Hi! My name is Talia Padmore, and Mobile Medical Man (MMM) was initially a class project for a Scripture class I took in my junior year of college. We were tasked with creating a medium through which we could use scriptural texts to help a community of our choosing. I was inspired by the community of patients I see at my job every weekend, especially the Black patients, many of whom have expressed their anxiety about being in a doctor’s office. Some of them have further cited personal experiences, friends and family, and even historic instances like Henrietta Lacks and the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” as further validation of their fears. The Black community is just one of many demographics with this concern; patients for whom English isn’t their first language, without higher education, and in areas without ample medical resources may also feel some anxiety when seeking medical care.

Thus, I created this website: a quick and easy resource for terminology related to several body systems. Each definition is simple and on a plain background to allow ease of use and navigation of the website while in an appointment or at the doctor’s office. If the user wants a more in-depth explanation, each definition links to more information from a reputable source. This website is still being updated and improved, including the addition of translations to additional languages and more information on general health resources.

This website has grown into a passion project to mend the relationship between marginalized communities and the medical world. Understanding that many individuals may distrust medical spaces due to a long history of experimentation, miscommunication, and abuse, this website can serve as a resource to help patients feel more knowledgeable and in control of their medical visits. I hope that this website encourages patients to seek out needed medical care despite anxiety of a lack of medical knowledge, personal experience, or knowledge of the rocky past of their community in medicine. When people of these communities feel more confident in seeking out medical care, their health outcomes will hopefully increase substantially.