Jordan Messler, MD, Instructor of
Medicine, Hospital Medicine Unit, Emory Department of Medicine is
organizing a workshop sponsored by The Center for Health, Culture
and Society to be held in Spring 2005 entitled "Past,
present,and future of public hospitals through the eyes of Grady
Memorial Hospital."
Objectives of the workshop:
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To better understand the history of public hospitals
in the U.S. and their impact on healthcare delivery. |
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To appreciate the impact of the teaching of young doctors
and nurses in an understaffed and overcrowded public hospital. |
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To understand the short- and long-term impact of segregation
in the lives of public hospital patients. |
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To trace the medical breakthroughs that have occurred at Grady
and estimate their impact on subsequent medical care, and to
explore the medical breakthroughs that took place at Grady. |
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To help light a better path for the future of public hospitals
by reviewing their history. |
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To chronicle the history of Grady for future generations. |
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In April, 2004, Dr. Messler gave
a presentation held in Emory's Rollins School of Public Health,
entitled "The History of Grady Hospital." |
