Hispanics and their problems are high blood pressure, kidney stones, and gull stones, which all can be solved through awareness. They are all very common and can be painful in some cases.”
William
After researching health Disparities between Ward 7 & 8:
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I found that Ward 7 almost has double the amount of heart disease as Ward 8;
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Most of the differences can be due to high sugar foods, salt, and no exercise;
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I suggest that we stop eating high fat foods, open a health food store, and make some gyms.
Derrick
On Preventing Obesity:
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To prevent obesity and diabetes in the African American community we have to convince the people to stop eating carry out and other fatty foods and take action and come together and say that we can eat healthy too;
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The way we can contribute is by talking to the community and telling the people the risk factors of the foods that carry out serve;
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After that we get the carry outs to leave by not eating there. When they leave we demand the building of organic markets for the people - the community can come together to make change.
Marcus
After his First Shadowing Experience:
My first day at the hospital I was shadowing a doctor. It went very well. I was walked through a very detailed tour and special one-on-one talks with a lot of positions throughout the hospital. I was assigned to Medstar stroke clinic, which was lead by a phd, named Richard T. Benson.
I was excited to learn and see more things about strokes. For example, I saw how to put together the surgery plate to protect your head and keep the plate clean throughout the process. Also, while at the clinic Dr. Benson client’s faces were very happy after their appointment. It was very good visit and would love to visit again
Damion
His thoughts on Community Obesity rates:
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Obesity and diabetes effect the African American communitybecause most kids and adults are either obese or have diabetes, they can start to have heart problems or start to have seizures;
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These type of things affect the community because they are life threatening diseases. I recommend some things that the patients could try would be to watch what they eat and what they do on a daily basis;
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For instance having a big meal with lots of grease you should go for a jog or go to the gym and burn some calories.
Rashad
Concerning Diabetes in the community:
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You should prevent diabetes by focusing on plant foods;
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I recommend we all should cut back on refined carbs and sugary drinks;
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Moreover, as black people we need to address the issues that our can start to develop eye, foot, and skin complications if you have diabetes, which can lead up to death;
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And most important, more people walking around with diabetes and these complications are too much negative public health issues in our community.
Tre
After evaluating DC Community Health interventions:
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I do not disagree with DC’s interventions but some of my ideas are to stop letting McDonalds and liquor stores move in our community;
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Instead put gyms and healthy eating restaurants in the area. I would also inform and encourage the people in DC that are diabetic and prediabetic to join gyms and go to healthy food stores;
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Maybe if you offer a free month membership at the gym or give a booklet of coupons for a healthy restaurant to them they would be more willing to change their way of living for their health.