On this episode, Dr. Amen Sergew is an integrative pulmonologist in Denver, Colorado, who moved to the U.S. from Ethiopia as a teenager. Though she grew up speaking English, she says that one of the hardest parts of adapting to life in the U.S. was navigating culture shock, especially since her life in Ethiopia was nothing like what was portrayed in the media here during the 1990s. Dr. Sergew had the added challenge of being undocumented during much of her teen and early adult years - right up until her last year of medical school. That experience has continued to shape how she cares for patients. Sergew also discusses stepping away from academic medicine in order to treat patients with a more integrative approach.
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