PHM-Exch> Doctors for the 99%: Physicians Participate At the Wall Street Occupation

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Matt Anderson <bronxdoc at gmail.com>

I wanted to share a bit of the excitement and energy of the Wall Street
Occupation.  I've put up a posting on the Social Medicine Portal (at:
http://wp.me/plAxa-1to).

Briefly, the long-overdue "occupation" of Wall Street began 23 days ago on
September 17th. As it enters its fourth week, there is no sign that the
occupation is slowing down.  In fact, there are currently "Occupy
Together<http://www.occupytogether.org/>"
Meet-ups in 1,112 cities across the US with 83 confirmed
occupations<https://www.facebook.com/notes/occupy-together/daily-check-in-where-are-you-occupying/302421216439027>
across
the world.

This week saw significant representation by progressive doctors in the
protests on Wednesday, October 5 and Saturday October 8.  Many of us were
associated either with the Physicians for a National Health
Program<http://www.pnhp.org/>,
the National Physicians Alliance <http://npalliance.org/> or a Bronx-based
residency program in social medicine.  [There were far more nurses at the
protest largely because far more nurses are unionized.]  The blog posting
includes  pictures and video clips highlighting a protest effort which has
come to be called: Doctors for the 99%.
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