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Lifelines : a doctor's journey in the fight for public health / Leana Wen.

by Wen, Leana S.

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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

616.025092 W467L

Chinese American women -- Biography.

Women physicians -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Biography.

Medical policy.

9781250186232 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Doctor's journey in the fight for public health

xii, 334 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

"Public health expert Leana Wen gives an insider's account of public health and its crucial role: from opioid addiction to global pandemic, and tells an inspiring story of her journey from homeless immigrant to being named one of 'Time's 100 Most Influential People.'"-- From publisher.

"'Public health saved your life today -- you just don’t know it,' is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen -- emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist -- has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Delivered with gripping storytelling and unmatched authority, the book offers an uplifting memoir, a window onto the inner workings of public health, and a galvanizing call to understand health as a fundamental human right. Ultimately, Wen insist, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life and that where children live does not determine whether they live."--From publisher.

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