Medical Care Miscellany

Newsletter: We have a new Newsletter Editor – yours truly – so please send all items to: Linda Simoni-Wastila (lsimoniw@rx.umaryland.edu). PLEASE put MC NEWSLETTER in the header. I don’t know about you, but I get so much e-mail I get lost.

Please send professional accolades, personal milestones, and anything that brings a smile my way. I’ll make it happen.

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APHA Program Planning Chair José Josué Hernández has a new e-mail address effective June 1, 2009. Please contact him here: jose.hernandez38@upr.edu).

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I leave you with a poem in keeping with our theme. Remember the patients, the families, all the citizens who would benefit not only from a universal health care program but one that embraces the public’s health and focuses on prevention, truly the most cost-effective remedy…

Carmel Point

By Robinson Jeffers

The extraordinary patience of things! 
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of surburban houses-
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop rockheads-
Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine beauty
Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff.-As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from