The Poverty Clinic
Can a stressful childhood make you a sick adult?
Nadine Burke, dark-skinned and disarming, grew up in Palo Alto, where girls cried in the cafeteria if they didn't get the right car for their sixteenth birthday. Now she treats children in Bayview—learning that her patients often share a history: foster care, violence, parental abandonment. Childhood trauma lodges in the body.