After graduating from Wake Forest Medical School, pediatrician Jennie McLaurin spent her career serving migrant farmworker families, Native Hawaiian communities on Molokai, and the Lummi Nation in Washington State. In this conversation with host William Trick, she discusses the hidden dangers facing child farmworkers, why “talk story” builds trust, the importance of family care in these communities, how she navigated vaccine hesitancy without judgment, and the ideas behind her book Designed to Heal, which draws a parallel between the biology of wound healing and healing societal traumas. A tender look at what it means to practice medicine as a companion to patients and their families, and the professional and personal rewards of policy advocacy to impact populations.
Music composed by Kevin MacLeod .
