When Dr. Jim Hotz attended the medical school at Ohio State University, a specialist in infectious disease showed his grade A sliding of bacteria that cause tuberculosis.
“And he said,” You will probably not see another case of tuberculosis in your career, “” recalls Hotz, 75, for this post.
“I go down to Georgia and it was everywhere,” he said. “Only last year, we treated 21 people with tuberculosis.”
Hotz established the primary health care of the Albany area while serving from Southwest Georgia for 47 years. His work is highlighted in the short documentary of Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot “Doc Albany”, which premieres Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Dr. Hotz has spent his entire career making sure people in the rural community receive the care they need,” said the executive manufacturer “Doc Albany” Teresa Barreira. “He knows how to work the system and fight for his patients.”
Hotz is not a stranger for attention. He inspired Michael J. Fox of 1991 “Doc Hollywood”, in connection with a new Crackerjack who ends up in a small southern city making his big city dreams.
Hotz initially thought he would work in Athens, the home of the University of George, but instead found himself in Leesburg Rural, George.
He was accompanied by his brother -in -law, who had been his school room friend. The duo realized they could do nothing for a few years before moving to something bigger.
“What we didn’t understand was the tremendous challenge to go to a community that [hadn’t had] Doctors in 30, 40 years, “Hotz said.” So in a whole circuit, we were the only doctors. “
The first woman who came to see her had cervical cancer – “bleeding as big as your fist.”
“When you don’t have a health provider there, you get into some quite advanced diseases,” he said.
In addition to diseases, he has also treated farm injuries, poisoning from pesticides sprinkled in pecan orchards and snake bites.
“There were some boys outside the hunting pigs. There are wild pigs. They use dogs to shoot them. They run after them,” Hotz remembered.
“And these people were running barefoot through a marsh,” he continued. “One guy said,” I think I got up from a bee. “And I said, ‘That’s interesting.
In an unusual case, Hotz treated a laboratory work on the farm that developed cryptococcal meningitis, a serious fungal infection, from exposure to pigeon spots while working on a loft of hay.
“So there is a kind of those strange things that you get a lot of exposure,” he said. “I can’t tell you the number of people for whom we have taken care of who fell from the deer stands.”
Hunters tend to fall asleep on these platforms erected as they wait for the deer to enter the interval, Hotz said.
But the most common problems that the fields are high blood pressure, diabetes and overweight.
When he started, 3% of his patients were diabetic and 10% were thick.
“Now we are sitting in 70% thick,” Hotz said. “We manage 8,010 diabetics, 14,000 people with overweight, 16,000 people with hypertension.”
His medical group also treats about 1,400 HIV patients. He saw his first AIDS patient in 1983, when there was no local infrastructure to address the disease, so he developed a rural rural rural program.
Technology has sincerely transformed the health care landscape.
For example, the published sapon developed a digital system for establishing health care professionals in undeserved areas. The tool is presented at “Doc Albany”.
“If we can help more people like Dr. Hotz do their job, we can start closing the gaps in the health care approach across the country,” Barreira said, the leading marketing and communication official of SAPIENT has been published.
Limited sources have contributed to the last spread of tuberculosis, a disease that can be traced back to ancient Egypt.
Researchers blame Covid-19 pandemia for delaying diagnoses and antibiotic treatments, as well as increasing travel and migration from high prevalence areas.
Over 10.300 cases of bacterial lung infection were reported in the US last year, from about 9,600 to 2023. Kansas saw the largest jump due to an explosion in the Kansas City area.
At NYC, 839 cases of TB were recorded, an increase from 684 to 2023.
“What we have understood is that, if it hits the city of New York, there is no reason that cannot hit South Georgia,” Hotz said.
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