When Poverty and Unemployment Are Misdiagnosed . . . The Limits of “Medicine”

“I diagnosed ‘abdominal pain’ when the real problem was hunger,” admits Dr. Laura Gottlieb in a wonderfully candid Op-ed that explains why physicians so often fail to recognize poverty as the true cause of what appears to be a physical... Read More...

Read the complete post at http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2011/05/when-poverty-and-unemployment-are-misdiagnosed-the-limits-of-medicine.html


Posted May 04 2011, 08:32 AM by Health Beat