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disease or cancer.
"Driving through the streets of Ethiopia
is like driving through a medical muse-
ick Hodes, M.D., award-winning um:' Hodes said when a student asked
physician and medical director of him how citizens of Ethiopia react to those
Ethiopia for the American Jewish who have deformed spines and overgrown
Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), visit-
tumorous growths. "The spine patients
ed Oakland University William Beaumont are ridiculed and marginalized. They have
School of Medicine (OUWB) in late
bad self-images, especially the girls."
November to share more than 20-years'
When he was a medical student, these
worth of global health experience with the weren't the patients he thought he would
medical students.
be treating. Before he even pursued medi-
One hundred people watched his slide
cal school, Hodes earned a degree in geog-
presentation that included images of the
raphy and hitchhiked to Alaska. His edu-
patients he's helped at the Mother Teresa
cational path eventually led to Middlebury
Orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
College, University of Rochester Medical
Hodes told the stories of these patients,
School and training in internal medicine
their illnesses and outcomes to illustrate
at Johns Hopkins University
the range of ailments he diagnoses. He
"What you think you want to do when
described how one girl's tumor would
you're done with medical school may not
have crushed her brain if left untreated, a
be what you actually end up doing:' he
boy's spleen that had grown to the size of a said.
basketball and a woman's oral tumor that
was the size a bowling ball on the lower
Reason To Stay
part of her mouth. She never ate in public
Hodes launched a spine surgery program
because of the unusual way she fed her-
and specializes in helping patients recover
self. Hodes found a world-class surgeon in from tuberculosis of the spine and scolio-
Germany to help her
sis. He explained that some patients have
"His presentation was inspiring and
spines with 220-degree curves, in other
made me realize that each doctor can
words, shaped like a saxophone. This year,
really make an impact" said Cassandra
he has assisted with 2,000 spine cases.
Hastings, a first-year OUWB medical
His impact in this area is the reason he
remains in Ethiopia.
student
Hodes said that technology is key to his
"I felt so fulfilled when I started the
work He uses the Internet for research
spine program that I didn't want to leave
and to contact physicians around the
Ethiopia: Hodes said.
globe for assistance.
In 2007, Hodes was selected a "CNN
Hero" as a champion for children. He
Inquiring Minds
was inducted in the Medical Mission Hall
Many of the students wondered why his
of Fame, and the American College of
patients waited so long to see him. He
Physicians awarded him the rare title of
answered that Ethiopians first rely on local "Mastership" for his outstanding career
healers and do not completely believe
accomplishments. He is the subject of the
in Western medicine. Because many
book This is a Soul and the HBO docu-
years pass before they come to the clinic,
mentary film Making the Crooked Straight.
the conditions have progressed into the
For more information about Hodes, visit
advanced stages of heart disease, spine
rickhodes.org.

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