As part of this week's poverty symposium, 'A Monstrous Octopus:  The Tentacles of Poverty' (http://monstrousoctopus.wordpress.com), which we hope all of you will attend,  Dartmouth undergraduates are invited to  a brunch with some of the key speakers at the event,  a delegation of Chinese medical students who are founders of the Sunshine and Love Free Clinic in Beijing  and Dr. James Withers, the event's keynote speaker and founder of the Street Medicine movement.  For those interested in global health, China, medical care systems, and the problems of health care for the indigent, this is an incredible opportunity to learn more.
Saturday, February 2, 11 AM
Paganucci Lounge ('53 Commons)
Brunch catered by Lou's.
Please RSVP to Professor Lee Witters ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Friday AM if you would like to attend (and tell your friends to, as well).

The Nathan Smith Society


“Student Run Free Clinic provides a Remedy to Migrant Workers’ Health Issues in Beijing, China”, Founders of the Sunshine and Love Free Clinic

[cid:9B369145-D8E2-4A58-8021-AF5B9197A450@Dartmouth.EDU]The founders of the Sunshine and Love Free Clinic in Beijing, China, will describe the incredible story of how they – six Peking University medical students working under tremendous economic, political, and social constraints – succeeded in establishing the first and only known student-run free clinic in Asia.  Since it opened its doors in Beijing in December 2010, the clinic has grown to include over 200 medical student volunteers and has served the health needs of over 100 patients, including a large population of former farmers-turned-migrant workers emblematic of the problems associated with the vast urban migration in post-Mao era China.



“One Bridge to the Next”, Dr. James S. Withers

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Dr. Jim Withers is a professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and the founder of Street Medicine Institute. He is the initiator and global leader of the Street Medicine movement. Since 1992, he has been providing medical care to Pittsburgh’s unsheltered homeless population. Through an organization, Operation Safety Net, Dr. Withers makes house calls to the homeless and envisions street medicine as a mission of mercy on a global scale. He has been invited to many different countries including Nigeria and China to promote the idea of street medicine. As an educator, he has built a “classroom” that would allow the students to work in the reality of the alienated and excluded poor of Pittsburgh as a Street Medicine Fellow. Dr. Withers and his street medicine partner, Mike Sallows, who was formerly homeless, share the philosophical belief that bringing care to people’s own reality will bridge the gap of care for those who are not able to or have no access to the health care system.