Word: linson
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Fourth-year Medical School student Patrick W. Linson's quietly determined voice doesn't betray the obstacles he has faced...
From New Mexico, with Taos Pueblo and Navajo roots, Linson matter-of-factly describes the poverty of his youth and the inferior health care Native Americans often receive. Both influenced his decision to attend medical school. Now that he's almost through, he says he is trying to decide how best to use his training here to serve his community...
...community, despite frequent reproaches that it has been unable to adapt to the modern era. Critics can wield frightening numbers to back the argument--only 52 percent of Native Americans finish high school and 4 percent graduate from four-year colleges, according to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Statistically speaking, Linson's presence is the exception to the rule...
Despite these discouraging statistics, Annabel Bradford '98 is also optimistic. Like Linson, Bradford says her goals of service are paired with uncertainty about the best way to use a Harvard education to achieve them...
Likewise, Linson says that the Medical School's Native American community has in fact shrunk over his four years there, with only one student in the current first-year class...