Patient's murder leads to soul searching, shift to ACEs science in UCSF medical clinic
It was the murder of a beloved patient that led to a seismic shift in the Women’s HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco : a move toward a model of trauma-informed care. “She was such a soft and gentle person,” said Dr. Edward Machtinger, the medical director of the program, who recalled how utterly devastated he and the entire staff were by her untimely death. “This murder woke us up,” he said. ”It just made us take a deeper look at what was actually happening in the...