When Medical Volunteerism Reinvents Your Career: A Physician's Experiences in Ghana

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD
Guest: Michael Polifka, MD

Dr. Michael Polifka speaks about balancing volunteerism and private practice and the rewards of providing care during the tsunami that led to reinventing his career. Although the spectrum of diseases in the third world is very different from the United States, a physican at the bedside in Ghana knows that he or she is making an extraordinary difference to patients.