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Community Health: Just What the Doctor Ordered

September 18th, 2014
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Community Health: Just What the Doctor Ordered

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Doctors and nurses thinking about transportation and housing? In this powerful TED talk, Rishi Manchanda, a Los Angeles provider with a background in serving society’s most vulnerable communities, emphasizes the importance of “paying attention to a patient’s life outside the exam room”.

Rishi Manchanda believes that “one’s zip code matters more than your genetic code” and explains what it means to be an “upstreamist”. We think it sounds a lot like community health in action.