Nina Greenblatt, MD, a primary care physician in Seattle, spent years working in clinics serving immigrants. She found the communities fascinating, but the work itself eventually took a toll. “My job was to fix everybody,” Dr. Greenblatt recalled. “But that was impossible in a population with so much trauma, people whose needs were way beyond what I had been taught about: medications and hypertension and Pap smears.”
The change was like a light switching off, an overnight