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Most of the people who make decisions about global health are in the U.S. and Western Europe. There, the mental health care system is dominated by highly trained, expensive professionals in big hospitals, who often see patients over long periods of time. This simply can't be done in rural Africa or India. Who the hell can afford that kind of care?
Vikram Patel
Time
Health
People
Mental Health
Care
Long
Big
Hell
System
Kind
India
Rural
See
About
Mental
Long Periods
Hospitals
Simply
Highly
Over
Global
Most
Periods
Make
Health Care
Health Care System
Western
Western Europe
Dominated
Trained
Afford
Done
Often
Expensive
Africa
Patients
Decisions
Who
Europe
Professionals
Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
Virginia Postrel
Simply
Well
Make
Does
Deaths
Patients
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet encourages experimentation. Questionnaire-based pharmacies operate between the traditional prescription and over-the-counter models.
Virginia Postrel
Life
Internet
Doctors
Other
Relationships
Possible
Area
Between
Operate
Traditional
Encourages
Models
Patients
Different
Experimentation
Many
Among
Prescription
Desirable
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
Virginia Postrel
Doctors
Pay
Pay Attention
Pressures
Immune
Attention
Force
Private
Patients
Want
Medicare
Competitive
Having been a caregiver more times than I care to count, 'StandWith' lets caregivers and patients easily update their community and post targeted tasks that community members can accept.
Yael Cohen
Post
Care
Community
Easily
Members
Having
More
Count
Accept
Been
Targeted
Times
Update
Than
Tasks
Patients
Lets
Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
Yusuf Hamied
Day
Me
Suffering
Cancer
Thought
Thinking
AIDS
Gave
Else
One Day
Unnecessary
See
Could
Price
Look
How
Reducing
Been
Patients
Spare
Much
Satisfaction
There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.
Zig Ziglar
Life
Death
Best
Doctor
Lose
Despite
Some
Never
Part
Doctor Who
Understood
Been
Itself
Efforts
Did
Patients
Them
Who
Many
Served
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
Failure
Giving
White
Kidney
About
Percent
Rate
Make
Make Up
Greater
Up
Times
Than
American
Patients
African
African Americans
Them
Population
Treated
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful.
Yasmin Aga Khan
Mother
Become
Aggressive
Difficult
Changes
Extreme
Way
Mood
Would
Fearful
Had
She
Alzheimer
Very
Patients
Irritated
Many
Putting aside competitive interests for a new kind of collaboration, Maryland pioneered a real-time encounter notification service to alert primary care doctors when their patients are hospitalized.
Martin O'Malley
Service
Care
Doctors
Collaboration
Kind
Maryland
Primary
Putting
New
New Kind
Encounter
Patients
Aside
Interests
Competitive
Alert
Patients who have suffered appalling medical negligence, abused children ignored by social services, mistreated residents of care homes - they have all been given a voice by the Human Rights Act.
Emily Thornberry
Rights
Care
Human Rights
Negligence
Given
Voice
Abuse
Mistreated
Been
Human
Patients
Children
Social
Act
Ignored
Appalling
Who
Homes
Suffered
Medical
Residents
Services
Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
Xavier Becerra
Failure
Experience
Result
Chronic
Kidney
Deterioration
More
End
End Result
Disease
Gradual
Patients
Where
Which
Function
Twenty
Million
We need an NHS with fewer managers, fewer contractors and more power (rather than choice) to patients - with the input of the real experts: healthcare professionals.
John McDonnell
Power
Input
Rather
More
More Power
Healthcare
Real
NHS
Contractors
Than
Managers
Fewer
Patients
Experts
Choice
Professionals
Need
L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.
Michael Moore
City
About
Hospitals
Cruel
Talk
Patients
A large percentage of my father's patients were African-American.
Greg Iles
Father
Percentage
Were
Patients
African-American
Large
Large Percentage
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