{"id":207,"date":"2012-08-14T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2012-08-14T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T23:35:00","slug":"health-the-american-dream-or-just-a-dream-doctors-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Health &#8211; The American Dream or just a Dream? &#8211; Doctors for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drsforamerica.org\/blog\/health-the-american-dream-or-just-a-dream?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+drsforamerica%2FnMEt+%28Progress+Notes%29\">Health &#8211; The American Dream or just a Dream? &#8211; Doctors for America<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The greater the income inequality, the worse those countries do on the health and social problems index.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Can you guess which country did the worst?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sadly, our very own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>If you don\u2019t have time to read the book, I encourage you to take a look at Richard Wilkinson\u2019s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/richard_wilkinson.html\">TED talk<\/a> which provides a glimpse of the remarkable evidence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As physicians we have dedicated our lives to improving the health of our patients using evidence-based medicine to make decisions about medications and treatments for patients\u2026  Can we also use this evidence to write a prescription to make our society more equal and therefore healthier for all of us? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>I highly recommend the TED talk linked to above!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health &#8211; The American Dream or just a Dream? &#8211; Doctors for America The greater the income inequality, the worse those countries do on the health and social problems index. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health &#8211; The American Dream or just a Dream? &#8211; Doctors for America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-disparities","category-social-justice"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}