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You get on Google, you Google, and you find, actually the only people tested in Burkina Faso in 1991 are STD patients and pregnant women, which is not a terribly representative group of people.

And Doug was really disappointed to learn that nearly 80 percent of the pediatric patients in this hospital had to be sedated in order to deal with his MRI machine.

And his first hire was a legal services attorney to represent the patients.

The doctors, it seemed, never really had enough time for all the patients, try as they might.

And over the course of six months, I would corner them in the hallway and ask them a sort of naive but fundamental question: "If you had unlimited resources, what's the one thing you would give your patients?"

Patients are piling up in the clinic waiting room.

In that clinic, even today, there are two social workers for 24,000 pediatric patients, which is better than a lot of the clinics out there.

Patients then take their prescriptions to our desk in the clinic waiting room where we have a core of well-trained college student advocates who work side by side with these families to connect them out to the existing landscape of community resources.

But today we have a thousand college student advocates who are working to connect nearly 9,000 patients and their families with the resources that they need to be healthy.

And so many of his patients came in presenting with malnutrition that be began prescribing food for them.

Here we are, 45 years after Geiger has prescribed food for his patients, and I have doctors telling me, "On those issues, we practice a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."

How is it that if for decades we had a pretty straightforward tool for keeping patients, and especially low-income patients, healthy, that we didn't use it?

So just a few miles from here at Children's National Medical Center, when patients come into the doctor's office, they're asked a few questions.

So we thought, if we can get individual doctors to prescribe these basic resources for their patients, could we get an entire healthcare system to shift its presumption?

So now at Harlem Hospital Center when patients come in with an elevated body mass index, the electronic medical record automatically generates a prescription for Health Leads.

And our volunteers can then work with them to connect patients to healthy food and excercise programs in their communities.

So every day in this country three million patients pass through about 150,000 clinic waiting rooms in this country.

And that's what Health Leads has tried to do, to reclaim that real estate and that time and to use it as a gateway to connect patients to the resources they need to be healthy.

Unencumbered by clinical responsibilities, unwilling to take no for an answer from those bureaucracies that tend to crush patients, and with an unparalleled ability for information retrieval honed through years of using Google.

Now in the top 10 cities in the U.S. with the largest number of Medicaid patients, each of those has at least 20,000 college students.

And this isn't just a sort of short-term workforce to connect patients to basic resources, it's a next generation healthcare leadership pipeline who've spent two, three, four years in the clinic waiting room talking to patients about their most basic health needs.

And I sat down with him and I said, "Jeff, I have this idea that we could mobilize college students to address patients' most basic health needs."

Patients come to them, they want to do something.

Steve, both a lawyer and a psychologist, has treated many patients with severe mental illness, and to this day he'll say I was as bad as any he had ever seen.

In fact, until very recently, and I'm sure some people still hold it as a view, that restraints help psychiatric patients feel safe.

And what the DNA sequencing technologies are allowing people to do now is do detailed studies of, say, 100 patients who have Crohn's disease and 100 people who don't have Crohn's disease.

So we said, "What can we do with the ASHA worker that'll allow this ASHA worker to become an interesting filter, but not just a filter, a really well thought through referral system that allows load balancing of the network, and directs patients to different sources of health care based on the severity or the criticalness of those situations?"

How do we empower her with simple tools that's not diagnostic but more screening in nature so she at least knows how to advise the patients better?

He was leaning heavily against the wall, and the way we do with pillows to patients in a hospital, they were putting that stuff behind his back.

And it flew in the face of doctors' idea of themselves, which was as people who helped patients, they didn't harm them.

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