词条 | Anne Brooks |
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Early yearsBorn in Washington, D.C. in 1938, she was an only child. Her mother became alcoholic and her father was a Navy captain.[1] When she was 10, her parents divorced. Because of his tours at sea, her father sent her to a Roman Catholic boarding school in Key West, Florida. She reportedly decided at age 11, to become a nun.[1] Brooks joined the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in 1955 at the age of 17.[1][3] That same year, Brooks was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.[3] She was told that she would be on crutches or in a wheelchair the rest of her life. She attended Barry University in Miami, Florida and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in elementary education. She started her career teaching at Catholic elementary parochial schools in Florida. She also volunteered at drug rehabilitation clinics and abused women centers, among other places.[1] Medical schoolWhile volunteering at a free clinic in 1972, she met Dr. John Upledger, who treated her for her arthritis.[1][3] Inspired by Dr. Upledger, and with his encouragement, at the age of 40 Brooks started medical school at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, completing her program in 1982.[1][4] During her fourth year of medical studies, Brooks took a month off and traveled to Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, and Mississippi. She said about this travel, "there were a couple of things I wanted to know. One of them was how as a sister, with a vow of poverty, how do I run a practice?"[4] After seeing much rural poverty, she returned to Michigan and wrote letters to towns in Mississippi that might need a doctor. Tutwiler was the only town that answered Brooks.[4] Brooks moved to Tutwiler and, in the summer of 1983, she opened the Tutwiler Medical Clinic.[2] Tutwiler ClinicThe clinic accepts all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.[1] The clinic does not have a fixed budget and more than 75% of its operating funds come from individual donations.[5] The clinic provides medical, counseling, dental, optical, podiatry, education, and outreach services.[5] Over two thirds of the clinic's patients do not have any type of public or private insurance coverage. The median household income in the county is $18,800 per year.[5] Seventy percent of patients do not have any way of paying for their care.[6] OtherFrom 2000-02, Brooks served as Chief of Staff at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, a 195-bed hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi.[7] Awards
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bill Shaw, "Sister Anne Brooks, Doctor and Nun, Practices Without Preaching to the Poor", People magazine, Vol. 27, No. 12, 23 March 1987, retrieved on March 8, 2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Brooks, Anne}}2. ^1 "Sister Anne Brooks Marks 20 Years As a Doctor", Catholic Online, 3 June 2003, accessed 27 December 2015 3. ^1 2 Donald C. Carlson and Erin N. Syers, Journal of the Student National Medical Association, 17 September 2010, retrieved on March 8, 2012, "I am SNMA: Sister Anne Brooks, D.O." 4. ^1 2 "Sister Anne Brooks", Spartan Sagas, Michigan State University; retrieved March 8, 2012. 5. ^1 2 Tutwiler Clinic website; retrieved on March 8, 2012, at {{cite web|url=http://tutwilerclinic.org/index.html|title=Archived copy|accessdate=2012-03-09|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311040436/http://tutwilerclinic.org/index.html|archivedate=2012-03-11}} 6. ^[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/september-24-2010/mississippi-delta-health-care/7073/ Saul Gonzalez, "Mississippi Delta Health Care"], Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, PBS, September 24, 2010; retrieved on March 8, 2012 7. ^1 2 Mississippi Legislature House Resolution 77 (2005); retrieved March 8, 2012. 8. ^Pat Grauer, "Alumni Profile," Michigan State University, retrieved on March 8, 2012 "Sister Anne Brooks, Blooming Where She's Planted" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110906165941/http://www.com.msu.edu/communique/1997_fall/brooks.html|date=September 6, 2011}} 9. ^"Sister Anne Brooks Receives Grant for On-Going Work in Mississippi Delta" {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110922114004/http://www.mississippicatholic.com/categories/diocese/2009/091809/brooks.html |date=22 September 2011 }}, Mississippi Catholic, September 18, 2009; retrieved March 9, 2012. 11 : 1938 births|Living people|People from Washington, D.C.|Barry University alumni|Michigan State University alumni|American hospital administrators|American Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns|American osteopathic physicians|Physicians from Mississippi|Date of birth missing (living people)|20th-century Christian nuns |
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