A Perspective on Liberty, Jorge Aldo Barajas Ochoa

A Perspective on Liberty Photography

On a winter night, I sat down in Battery Park to watch the scenery at dusk. I noticed the man in the photo looking in the same direction, towards the Statue of Liberty. The concept of “Liberty” came to my mind, but as a foreign physician on a visa. Then, I thought about my patients. I am a foreigner in this country, but my patients are foreigners in the hospital, and some of them are foreigners in a hospital in a foreign country. Even if our situations may be different, I grasped a bit more about how my patients may feel.

Jorge Aldo Barajas-Ochoa, MD PGY-3, Internal Medicine Rutgers New Jersey Medical School