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Meet Dr. Godly Jack
Dr. Jack believes knowing his patients and their families personally is of the utmost importance. Not only do these moments help patients trust him, but he says understanding his patients and their families provides valuable insight into why patients make decisions that affect their hearts. With cardiology, understanding lifestyle or stressors can be extremely valuable.
“I want to know you, and I want your buy-in as a patient,” said Dr. Jack. “I want to be on your level and work with you as a partner with your health as the priority. The direction of your health care plan should be a team effort.”
Dr. Jack believes it is vital for patients to see that he has their best interests at heart, and this perspective has been central to his mission to become a physician since college. When he was 21, he attended a two-week clinical research experience in Ohio. There, he walked through his first catheterization lab. Seeing the work of interventional cardiologists up close, he said, “This is exactly what I want to do with my life.”
In those first experiences, Dr. Jack was fascinated by the depth of knowledge cardiology required – stress tests, electrocardiograms, echocardiograms and cardiac MRIs. Drawn to the challenge, he was also curious about the heart and all the knowledge it required.
Interventional Cardiology
Dr. Jack is more than a general cardiologist. As an interventional cardiologist, he received specialized training in minimally invasive catheter-based treatments for heart disease, congenital heart and structural heart conditions. This expertise allows him to perform procedures such as angioplasties, stent placements and valve repairs or replacements, reducing the likelihood his patients will need open-heart surgery in the future.
Describing the medical philosophy he developed while training as an interventional cardiologist, Dr. Jack said, “I am here to serve patients, and I would not be here without them. My goal is to stay focused on a patient-first mindset. I aim to consider every aspect of my patients as I care for them: their background, families, etc. I’m not just treating a heart. I am treating a citizen, a family member, a friend.”
Dr. Jack is also passionate about caring for medically-underserved populations. One of his most impactful seasons as a physician was serving in a small, under-resourced hospital in Kenya in a women’s ward. Looking back, he described his work as challenging because he was practicing without many of the common technologies and tools readily available to physicians in the United States. He was also moved by the compassion he witnessed as sick patients in the ward helped care for each other.
Beyond His Practice
Outside of the office, Dr. Jack enjoys opportunities to serve as a motivational speaker and has been invited to speak on topics beyond medicine such as educational mentoring, financial literacy and leadership training at events such as the National Leadership Institute hosted by the Student National Medical Association. Dr. Jack also loves to travel and said visiting places like the street markets of Phuket, Thailand expanded his horizons and impacted his outlook on life.
Dr. Jack is seeing patients at Harbin Clinic Cardiology Cartersville. To learn more about Dr. Jack and Harbin Clinic Cardiology Cartersville, visit harbinclinic.com.
