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karynnj

(59,474 posts)
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 03:40 PM Sep 2012

Dr Vanessa Kerry has created a partnership with the Peace Corps to send doctors and nurses abroad.



The 35-year-old physician — a daughter of Sen. John Kerry — has created a partnership with the Peace Corps to send doctors and nurses abroad. In return a non-profit pays off part of school loans.

"It's a Peace Corps for doctors and nurses," Kerry tells Shots. The goal of the Global Health Service Partnership, as it is tentatively called, is to reduce the severe shortage of medical workers in developing countries.

But she thinks the partnership will also strengthen health care here stateside by infusing U.S. doctors with a worldview centered on making the most of available resources. That's not exactly the prevailing philosophy of medicine as it's practiced stateside.

"There's evidence people come back with better clinical skills, better appreciation of needs, more likely to work in underserved specialties," she says.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/18/161381770/a-peace-corps-for-doctors-built-by-a-senators-daughter

Dr Kerry was extremely impressive as an advocate for her dad in 2004, but this is far more impressive.
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Dr Vanessa Kerry has created a partnership with the Peace Corps to send doctors and nurses abroad. (Original Post) karynnj Sep 2012 OP
kick bigtree Sep 2012 #1
it's always nice to see someone who could do anything they wanted JI7 Sep 2012 #2

JI7

(89,172 posts)
2. it's always nice to see someone who could do anything they wanted
Wed Sep 26, 2012, 04:47 PM
Sep 2012

actually try to make something of themselves by making things better for others. she takes after him but rather than through politics she went into medicine.

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