A Day In Her Life Interview With Dr. Tomekia Strickland
Dr. Tomekia Strickland A Day In Her Life: Dr. Tomekia Strickland, Obstetrician and Women’s Health/Maternal Child Health Advocate at Tucson Medical Center in Arizona. Her Day Begins… Early with a simple tweet quoting the legendary journalist Belva Davis that reads, “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you dream it, you can make it so.” The inspirational quote could just as easily summarize Dr. Tomekia Strickland’s spirit and life mantra as a compassionate physician on a never-ending quest to help heal the human spirit, using medicine as her medium. Her main goal, as she will tell you, is to “help, heal, love, inspire” each and every day. The minute the hospital doors swing open that morning, she’s on. More than likely the day will be intense and rushed, and it could easily proceed well into the next day depending on what awaits her when she arrives. The days for an obstetrician can be a rapid sequence of rewarding, sometimes heart wrenching moments o