84. The Contemporary - Jessica Saxe, MD, FAAFP

The CME experience for this Podcast is powered by CMEfy - click here to reflect and unlock credits & more: https://earnc.me/LEFR9v Dr. Jessica Schorr Saxe worked as a family physician for the underserved for Carolinas HealthCare System for 34 years before  retiring in 2015. In practice, she saw daily examples of people who did not get needed care for financial reasons, which strengthened her conviction that everyone should have access to health care. She chairs Health Care Justice—NC, which advocates improved  Medicare for All as the most effective, economic way to extend high-quality health care to all. It is a chapter of Physicians for a  National Health Program of which she is on the national board. She has won many awards, including the Council for Children Dolly award for child advocacy, the Mecklenburg County Medical  Society President's Award, and the YWCA Woman of Achievement award. A graduate of Oberlin College and Tufts University School of Medicine, she did her family medicine residency at Duke. She is married and has 4 children and 2 grandchildren Unlock Bonus content and get the shows early on our Patreon Follow us or Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Amazon  | Spotify --- Show notes at https://rxforsuccesspodcast.com/84 Music by Ryan Jones. Find Ryan on Instagram at _ryjones_, Contact Ryan at [email protected]