Featuring Prabhjot Singh
In 2011, Dr. Prabhjot Singh attended the funeral of one of his patients, whom he calls Ray. He describes in his book, Dying and Living in the Neighborhood, a Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise, how Ray, a veteran, struggled mightily with a host of chronic illnesses, unemployment, and isolation in his neighborhood, and how he thinks all of those factors both medical related and non-medically related, contributed to Ray’s early death. We all can call to mind patients for whom factors completely outside of healthcare determined their poor or good health outcomes. In his book, Dr. Singh puts forward a neighborhood vision of healthcare and how we can achieve a healthcare system that can meet our patient’s needs.
Prabhjot Singh is the Director of the Arnold Institute for Global Health and Chair of Health System Design & Global Health at the Mount Sinai Health System, as well as Special Advisor for Strategy and Design at the Peterson Center for Healthcare. If you enjoy the show, please rate, review & subscribe to us wherever you listen, it helps others find the show, and share us on social media and with our friends and colleagues. We’d love to hear feedback and suggestions, so you can tweet at us @RoSpodcast or @HMSPrimaryCare or drop me a line at contact@rospod.org.