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n Israel, Dr. Clara Surowitz first
learned what it means to com-
municate.
Dr. Surowitz returned to Southfield
in May from a four-year program at
Soroka Hospital, a collaboration
between New York's Columbia
University Health Sciences and Ben-
Gurion University Medical School for
International Health. The goals are to
give students — most from the
United States, but also Tibet, Japan,
Europe and Africa — both a tradi-
tional medical education, as they
would receive in the United States,
and teach them how to practice inter-
national medicine.
"We received extra instruction on
how to handle disaster relief, how to
work with translators, alternative
methods of practicing medicine and
about different diseases," says Dr.
Surowitz, 28. "It's the only program
like that in the world."
But what struck Dr. Surowitz most
was the art of communicating.
"I was really impressed by the
humanity of it," she says. "Israeli doc-
tors are underpaid, but they're very
attentive to their patients, seeing not
just their physical needs but the emo-
tional needs.
"Being there, I learned to care for
more than just a patient's physical ail-
ments. I learned how to help patients
feel like they have a relationship with
us [as physicians] and trust us to pro-
vide them with their care."
Her husband, Jeff, says, "I have
many friends who went to medical
school at many different . places — the
University of Michigan, Wayne State,
out-of-state schools — and it seems
that if you put in the effort, basically

Dr. Clara Surowitz

all medical schools will teach you how
to become a good doctor.
"Not only did BGU give my wife
the chance to grow professionally by
learning how to become a great doc-
tor, it also gave her a chance to really
grow significantly as a Jew by letting
her live in Israel and connect to her
heritage."
Dr. Surowitz was raised in Franklin,
and she always wanted to be a doctor
— even after enduring the notoriously
challenging life posed by medical
school.
It was difficult, she says, "as I was
struggling through the prerequisites to
get into medical school. But once I
started learning, I really started to love
it.''
Dr. Surowitz was attending
Kalamazoo College when she met her
future husband, a student at Western
Michigan University. The two spent
their junior years abroad at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
When she came back to the
United States, Dr. Surowitz chanced
to see a brochure about the
Columbia/Ben-Gurion program. It
was new and intriguing. The idea of
returning to Israel with Jeff, now her
-husband, also was compelling. So
she applied, was accepted, and was
off to Israel.
"I liked the idea of really getting to
see other cultures and learning other
ways of healing, other than just
Americari medicine," she says.

