Socially active, super smart and patient worthy Dr. Kim Becher we applaud you!
Patient Worthy found an awesome blog sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice and we are hooked!
The particular blog article we just fell in love with was posted by by Kimberly Becher, M.D. @BeckerKimberly on Twitter.
Now, we haven’t directly reached Dr. Becher yet, but Google tells us that she is a practicing Family Medicine Doctor in West Virginia and Twitter tells us that she she enjoys farmers markets and pie!
In the “medical world” from classrooms to offices apparently family medicine gets a bad rep for being boring. Now, those living with chronic conditions, invisible illness and rare disease can quickly attest here that this is not necessarily true from a patient perspective.
Leave a comment below if your general practitioner is awesome and deserves a kudos for helping you pre and/or post diagnosis journey!
Dr. Becher hasn’t had a boring day yet. She practices Family Medicine at health center in Clay County, West Virginia and she “doesn’t treat diseases, she treat patients.” Dr. Becher truly believes that her patients make her a better and smarter doctor. She journey’s with her patients to find and manage new treatments and all of the effects that come with diagnosis and life with a disease, especially rare disease.
Hereditary coproporphyria, Bechet’s disease, McArdle’s disease are just a few of the rare diseases Dr. Becher has come to face on top of all of the boring stuff Family Medicine doctors make better from day to day. “Patients with rare diagnoses typically have a long journey from symptom onset to diagnosis”– Dr. Becher says and she is along side her patients the whole way.
I diagnose things — really interesting things — that change people’s lives forever. – Kimberly Becher, M.D.
We couldn’t agree more with your outlook on practicing medicine here at Patient Worthy. Our readers would agree, that yeah Sometimes the Hoofbeats are Zebras especially in Family Medicine. Props to you for accepting the challenge to better your patients. Your empathy and persistence make you an artist in medicine. Keep mentoring others and advocating on behalf of the patient community Kim!
