San Francisco: Somewhere between five and ten thousand people poured out of Crissy Field along the San Francisco Bay to walk the 4.5 mile roundtrip across the Golden Gate Bridge. This march was largely organized by the Service Employees International Union to coordinate with the SEIU quadrennial convention being held at the same time. The weather …
Category: Health Care
Missing Health Care
New Orleans: Yesterday returning to New Orleans – and home – seemed full of surprises. Spring was everywhere. Pink and white azeleas were blooming around the house. New growth had the bright green unique to the season. Another pleasant surprise was a dear note from a companera, Terese Bouey, who sent along some of her …
Cuba: Health Care
Havana, Cuba: I recently read an extended mash note of a book by Tracey Kidder called Mountain to Mountain about Dr. Paul Farmer, a unique public health doctor with a practice in the central plains of Haiti, Peru, and Boston, who with others founded something called Partners in Health – Socios en Salud (www.pih.org). Besides …