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Transcript: Kamaki A. Kanahele

The patient is mine forever

[Lindberg:]
What about follow-up? You just made this pact with a patient or the family—is there a follow-up?
[Kanahele:]
Always, I need to go to their house. I need to find out how they’re doing. When I see them at the shopping center if I find out they’re not doing very well, I scold them and say “You’ll be coming to visit me,” and they themselves work hard not to come back to visit because the commitment of that prayer was a sacred commitment, you know, and in that light, by the way, because of that sacred commitment, I have the wonderful opportunity of scolding them when I have to. All of a sudden I become grandpa and father and parent to make sure that’s healed. The patient is mine forever.