{"id":96,"date":"2013-05-12T10:38:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T14:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2018-05-22T14:03:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T18:03:47","slug":"why-i-do-what-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/why-i-do-what-i-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Do What I Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-97 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NadalandMe-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nadal and Scott\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NadalandMe-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/NadalandMe.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I have been coming to the Trudi Birger DVI clinic in Jerusalem for 6 years now. You may think that my mission is to improve the dental health of the poor children of Jerusalem, and to some extent that\u2019s true, but there\u2019s more. I believe in\u201dTikkun Olam.\u201d Roughly translated that means to \u201cheal the world.\u201d And I don\u2019t mean one tooth at a time. The photo posted here is of me with Dr. Nadal Alayyan. He is an Arab Palestinian dentist who will cancel his patients to work at the DVI clinic. Why does he do this? It\u2019s because at the age of 7 he was one of the indigent children who came to the clinic for help. He was in pain for three days until a volunteer dentist attended to his needs. He has never forgotten the help he received and continues to donate his efforts to the clinic. It is because of stories like this one that I have hope for the future and will continue to do whatever little I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been coming to the Trudi Birger DVI clinic in Jerusalem for 6 years now. You may think that my mission is to improve the dental health of the poor children of Jerusalem, and to some extent that\u2019s true, but there\u2019s more. I believe in\u201dTikkun Olam.\u201d Roughly translated that means to \u201cheal the world.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Why I Do What I Do - Scott Dubowsky, DMD, FAGD<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drdubowsky.com\/why-i-do-what-i-do\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why I Do What I Do - Scott Dubowsky, DMD, FAGD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have been coming to the Trudi Birger DVI clinic in Jerusalem for 6 years now. 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