Full Circle Care - Samantha’s Story

For Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er Saman­tha P., her jour­ney in health­care has come full cir­cle. She returned to the same office where she was once a patient, work­ing along­side Duly fam­i­ly med­i­cine physi­cian, Dr. Scott Love, who has been her pri­ma­ry care physi­cian since she was just three months old.

Saman­tha and Dr. Love have a unique work­ing rela­tion­ship. Their sto­ry began long before Samantha’s career in med­i­cine took shape, when her moth­er took her into Dr. Love’s office in a moment of urgent need. 

“He was some­one that fit her in right away when she was hav­ing a ​‘freak-out mom moment.”

Impressed by Dr. Love’s care, Samantha’s moth­er then moved the entire fam­i­ly to his practice.

As she grew up, Saman­tha felt inspired to fol­low in the foot­steps of the com­pas­sion­ate providers who cared for her, decid­ing to pur­sue a career as a fam­i­ly med­i­cine nurse practitioner. 

Deter­mined to learn from the best, Saman­tha asked Dr. Love if she could shad­ow him for her clin­i­cal rota­tions. With­out hes­i­ta­tion, he agreed, kick­start­ing their pro­fes­sion­al rela­tion­ship. Saman­tha felt at home in the office, know­ing many of the staff from her days as a patient. Saman­tha said it was great to ​“grow with them not only as a patient, but as a coworker.” 

As Saman­tha advanced in her nurs­ing career, Dr. Love became not only her men­tor, but her col­league. She recalled the way he always puts his patients first, even if it meant squeez­ing them into an already packed schedule. 

“As a doc­tor, he’s a very rare breed,” she shared. ​“He’s just bril­liant. He not only knows a lot of infor­ma­tion, but he’s real­ly good at teach­ing that information.” 

As a nurse prac­ti­tion­er, Saman­tha under­stands the val­ue of long-term patient-provider rela­tion­ships, believ­ing that stay­ing with the same pri­ma­ry care physi­cian over the course of your life cre­ates a con­ti­nu­ity of care that leads to bet­ter outcomes. 

This belief is reflect­ed in her own fam­i­ly, as her chil­dren are also patients of Dr. Love, fos­ter­ing a multi­gen­er­a­tional rela­tion­ship built on care, com­pas­sion, and trust. 

“I told Dr. Love, ​‘You can’t retire. What am I going to do?” Saman­tha joked. Saman­tha and Dr. Love have grown togeth­er through the years both pro­fes­sion­al­ly and per­son­al­ly. As a part of Dr. Love’s health­care team, Saman­tha is proud to offer the same lev­el of care that made her feel like family.