A prescription of relatable warmth, administered with doses of direct honesty, are Dr Jodi Jackto-Tafari’s distinct calling cards.
The family physician’s endearing personality has secured fierce loyalty among patients, so much so that patient retention at her St James-based practice, Sekhmet Medical Center, is understandably high. While in a medical capacity, she believes her ‘secret sauce’ that keeps patients returning is authenticity.
“I wear my emotions on my sleeve and tell you how it is. I tell you the plain truth, and patients love that. Apart from that is discernment, and that’s a gift. I don’t think I could have asked or wished for that. Patients would come in, and sometimes they are saying something, but it’s not really what is going on. It is your discernment. Doctors are social scientists. They just have to learn how to discern well,” a proud Jackto-Tafari declared of her now six-year-old multidoctor business in Bogue, Montego Bay, which also houses other medical practitioners. Among them are a gynaecologist, paediatrician, neurosurgeon, orthopaedic surgeon, and nutritionist…. read more.