Sahil Hogarty, a sophomore at Davidson College, comes from a family of doctors. He feels blessed to continue his family’s legacy in the medical field. When his mom, Dr. Suneya Hogarty suggested that Sahil seek out a summer internship with Literacy Connections, he walked in with an open mind not knowing much about literacy in the community.
Sahil’s summer provided a trifecta of experiences including shadowing doctors, tutoring literacy students, and bringing it all together in a Literacy Connections’ podcast called MedCast. MedCast is a series of nine conversations with medical professionals from a broad spectrum of healthcare services in our community. Through these conversations he explored the perspectives and impact that low literacy has on access to healthcare, patient compliance, maintaining good health, and the financial strain low literacy has on healthcare resources.
