The patients we do not see
For many of the nation's poor, food and shelter are more important than health care. Questions of insurance coverage loom broadly, but another question lingers: how to treat the poor we do not see.
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical Ethics, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Physician, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Assistant Professor of Population Health, New York University Langone Medical Center
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Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, New York University Langone Medical Center