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true story related to politics discussionFrom: Lilyan Kay (lilyan@u.washington.edu)Fri Aug 30 11:25:17 1996
I was acquainted with an ob-gyn physician who practices on the east coast. She was an unmarried welfare mother with a bunch of kids before she turned 20. She worked as a nurse's aid and went to school to become a practical nurse. She did this for awhile, then returned to school to get her RN license. While working as an RN she went back to school, and eventually gained admission to medical school, and then ob-gyn residency. Now she practices in a community where there are many girls in the same boat she once was. I ask you all, who is of greater benefit to this community and others like it - this doctor, or the vast majority who will be educated in a system that disregards the needs of minorities and the poor? Certainly she is a rare and exceptional individual. Without 2 things, however, she could never have realized her potential - (1) a great mother who gave her every support she could and (2) a political climate that enabled the social programs that nurture such individuals. We still have many great mothers, thank God, but how sad that in these times we have become so selfish and greedy as a nation that one can barely distinguish a difference between the Republicans' 'contract on America' and the Democrats' political machinations. Lily Kay CNM MS MPH Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound King County Health Department Seattle, Wash.
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