{"id":30206,"date":"2016-03-09T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=30206"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:19:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:19:49","slug":"street-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2016\/03\/09\/street-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"banner-container banner-has-html\">\n<div class=\"streetdoctor-2016 js-load\">\n<div class=\"streetdoctor-2016-title\">\n<h4 class=\"dek\">How MED\u2019s Jim O\u2019Connell learned to shelve his stethoscope and listen<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article three-col nosidebar-story cf\" id=\"post-90938\">\n<div class=\"entry sc\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_30207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30207\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2016\/03\/COM-OConnell_Jim-e1457543665423.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Jim O'Connell.\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30207\" height=\"393\" width=\"650\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;I had to be present,&#8221; says O&#8217;Connell. &#8220;I had to be consistent. And then people opened up.&#8221; Photo courtesy of Jim O&#8217;Connell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jim O\u2019Connell has spent his medical career as a street doctor, caring for homeless people on the sidewalks, benches, and bridges where they live. O\u2019Connell, president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhchp.org\/\">Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program<\/a> and a member of the BU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/\">School of Medicine<\/a> faculty, had originally planned a career in oncology, but after completing medical school at Harvard and a residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, he decided to work for a year at a handful of health clinics for the homeless at places like Boston\u2019s Long Island Shelter and the Pine Street Inn. \u201cAfter four years of medical school and three years of residency, I had thought my training was finally over,\u201d writes O\u2019Connell in his memoir, <em>Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor<\/em> (BHCHP Press, 2015). \u201cMy education in homelessness and poverty was just beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connell talks about slowing down and opening up, and how losing his stethoscope made him a better doctor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/winter-spring16\/jim-oconnell-boston-health-care-for-the-homeless-program\/\" class=\"button\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Bostonia story was written by <span class=\"byline\">Barbara Moran.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Jim O\u2019Connell learned to shelve his stethoscope and listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30209,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions\/30209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}