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The emergency room doctors said, "We've run some tests, Veronica.
In healthcare, we have that first friend — we have the specialist, we have the trauma surgeon, the ICU nurse, the E.R. doctors.
Now you might ask, and it's a very obvious question that a lot of colleagues in medicine ask: "Doctors and nurses thinking about transportation and housing?
Scientists now know that the living and working conditions that we all are part of have more than twice the impact on our health than does our genetic code, and living and working conditions, the structures of our environments, the ways in which our social fabric is woven together, and the impact those have on our behaviors, all together, those have more than five times the impact on our health than do all the pills and procedures administered by doctors and hospitals combined.
In that follow-up visit, she said, "Why did none of my doctors ask about my home before?
We pay doctors and hospitals usually for the number of services they provide, but not necessarily on how healthy they make you.
It's not that doctors don't know these are important issues.
In a recent survey done in the U.S. among physicians, over 1,000 physicians, 80 percent of them actually said that they know that their patients' upstream problems are as important as their health issues, as their medical problems, and yet despite that widespread awareness of the importance of upstream issues, only one in five doctors said they had any sense of confidence to address those issues, to improve health where it begins.
Now, there are many upstreamists, and I've had the privilege of meeting many of them, in Los Angeles and in other parts of the country and around the world, and it's important to note that upstreamists sometimes are doctors, but they need not be.
Doctors and nurses can get better at asking about the context of patients' lives, not simply because it's better bedside manner, but frankly, because it's a better standard of care.
We can start by simply going to our doctors and our nurses, to our clinics, and asking, "Is there something in where I live and where I work that I should be aware of?"
If we're all able to do this work, doctors and healthcare systems, payers, and all of us together, we'll realize something about health.
So with the patient's consent, the doctors asked him what happened when they electrically stimulated that part of his brain.
Leeches, nature's tiny doctors.
Because of her, two children had a chance they never would have had otherwise and would go on to save lives in the medical field as medical doctors.
When I got to hospital, the doctors thought I was going to die, and when I realized what was happening to me, I thought that dying might have been ... might have been the best outcome.
I made all the complicated decisions with the doctors, I climbed right into that raging river over rapids that was sweeping Mark along.
Ninety percent of them would never have left home at all if it weren't for a scholarship to study medicine in Cuba and a commitment to go back to places like the ones they'd come from — remote farmlands, mountains, ghettos — to become doctors for people like themselves, to walk the walk.
Havana's Latin American Medical School: It's the largest medical school in the world, graduating 23,000 young doctors since its first class of 2005, with nearly 10,000 more in the pipeline.
They're recruited from the poorest, most broken places on our planet by a school that believes they can become not just the good but the excellent physicians their communities desperately need, that they will practice where most doctors don't, in places not only poor but oftentimes dangerous, carrying venom antidotes in their backpacks or navigating neighborhoods riddled by drugs, gangs and bullets, their home ground.
Hundreds of Cuban doctors volunteered for disaster response, but when they got there, they found a bigger disaster: whole communities with no healthcare, doors bolted shut on rural hospitals for lack of staff, and just too many babies dying before their first birthday.
What would happen when these Cuban doctors left?
New doctors were needed to make care sustainable, but where would they come from?
First, they just don't have enough doctors, and where they do, their distribution is skewed against the poor, because our global health crisis is fed by a crisis in human resources.
Doctors are concentrated in the cities, where only half the world's people live, and within cities, not in the shantytowns or South L.A.
The United States is the number one importer of doctors from developing countries.
Upon graduation, these doctors share their knowledge with nurse's aids, midwives, community health workers, to help them become better at what they do, not to replace them, to work with shamans and traditional healers.
Three hundred forty Cuban doctors were already on the ground long term.
So in the best case scenarios, these graduates are staffing and thus strengthening public health systems, where often they're the only doctors around.
We need to do much more globally to give these new doctors the opportunity to prove their mettle.
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