DrMonahan.com
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Welcome to The AMIGO Medical Group / Bienvenidos al Grupo Médico AMIGO
Description
I started thinking about becoming a doctor at the age of six after reading of the exploits of Dr.Tom Dooley as he treated the people of rural Laos. With that in mind, I think my medical career evolved as it did.
While in Medical School, I became very interested in the care of the under served and very ill. Early in my career I worked in outpatient clinics caring for Native Hawaiians, who lived in the Homestead Areas of Hawaii. They experienced the highest rate of disease in the state. I traveled to the peninsula of Kalapapa on the island of Molokai to treat the victims of Hanson’s Disease at the refuge established by Father Damien in the nineteenth century, where he eventually contracted the disease himself. From Hawaii I traveled to Hiroshima, Japan to study the long-term effects of radiation on the survivors on the atomic bomb blast.
Returning to this country and Cook County Hospital in Chicago, I first encountered the problems of those who reside in the inner city, where many had poor access to medical care and tended to wait until a problem reached critical proportion before they sought medical attention. I delivered babies in the south side of Chicago at Northwestern’s Home Delivery Service, which served Chicago’s infamous Robert Taylor and Cabrini Green housing projects.
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