Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital celebrated Doctor's Day today by honoring their physicians.
Dr. Tamara Lewis, a resident at Phoebe Northwest, has been with the hospital for three years. Dr. John Inman has 55 years of medical service under his belt and has delivered over 9,000 babies in Albany. Both say they got into the profession to help others.
“Health care just seemed like a natural field, and once going through my classes I found that the patient interaction was the thing I enjoyed the most,” said Lewis.
“You don't go into medical school to get rich, at least I didn't. We didn't go to medical school to get rich, we made a good living and we worked for ourselves,” said Inman.
Inman says his junior college schooling cost him $160 a quarter and included three meals a day and room and board. He helped pay for his medical degree with three years of service in the U.S Armed Forces.
“I studied seven days a week, Saturday and Sunday and every day. We went to school six days a week and we had a full schedule. We didn't have much time for running around and having a good time, it was all school,” said Inman.
Lewis says loans for her undergraduate studies were close to $40,000 and medical school in excess of $100,000.
“It took a lot of long nights. Some days where I didn't get much sleep, 'bout four hours at a time, a lot of studying, but I kind of knew that's what I wanted to be and I would do what I had to do,” said Lewis
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