My name is Jeff Baker,
and I'm a pediatrician,
I'm working at Duke Health Center
at Southpoint.
I've been working at Duke since 1989, as
a faculty since probably the early 1990s.
Duke pediatrics, we are part of
the Duke University Health System, but
I think we're an important
part of that system.
The Duke Health System has so
many resources,
it's just impossible to name them all.
But it's very critical
to have a pediatrician,
a general pediatrician that you
feel comfortable working with.
To really be your guide and,
really, your partner, I would say,
in approaching the health system.
Some of the most important contributions
I make are not in the clinic.
But it's that phone call, or some
intervention in between seeing patients.
And I think that's an important thing for
families to be thinking about,
will they have a doctor who will be
their advocate in between visits?
Hopefully a lot of the time,
a parent doesn't need that.
But I think it is really a great
advantage to have a relationship with
a pediatrician that you
feel comfortable with.
So that when that point comes when you
are encountering an issue that is more
complicated, you've got
somebody to work with.
I've had another life, in which I was
a history PhD in the history of medicine.
I've actually done work related to
history of vaccine controversies and
the history of autism.
