Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?

Who cares for the nine million displaced people of Syria?

“Zaatari camp is considered the fourth biggest city in Jordan,” a volunteer medical coordinator who had recently been working there told me last week. She was speaking from the Paris headquarters of Doctors of the World. The charity asked us to keep its volunteers’ identities confidential as healthcare professionals and facilities have been targets for violence. Just inside the border, the Zaat...

Who Cares for People With Diabetes? We Do!

It is estimated that ~85% of people with diabetes are managed in primary care. Back in the day, primary care clinicians often referred patients to an endocrinologist once the decision was made to initiate insulin. Diabetes was considered too complex and too fraught with danger. So, once a primary care provider needed to proceed beyond metformin and sulfonylureas, the patient was referred to a s...

Who Cares for Children?

My search for answers began in Birmingham in 1932 with the scientific humanity of Leonard Parsons; it found its main direction in James Spence's Newcastle where, for fifteen of my twenty-seven years there I crossed almost daily the frontier between home and hospital to make some 3,000 visits to every kind of family in every circumstance of life. Then clinical and academic colleagues brought the...

Who cares for the children?

The authors report findings from a national study comparing congregationbased child care programs with other private and public programs. They found that 25% of child care is being provided by congregations, and that congregations are significantly more likely to be serving middle and upper-middle class children who pay flat rate fees, not low income children whose care is subsidized by governm...

Who cares?