SCOTT, Ark. – A doctor-patient relationship is one of the most important a person can experience. It can be the difference between life and death. That’s why Dr. Aleobe Eruemulor, known as Dr. Ally to her patients, takes her responsibility to heart.
“What goes on in my mind is if this were my mother or this were my father or my brother or my sister, how would I want to make them feel,” Dr. Ally said.
Born and raised in Nigeria, Ally always knew she wanted to be a doctor. Her inspiration was her father, who is an OBGYN. She recalled sitting in the reception room as a child and watching her father’s patients come into the lobby with worried and concerned looks on their faces.
“After the interaction with my dad, it looked like something changed. They [the patients] just looked so different and in my child-like state,” she recalled. “I was like, ‘My dad must have some special sort of magic that he has to make these people feel better.’”
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