11.23.09
St Louis Escorts: Doctor admired for efforts
… You work with getting their life under control,” Buchanan said. “It’s a Catch-22 for lots of folks if they can’t afford medicine and their case worsens and they lose their income and wind up on the streets. We try to reverse that.”
The sadness comes from seeing patients who cannot seem to help themselves.
“I think what’s frustrating and tragic is we deal with lots of people, especially in the STD (sexually transmitted diseases) and TB (tuberculosis) clinic who are down on their luck and have made choices in their lives that are unthinkable — for the most part prostitutes and drug addicts,” she said. “We see them come back in over and over with issues related to their lifestyles. People are stuck in that lifestyle. We get to know them on a very personal level.”