Atharva Joshi is a board-certified U.S. family physician, educator, and writer with a career dedicated to underserved and rural communities across the United States. He has served in both clinical leadership and frontline roles, participated in rural public health initiatives for Indigenous and medically marginalized populations, and mentored pre-medical students from marginalized backgrounds.
Dr. Joshi is also an advocate for physicians and other health care professionals facing institutional abuse, narrative erasure, and retaliatory legal tactics. His writing explores the intersection of medicine, identity, and power.
He is a graduate of the University of Texas McGovern Medical School and holds additional distinction as a Diplomate of the American Academy of Family Physicians. His work combines the precision of clinical medicine with the strategic clarity of systems-level analysis.
Atharva Joshi is a board-certified U.S. family physician, educator, and writer with a career dedicated to underserved and rural communities across the United States. He has served in both clinical leadership and frontline roles, participated in rural public health initiatives for Indigenous and medically marginalized populations, and mentored pre-medical students from marginalized backgrounds.
Dr. Joshi is also an advocate for physicians and other health care professionals facing institutional abuse, narrative erasure, and retaliatory legal tactics. His writing explores the intersection of medicine, identity, and power.
He is a graduate of the University of Texas McGovern Medical School and holds additional distinction as a Diplomate of the American Academy of Family Physicians. His work combines the precision of clinical medicine with the strategic clarity of systems-level analysis.
They never said it outright. Not at first.
They didn’t have to.
I was a physician at the edge of the Republic, serving those the system had long since forgotten. When the last doctors left, I remained. I healed. I endured. I became necessary.
And for that, the system turned.
Not with conviction, but suspicion.
Not with verdict, but process.
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