DOCTOR'S CORNER

UPDATE!

Dr. Boone was featured on WSB AM 750, wsbradio.com/, radio with host Ed McCarthy of CNN on March 28th, 2008. She discussed the 10th Anniversary of Viagra and erectile dysfunction.

Dr. Boone is speaking on (UTI) Urinary Tract Infections on April 10th, 2008 at the Park Tavern from 6:00-8:00 p.m. For tickets call 404.705.8366.

Dr. Boone will be on television discussing (UTI) Urinary Tract Infections on Saturday, April 26th at 7:00 p.m. The program will air on WXIA TV-11 NBC. This follows the NBC Nightly News and right before Insider. All segments of the show will be made available "on-demand" on www.modernhealing.tv.

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I have always felt an intense gratitude for the wonderful education that I obtained at Tulane University and at The University of California-Davis. When I started in Urology, there were only 42 women in the world who had ever become urologists. I felt that I wanted to do something to "give back" some of the fabulous opportunities that have come my way.

In 2005, the project to go to southern Ethiopia and do fistula repairs on women in need was born. One of my patients, who had been doing this kind of work for years, had asked me several times if I would go. I decided that before my 50th birthday, I would do something to really impact the lives of women in much less fortunate worlds. So, I set about to raise money, supplies, and people to travel to Soddo and Turmi, Ethiopia.

While there, I was able to remember the passion that I have always had for surgery. To have the privilege of looking into the body of another being is something that I have always held as a "spiritual" experience. In Ethiopia, the women we assisted would have never been able to get medical care, if we had not come. The patients there had no idea what we were doing to them. They knew that we were American doctors and that we had traveled 21 hours by plane and 18 hours down a dirt road in a jeep to help them. The look of gratitude in their eyes and the eyes of their relatives was worth all of the bumpy roads, long hours and sleepless nights.

I think that we all have a basic human need to give. When you have been given as much as we have in the states, we have much to give back. I was privileged and honored to go to Ethiopia and give a little back.

If anyone reading this wants to do something to help another, please look at these two websites; I know the people at both organizations and I can promise you that your donation will be well used.

• International Volunteers in Urology - www.ivumed.org
• Children’s Cross Connection International - www.cccinternational.org

Everyone has some special talent to give. Mine just happens to be very tangible and immediate and for that I am very grateful.