[October 1998 journal entry]
In a recent breakfast meeting discussion with the small group of you physicians staffing a rural Appalachia community health center, I prompted them to reflect on the goal of making poor individuals feel welcome. We discussed how such efforts leave us feeling very self-conscious, impotent, out of place. Such experiences are intense. To make someone – especially someone who is poor – feel truly welcome is a difficult and at times threatening task that requires deep motivation.
In a recent breakfast meeting discussion with the small group of you physicians staffing a rural Appalachia community health center, I prompted them to reflect on the goal of making poor individuals feel welcome. We discussed how such efforts leave us feeling very self-conscious, impotent, out of place. Such experiences are intense. To make someone – especially someone who is poor – feel truly welcome is a difficult and at times threatening task that requires deep motivation.
