It seemed a throwback to the days of the country doctor: Go to the patients instead of having them come to you.
As a young intern in the pediatrics department at the University of Virginia’s medical school in the mid-1970s, Scott Henggeler got that advice from his supervisor, a social worker on staff.
He heeded it, taking the department’s van out for house calls into the natural beauty of the Shenandoah Valley in the Charlottesville area and soon had an epiphany about the folly of trying to treat some of the most troubled youngsters in an office setting.
[For more of this story, written by Gary Gately, go to http://jjie.org/evidence-based...ontroversial/107409/]
Comments (0)