Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health - Couverture rigide

Wen, Leana

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ISBN 10 : 1250186234 ISBN 13 : 9781250186232

Editeur : St Martin's Press, 2021

Synopsis

From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines<\/i> is an insider\x27s account of public health and its crucial role\-\-from opioid addiction to global pandemic\-\-and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time\x27s<\/i> 100 Most Influential People.<\/b> \x26#34;Public health saved your life today\-\-you just don\x27t know it,\x26#34; is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don\x27t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID\-19. Leana Wen\-\-emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post<\/i> contributing columnist\-\-has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID\-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where<\/i> children live does not determine whether<\/i> they live.<\/p>

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À propos de l'auteur

<b>Dr. Leana Wen </b>is an emergency physician, public health professor at George Washington University, and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is also a contributing columnist for the <i>Washington Post</i> and a CNN medical analyst. Previously, she served as Baltimore's health commissioner, where she led the nation's oldest continuously operating public health department. She is the author of the patient advocacy book, <i>When Doctors Don't Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests</i>. Dr. Wen lives with her husband and their two young children in Baltimore.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: St Martin's Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1250186234
• ISBN 13: 9781250186232
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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