Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? At TEDMED she describes Health Leads, an organization that does just that — and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports team.
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As a Public Health Major I really enjoyed this and inspire to hopefully have this type of impact!
Truly insightful talk!
Now that's what I call an amazing caring being. Yes "Health Care" the one that really cares. Thank you Rebecca.
What about you start eating healthy so you are not a fat sloop, taking about health!
Edit. Sorry I didn't realize that being fat is the norm
I'm interested in getting involved in this please let me know how I can get in touch with Rebecca
My class brought me here. But she aont lyin yall. This is truth.
Great speech, Great Vision.
That was incredible ..hats off
This psychopath tortures cockroaches with a hot glue gun.
The crazy part about this, this was uploaded in 2012 and only 108,000 views. Where in more cases than none you can get more views watching people eat spicy wings than something that matters. Well done world, you never cease to amaze me..
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In impoverished neighborhoods across America, poverty is a leading cause of illness. The US health care system is set up to treat ailments rather than to prevent them.
Health Leads is a program that tackles the social and economic root causes of illness, and its doctors prescribe food and heat to those in need, just as they would drugs.
Health Leads’ medics assemble detailed electronic patient histories that provide doctors with crucial information to make appropriate clinical assessments and provide treatment beyond the examining room.
This approach transforms the clinic waiting room into an arena where volunteers can intervene to help improve patients’ living conditions.
Operating such a program requires enormous manpower. Health Leads recruits and develops student advocates in a manner similar to college athletic programs.
We need minds like this in government if we ever want real change. And not just one or two, a majority.
A ham planet talking about health?
HAHA.
These obeasts deserve nothing but contempt and disgust.
Fat shaming needs to become not only acceptable but encouraged as the only form of communication with tats.
Hard to listen to someone that's obese talk about health issues. Like, you can't keep yourself at a healthy weight, you have nothing to offer on this subject. Go for a run instead.
So can I bill my insurance for my vacation I need for my mental health??
"When you have a vision, you have an obligation to realize that vision." I couldn't agree more
Great speech and kudos to following your vision.
Brilliant, – impassioned, rational and inspirational! The only thing missing was a call for patients to share the responsibility for their own health. Part of the system that Rebecca identifies as problematic is the traditional role of the doctor as expert who takes responsibility for health outcomes and the role of the patient who has been trained to be passive and compliant, but not proactively responsible for making healthy choices
Patients in the waiting room can brink their own books, laptops and rosaries to keep themselves productive. Maybe they want to sit around and have a rest before having their BP taken?