I sometimes wonder how much of me is the last of the old traditional country doctor and how much of me is a doctor of the future. Can you be both?
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Accompaniment is an expansive idea, encompassing both the moral center of social medicine and a pragmatic tool for global health delivery. In honor of our friend, colleague, and accompagnateur Paul Farmer, a proseminar from partners at Harvard Medical School, Partners in Health, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital about the meaning and practice of accompaniment.
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Primary care is a site of both tradition and renewal in Native America, with a broad charge to support individual, family, and community health. From course director Sagar Raju, a proseminar on the role and practice of primary care in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.
To accompany someone is to go somewhere with him or her, to be present on a journey with a beginning and an end: ‘I’ll share your fate for awhile’ — and by awhile I don’t mean a little while.
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A Fortunate Man
John Berger and Jean Mohr / 1967
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In the impoverished rural community in which he works, John Sassall tends the maimed, the dying, and the lonely. He is not only the dispenser of cures but the repository of memories. As John Berger and Jean Mohr follow Sassall about his rounds, they produce a book whose careful detail broadens into a meditation on the value we assign a human life.
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Rationalizing Epidemics
David Jones / 2004
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Historian David Jones examines how European settlers explained and rationalized the epidemics that decimated Native populations during colonization. Century after century, they tried to understand the causes of epidemics, the vulnerability of American Indians, and the persistence of health disparities.
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