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SECRJ, Southeast Case research Association, low-income patients, rural Georgia, dental student, caseAbstract
Dr. Julie Fisher is a young female dentist who graduated from dental school just over a year ago. In order to appease her parents, after graduating she went straight back to her small hometown in rural Georgia and has been practicing at a family health clinic for uninsured, low-income patients. Although she has enjoyed her first job, Julie wants to pursue her own career adventure and practice dentistry in an urban setting, at least for a while. She is ecstatic when she is offered an associateship position at Dr. Allen Payne’s family dental office in an up-and-coming part of Atlanta. Due to a saturation of dentists in the area, Julie expected her job search to be much more arduous, and so she feels all the more fortunate to have obtained this job opportunity.
Julie was a very thorough, conscientious dental student and her habits have so far translated very well into in her early dental career: Caring for her patients with empathy and integrity and delivering the highest quality dental treatment are her first priorities. After only a few weeks at her new job, Julie discovers that Dr. Payne’s priorities are quite different. She desperately wants this job to work out, but ultimately she is forced to choose between pleasing Dr. Payne and doing what she believes is right for her patient.
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