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"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. R ❑