At the time, I was finishing my residency, and serving as a doctor in a prison wasn’t even on my radar,” she said. “I got a call from Carolyn Ford at the National Health Corps telling me that prisons were in dire need of medical personnel. The latter didn’t require Gedney and her husband to relocate. She was given the choice between Cabrini-Green, a public housing complex in Chicago, or the Northern Nevada Corrections Center in Carson City. However, the scholarship required that she complete four years of service in an underserved area. She was awarded a Health Corps scholarship for her medical degree that she earned from the University of Cincinnati Medical School and her residency, which was completed at the University of Nevada, Reno. Gedney to a career that quickly became a calling. Today she is an outspoken advocate for Holistic Prison Reform. Dr Gedney is an internal medicine specialist who spent almost three decades as a physician in Nevada's correctional system. The featured speaker at Monday's Democratic luncheon will be Karen Gedney MD, author of 30 Years Behind Bars: Trials of a Prison Doctor.
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