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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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.
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Social medicine means understanding the social forces that shape health — and delivering care that attends to those forces. From course director Linda Joule, a proseminar introducing clinicians to the history, meaning, and practice of social medicine.
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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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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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Lissa Yellow Bird searches for missing people. Cold cases, mostly. People no one else is looking for. It’s not her job, but a lot of Native Americans go missing and their cases remain unsolved, so families often ask Lissa for help.
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Lisa Stevenson explores the meaning and practice of care through two historical moments when life for the Canadian Inuit has hung in the balance: the tuberculosis epidemic and the subsequent suicide crisis.
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Wherever I go, people often say: ‘Well, we already know what works in our community. Our culture is our treatment.’
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Mental disorders are often diagnosed and treated as medical events, but evidence points to the importance of social context and social care. From course director Corina Kramer, a proseminar introducing health workers to ideas from anthropology and social medicine as they relate to Indigenous community mental health.