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Growing up in the Caribbean, Dr. Allyson Brotherson noticed that every doctor, no matter their specialty, had to know general medicine because it was the community’s greatest need. So when she moved from Trinidad to the United States to pursue medicine, she decided on general practice.
She ended up at Hennepin Healthcare, where her work is a daily reminder of “what it meant to be a doctor in a country like where I grew up,” she told MinnPost.
Today, Brotherson is the chair of the Hennepin County Medical Center Department of Family Medicine, which houses Minnesota’s largest family medicine residency training program at a single site…