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“Think of Horses, Not Zebras:” The Doctoring in Vermont Experience

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Written by Kathy Chen ’16
Recent fever, occasional cough and night sweats made me instantaneously think of tuberculosis as it classically presents with these three symptoms. Looking at the patient however, a healthy appearing 16 year old female with no recent travel history, a diagnosis of seasonal allergies with a recent cold was much higher on the differential. It was then that I remembered someone saying to me on my first day of medical school: “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses not zebras.”

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Prenatal Health Across Cultures at the Community Health Center of Burlington

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Written by Sarah Gardner ’15
“The baby is in my stomach, so what I eat, the baby eats,” the interpreter translated for us. Emily and I looked at each other. How do you explain the concept of a uterus and placenta to someone who became a mother at age 12, was pulled out of school in the second grade, and literally watches her stomach grow every time she gets pregnant? Thinking the baby is in the stomach makes so much more sense than imaginary organs.

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Schweitzer Fellows & Art Making at Northern Lights

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Written by Janel Feliz Martir ’16
To be an artist is to be an agent of change – becoming and being a subject rather than an object. This philosophy is at the heart of the Art Activity Group, a weekly elective art class offered to the residents of Northern Nights, a support home for women transitioning from incarceration into life in Chittenden county.

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