Mom Inspires Daughter To Be A Doctor Who Really Makes People Better [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 2/26/1612:00 PM

When Dr. Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu graduated from medical school, her mother told her, "OK, good. But you know it's not good to just be a doctor."

Umm, what?

"She, said, 'There's some doctors you go to and they don't make you better. I want you to be one of the doctors that really makes people better,' " Mpungu recalls. "And I thought, 'Oh, no. What does she mean now?' "

Mpungu went on to work in a surgical ward. And then with children. She was helping people — but couldn't say she was really living up to her mother's high expectations.

Then Mpungu started working at a mental hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and she noticed something strange.

"We were getting tremendous number of patients living with HIV/AIDS being admitted with severe mental problems," she says. "And at the time, no one knew how to help them or what to do with them."

[For more of this story, written by Maanvi Singh, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/go...-makes-people-better]

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