Who if not me will make my patients whole?
Having graduated from medical school in 2008 and internal medicine residency in 2011, I am a physician-child of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) era. The belief that “health care is a human right” ran deep through my upbringing and life experiences, but training during a period of such intense debate over health care reform reinforced this ideal. My professional identity developed interwoven with a compelling national conversation about access and …