Aside from individual’s lacking access to healthcare, one of the biggest reasons medicine fails to achieve significant health outcomes is that we do not meet individuals where they are at nor do we fully appreciate what’s going on in their lives—not intentionally, per se, but overlooked none the less.

I couldn’t wait to get to college.

It certainly ranks near the top of one of the best times in my life—socially, athletically, educationally, and culturally—I loved college. After obtaining my “Abitur” and graduating from the German high-school system, my parents put me on a plane to Georgia where I worked odd jobs in preparation for college expenses beyond tuition, room and board.