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New JoPM Commentary: “Healthcare: A Human Rights and Economic Justice Issue”

By  | March 8, 2011
Categories: JoPM|Policy Issues

JoPM logoJoPM has just published Healthcare: A Human Rights and Economic Justice Issue, a commentary by SPM member Kathleen McCaffrey Friedman. Drawing on her experiences as an empowered patient, Friedman argues: “It ultimately falls to us, the patients, to frame health care as a human right and matter of economic justice, alongside national security, public education, and disaster relief.”

 

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Kathleen O'Malley

Kathleen O'Malley has served as the Managing Editor of the Journal of Participatory Medicine since 2010. Before that, she worked as an acquisitions editor and managed the Publishers’ Circle journal licensing program at Medscape for many years. She was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer in 2008 and continues to thrive, thanks in great part to a caring group of surgeons, physicians, nurses, social workers and fellow survivors who all practice participatory medicine.

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