Dr. Deborah Johnson

It started with an unusually hard week. I lost a patient to heart failure. He was a 72 year old man from the reservation. Swine flu caused a public panic for no good reason. I hate the media. Poor kids, poor mothers, they don’t know anything. I’m not looking forward to this Halloween party. They’re … Read more

When Deborah saw The Doctor for the first time this is what she recalled…   You know this guy. While working with your mother for Doctor’s Without Borders you were assigned to a clinic at Koidu (Sefadu) in Sierra Leone. The country had recently ended a violent civil war and tensions and anger were still … Read more

Player: Eunsil Background Notes Deborah’s family is all doctors. Her mother, Okja Jan, a 1.5-generation Korean-American, works in general practice for Doctor’s Without Borders (Médicins sans frontiérs). Her father, John Johnson, a life-long New Englander with an upper middle class background and old American-British roots, is a neurologist. Her parents met in medical school. They … Read more