Doctors and nurses are not enough
July 19, 2011 -- Today I shook the hand of yet another spirited and passionate public servant, Fiona Ma, California Assemblymember from my University's San Francisco district. Her work spans many issues but for me the one of most interest is, of course, health care. Ms Ma's cause celebre in this arena is advocacy for Hepatitis B -- education, screening, vaccination, treatment and San Francisco's Hep B Free program. This is yet another ground-breaking collaboration between government and health care providers. We do a lot of that here; we are leaders! Health care services are not enough. Public advocacy is another essential component and people like Ms Ma make it happen. |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798