This Interesting Story Of 92-Year-Old Practising Doctor, Melissa Freeman Will Inspire You

Dr Melissa Freeman has been practicing medicine for over 60 years and the 92-year old mom and grandma is sharing her inspiring story about how she became a doctor and her secret to long life and vitality.

At age 92, Dr Freeman splits her time between a private practice she’s run for nearly 40 years and a New York City clinic, treating people who are addicted to opioid drugs like heroin and oxycodone.

Freeman told Good Morning America that her grandfather was born a slave, but moved to New York in the late 1800s to start his family after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Her grandfather didn’t get an education but he made sure his children and grandchildren did. Freeman was recently honoured by Howard Medical College, her alma mater.

“My dad who, who came from rural Alabama, did not have the opportunity to get the education that he wanted to get. But he emphasized the importance of getting a high school and a college education,” Freeman said.

On her secret to longevity and vitality, she said:

“You do what you have to do. You have to move on,” Freeman told “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts. “As long as God gives you life and gives me strength, I’ll have to keep doing it, and he has been very, very merciful to me.”

Freeman, a native of the Bronx, still uses the subway to move around as she also works at a clinic. She graduated from medical school in 1955, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president and she started practicing medicine in 1961.

Today, Freeman treats between 150 and 200 patients each year. She sometimes stays at her practice as late as 9 p.m. to treat her patients, who range in age from 20 to 100.

Freeman, who practices internal medicine, typically starts her day working in the drug clinic. She then travels by subway to her private practice in Harlem.

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“I’m a New Yorker,” she said. “If I have to get somewhere and the subway is the best way to get there, I will board the subway and take it.”

With the ability to get where she needs to go, the aged grandma has no plans of slowing down. When asked about retirement, Dr Freeman said; “Not that I can see in the near future, no”.

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