By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
What can health care learn from politics? Inspired by his son’s work on a political campaign, Dr. Donald Berwick, a pediatrician with a master’s degree in public policy, decided to find out. In 2004, at the age of 57, Berwick – and his organization,...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1999, during a cervical checkup, TV anchorwoman Ysabel Duron’s gynecologist discovered a golf ball-sized cancerous tumor in her pelvic region. The diagnosis: Hodgkin lymphoma. She felt healthy and, strangely, unworried. So Duron, who had been on the air in San...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After 35 years in medical practice, Dr. Eugene Cheslock was considering retiring in the late 1990s. Instead he went face to face with a problem he could no longer ignore – the increasing number of medically uninsured and the resulting strain on the health care...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
A community and labor organizer, Cleo Silvers worked for decades to bring underserved communities better health, job access and social justice. In the 1990s, incensed at high rates of asthma and infant mortality from pollution in her South Bronx neighborhood, she...
