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As a family doc, I get to be side-by-side with families and individuals in their life and health journeys.  Part of these journeys are the big things facing our world: the growth of anti-vaccination ideology, the future higher-tech and low-employment world, continuing sexual and other discrimination and harassment, and more.  The list is long. As their family doc, my job is to help people with whatever they need help with.  Sometimes, it's helping them identify options, and sometimes it's helping illuminate how these big issues affect them. The anti-vaccine movement is a good example.  I get it:  I'm a dad with three kids and I don't want anything bad to happen to them, just like every single parent or guardian I have ever met.  So when they decide to do their homework and find some plainly worded evidence of the value of vaccines challenged by massive amounts of social media and other digital tirades against their value, of course many will pause. Th...

A massive part of my job is at working at the nexus of prevention and disease management:  helping someone with a certain health condition not only get it under control (or maybe even totally better), but also helping them build resilience so that the future unknown slings and arrows of life don't hit them quite so hard. Resilience is critical.  Life is, as Frederick Buechner said, filled with "beautiful and terrible things."  The beautiful things most people can embrace; it's the terrible things that I work to help them with. Helping my patients figure out what balance and resilience is for them is pretty cool.  Amazing is when we've been able to work together and make resilience a reality. I love family medicine.