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September 2009, Vol 99, No. 9 | American Journal of Public Health 1546-1548
© 2009 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.160853

EDITORIAL

A Plea For Cost-Effectiveness, or at Least Avoiding Public Health Malpractice

Leslie F. Roberts, PhD, MSPH

The author is with the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, NY.

Correspondence: Correspondence should be sent to Leslie F. Roberts, Program on Forced Migration and Health, Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 60 Haven St., B-2, New York, New York 10032 (e-mail: lfr2102@columbia.edu). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the "Reprints/Eprints" link.

Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

I had a wonderful experience with one of our medical residents last month. He is a great guy. He quit his emergency room job and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, when Hurricane Katrina struck. In class he never cared about grades, only learning. Last year during his internship in a Thai refugee camp, he encountered a child suffering from a treatable form of cancer. The cash-strapped nongovernmental organization hosting my friend flatly refused to spend the $10 000 needed to save the boy's life. He proposed to the director of his fellowship that she simply spend the fellow's travel budget . . . [Full Text]






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