A call to service: social justice is a public health issue.

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Associate director of the Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, and an associate physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a founding member and past president of Physicians for a National Health Program.

Published: September 2014

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