In his recent address to the American Medical Association, President Obama told the audience of doctors, “You did not enter this profession to be bean counters and paper pushers. You entered this profession to be healers. And that’s what our health care system should let you be.”
Dr. Kate Pedersen, a Dunlap native, and graduate, and now a graduate of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, would have been standing alongside her peers applauding the acknowledgement of a doctor’s first priority: to heal.