Interview with Jacque De Fouw 5

9. What do you feel is the most important lesson that you teach you medical students? What do you want to them to accomplish as a result of this knowledge?

One of my favorite quotes and I don’t know who said it, but “nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” I think that is very important. I think it’s something that the hospitals need to remember.

10. How do you think the education you received and taught would be affected if the United States had a globally run health care system?

The hospitals would be a lot different. I think that the hospitals and private clinics might have an easier road because they wouldn’t have to deal with so many insurance companies. They would have one entity. Perhaps, just like TennCare here in Tennessee, they would sell it through different companies. There are for profit companies that sell government health care plans. I think this clinic would probably be run the same as it is now; however, the funding might be different in that they might allocate money to college health care centers. All of the money that we receive is through student fees, that’s why we treat students and not faculty and staff. We do treat faculty, however, they have to pay.