Opinion: How Instagram gave hope to a mother — and her daughter’s doctor
I am not a fan of Instagram. As a physician who grew up and trained for a medical career in the era before social media, I’ve been skeptical that this form of communication can truly inform or accurately convey medical information or facts. But an encounter with Isabella and her mother opened my eyes to the hidden power of this social media platform.
It was hard to miss Isabella in the hallway of Robert Reid Cabral Hospital in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The narrow corridor was filled with children running and playing between the plastic chairs lining each wall where their parents sat and waited, sometimes for hours, hoping to have their children evaluated by our medical team in the hopes of finding a diagnosis and a treatment plan for the breathing, speaking, or swallowing problems that the local health care teams were having trouble understanding and solving.
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