Community Healing: This Team Of Medical Students Is Learning How To Make Primary Care Cool Again

In 2004, Jaquelin Solis had only been in the United States for a few months when her father broke his wrist. As Spanish-speaking Peruvian immigrants, her parents hesitated to seek medical treatment. “They felt embarrassed by the fact that they were not able to communicate, and because they thought they would be a burden to the doctor,” remembers Solis, who was 10 at the time. But as her dad’s wrist swelled to outsized proportions, the family relented, headed to the hospital, and Solis appointed herself to speak for her father with limited English.