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Five years ago, the College profiled alumna Dr. Caroline Johnson (�97), who, as a traveling internist, was the portrait of versatility. A member of the Rural Physicians Group, she spent about 30 weeks out of the year working round-the-clock shifts that ranged from 7 to 21 days at remote hospitals across the United States.

�Usually the hospital will have an emergency-room doctor, but for everything else, it�s me,� she said. �It can be anything from an infection of the skin to someone coming in with pain in the chest. In extreme cases, we can airlift a patient elsewhere, but for the most part, we don�t have the benefit of a specialist. I can�t call in a gastrointestinal doctor to come see a case of liver disease. It�s up to me. I have to be prepared for situations I could not possibly have expected.�

In the five years since the publication of that profile, Dr. Johnson has found ways to become ever-more versatile.

In 2013 she returned to Phoenix, where, in addition to working as a hospitalist, she took on the role of a clinical instructor at the Midwestern University�s Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. Then, in 2015, she undertook a two-year nephrology fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, after which she relocated to Texas. �I am now working as a Transplant Nephrologist in the Baylor system,� she writes. �I am Board-certified in three specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics, and nephrology, with a special area of focus in transplant.�

Please pray for Dr. Johnson�s good work and for her patients. �As doctors, we need to have a basic recognition of who we are in relation to God and the world, and a sense of humility,� she said in 2013. �Although there is much we cannot do, there is also so much we can do. It is our gift to help others in their suffering.�