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My specialty is infectious disease and

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it's a pretty broad subspecialty of

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internal medicine and I like it because

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we do a lot of different things . So

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one of the things we do is we're

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clinical . So we're part of the

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tertiary care team at the larger mtfs .

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So we take care of complicated patients .

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We take care of things like malaria and

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things like that . So a big part of it

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is the clinical work that a lot of us

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like , but we're also involved in a lot

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of other things because we're in the

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Navy . So we do research on

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infectious diseases that can affect the

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military . So COVID for instance , or

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malaria . So this is another big

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thing we do and part of the good

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experience I think for being infectious

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disease in the Navy and then we kind of

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do public health kind of things too .

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Yeah , I mean the wards , of course , a

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lot of us were doctors and so

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the reward that I get as a doctor is

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important , it's an individual , one on

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one . So sometimes you come across

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patients where you feel like you've

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made a difference , you've helped

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diagnose something that was hard to

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diagnose . You've treated something

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that made a difference and took them

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from sickness to health . And so you

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get these individual rewards , you know ,

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continually and then you get to do

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the fun things that are unique to the

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navy . Like I've deployed on the

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hospital ship out of Portsmouth three

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times and you know , I've traversed the

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Panama Canal and the hospital ship four

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times . I went on hurricane relief in

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Puerto Rico . And that was a really

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rewarding experience to feel like we

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were making a difference there in

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Puerto Rico where we dealt with a

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hurricane . And then of course , my

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time in Ghana was rewarding just on a

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personal basis to get to know how the

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Department of State works , to get to

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experience Ghana and culture and food .

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So all of these things were rewarding .