Newly minted M.D. Viviany Taqueti works with Family Van, an HMS program that provides medical care to some of Boston’s poorer neighborhoods. ‘The van helps to overcome monetary and cultural barriers, and to reduce the intimidation and confusion that many people feel in trying to deal with Boston’s massive health care system. When I heard about it, I had to find time for it.’ Staff photo Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office |
Viviany Taqueti: Writer, doctor, public servantJune 7, 2007By William J. Cromie
As a young girl, Viviany Taqueti followed her doctor father as he made rounds in the two hospitals he built in the jungles of Brazil. Sitting on the banks of the muddy, mighty Amazon River, Taqueti decided that she wanted to be like him, a person who improves the lives of others and who believes that you can do anything you set your mind to. Today, she sits near the banks of the Charles River, a petite 25-year-old who just earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School and who has learned not to think much about the obstacles to becoming a physician, scientist, teacher, and writer — all at once. |
