She's here for a follow up visit. Last visit was in October 2009.
Narrator:
Dr. Kimberly Manning became a physician – in part – because her father could not.
Kimberly D. Manning, MD:
His college counselor told him, in 1961, that he couldn't go to medical school.
That he was a black man in Birmingham, Alabama, and that the likelihood of him getting a job and getting into medical school was very low.
He told me that story when I was maybe a junior in high school. Maybe as a bit of an homage him, I really started wanting to go to medical school.
Why don't you wait and see what her wet prep shows first.
Narrator:
Today, she leads rounds, overseeing Emory University residents at Grady Hospital in inner city Atlanta.
Board certified both as a pediatrician and an internist.
Who is her support system at home?
Narrator:
She strongly believes in a humanist approach to medicine.
Sounds like at 19 you have a lot of stuff going on right now.
Kimberly D. Manning, MD :
I'm not here just treating patients like they're mannequins.
You've probably felt us do this to you before.
Kimberly D. Manning, MD :
I am living out my passion in terms of being a teaching physician.
Go ahead and see what you feel here.
Kimberly D. Manning, MD :
…being a role model, but also just having this opportunity to walk in and humanize our patients.
Newscast:
The Good Doctor Is In — Today Dr. Kimberly Manning shares some of her favorite things for a healthy lifestyle.
Narrator:
Dr. Manning offers guidance outside the hospital and over the airwaves – making weekly Morning House Calls on local TV.
Ok. Do you want to try to do the whole thing?
Narrator:
But above all – family comes first.
Kimberly D. Manning, MD :
I know that the balance that I have in getting home to my kids, to pick them up from school every day,
…The sky began to glow
Kimberly D. Manning, MD :
...reading them stories at night...
…before the sun rises too high…
Kimberly D. Manning, MD :
Hanging out with them and my husband every day, those are things that, I think, make me a better doctor.
What she sees at home – she enthusiastically shares with new parents.
Now I sort of know that each little step, they just change so fast. I mean, what you see at the newborn period, next three months, to four months, to six months, it is dramatic.
And I often do tell moms, look, no one knows your baby like you. Cut yourself some slack, but also enjoy your baby. Just enjoy your baby.
