Rebecca Onie: What if our healthcare system kept us healthy?

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Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast
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譯者: Gina Wang 審譯者: Anny Chung
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So my freshman year of college
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我大一的時候
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I signed up for an internship in the housing unit
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申請成為大波士頓法律援助處的實習生
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at Greater Boston Legal Services.
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在住宅部門
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Showed up the first day
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第一天上工時
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ready to make coffee and photocopies,
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我準備好要幫大家煮咖啡、影印
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but was paired with this righteous, deeply inspired attorney
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卻被分配與一位充滿正義感與啟發性的律師共事
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named Jeff Purcell,
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他是Jeff Purcell
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who thrust me onto the front lines
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他在我實習的第一天
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from the very first day.
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便將我丟到工作前線
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And over the course of nine months
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而在之後的九個月中
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I had the chance
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我有機會
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to have dozens of conversations
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跟許多波士頓低收入的家庭
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with low-income families in Boston
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有許多會談
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who would come in presenting with housing issues,
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他們來我們這裡,通常是因為許多關於居住的問題
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but always had an underlying health issue.
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但潛藏其中,總有與健康相關的問題
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So I had a client who came in,
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我有一個客戶
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about to be evicted because he hasn't paid his rent.
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他因長期沒付房租,即將被逐出房屋
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But he hasn't paid his rent, of course,
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但他一直沒付房租
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because he's paying for his HIV medication
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是因為他必須支付愛滋病的醫藥費
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and just can't afford both.
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所以無法負荷兩者加起來的支出
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We had moms who would come in,
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也有許多母親來我們這裡
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daughter has asthma,
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女兒有氣喘病
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wakes up covered in cockroaches every morning.
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卻每天早晨在蟑螂堆中起床
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And one of our litigation strategies
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我們訴訟的策略之一
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was actually to send me into the home of these clients
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是派我去這些客戶的家裡
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with these large glass bottles.
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用大玻璃瓶
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And I would collect the cockroaches,
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蒐集這些蟑螂
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hot glue-gun them to this poster board
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用熱熔膠把蟑螂黏在海報板上
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that we'd bring to court for our cases.
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再帶到法庭打官司
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And we always won
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而我們總能贏得這些案件
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because the judges were just so grossed out.
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因為法官看了這些都覺得很噁心
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Far more effective, I have to say,
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這方法,我必須承認
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than anything I later learned in law school.
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比我日後在法學院所學的都還要有效
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But over the course of these nine months,
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但是在這九個月中
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I grew frustrated with feeling
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我越來越感到挫敗
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like we were intervening too far downstream
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因為在客戶的生活中
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in the lives of our clients --
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我們出手相助的時機總是太晚
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that by the time they came to us,
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當他們來尋求幫助時
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they were already in crisis.
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他們的生活早已陷入危機
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And at the end of my freshman year of college,
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當我大一那年即將結束時
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I read an article about the work
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我讀到一篇文章
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that Dr. Barry Zuckerman was doing
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是有關Barry Zuckerman博士的工作
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as Chair of Pediatrics
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他是小兒科主任
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at Boston Medical Center.
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在波士頓醫療中心工作
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And his first hire was a legal services attorney
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而他的第一份工作是當律師
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to represent the patients.
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為病患辯護
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So I called Barry,
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我打電話給Barry
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and with his blessing, in October 1995
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並在他的幫助之下,於1995年10月
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walked into the waiting room
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走進波士頓醫療中心
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of the pediatrics clinic at Boston Medical Center.
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小兒科的候診室
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I'll never forget,
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我永遠不會忘記
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the TVs played this endless reel of cartoons.
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他們的電視上不斷播放卡通
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And the exhaustion of mothers
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而那些筋疲力竭的母親們
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who had taken two, three, sometimes four buses
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有些已經轉了2、3次,甚至是4次的公車
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to bring their child to the doctor
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才能帶她的小孩來看醫生
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was just palpable.
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她們的疲憊真實的如可觸見
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The doctors, it seemed,
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那些醫生
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never really had enough time for all the patients,
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看似永遠沒有足夠時間來看所有的病患
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try as they might.
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儘管他們很努力
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And over the course of six months,
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而接下來的六個月
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I would corner them in the hallway
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我常在走廊上攔下這些醫生
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and ask them a sort of naive but fundamental question:
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問他們一個看似天真但卻很基本的問題:
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"If you had unlimited resources,
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「如果你有無限的資源
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what's the one thing you would give your patients?"
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你會給你的病患什麼?」
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And I heard the same story again and again,
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同樣的回答一次又一次的出現
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a story we've heard hundreds of times since then.
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我們大概聽了一百遍這樣的故事
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They said, "Every day we have patients that come into the clinic --
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他們說:"我們每天有許多病患來求診
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child has an ear infection,
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像耳朵感染的小孩
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I prescribe antibiotics.
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我會開抗生素
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But the real issue is there's no food at home.
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但是最大的問題是他們家中沒有食物
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The real issue
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真正的問題
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is that child is living with 12 other people
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是這小孩與其他12個人一起
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in a two-bedroom apartment.
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住在一間只有兩個臥房的公寓
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And I don't even ask about those issues
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而我對於這樣的事卻不願多問
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because there's nothing I can do.
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因為我也束手無策
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I have 13 minutes with each patient.
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我與每位病患有13分鐘的診療時間
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Patients are piling up in the clinic waiting room.
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候診室塞滿病人
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I have no idea where the nearest food pantry is.
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我不曉得最近的救濟中心在哪
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And I don't even have any help."
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也沒有人能幫我。"
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In that clinic, even today,
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即便今日,在那間醫療中心
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there are two social workers
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只有2位社工
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for 24,000 pediatric patients,
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卻要處理2萬4千位小兒科病人
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which is better than a lot of the clinics out there.
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但這狀況已經比其他的醫療中心好了
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So Health Leads was born of these conversations --
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「導向健康組織(Heath Leads)」從這些會談中誕生
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a simple model
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運用簡單的模式
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where doctors and nurses
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讓醫生和護士
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can prescribe nutritious food,
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能開營養的食物
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heat in the winter
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冬天的暖氣
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and other basic resources for their patients
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和其他基本的生活資源給病患
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the same way they prescribe medication.
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就像他們開其他藥方一樣
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Patients then take their prescriptions
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病患拿著這些處方籤
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to our desk in the clinic waiting room
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來我們位於候診室的櫃台
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where we have a core of well-trained college student advocates
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在這我們有一群訓練優良的大學生
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who work side by side with these families
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可以從旁協助這些家庭
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to connect them out
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幫他們向外聯繫
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to the existing landscape of community resources.
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取得社區現有的資源
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So we began with a card table in the clinic waiting room --
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一開始我們在診療室設立了一個簡單的櫃台
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totally lemonade stand style.
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就像賣檸檬汁的攤販那樣
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But today we have a thousand college student advocates
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但如今我們已有1千名支持這項行動的大學生
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who are working to connect nearly 9,000 patients and their families
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他們幫忙9千個病患和其家庭
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with the resources that they need to be healthy.
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幫忙取得他們維持健康所需的資源
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So 18 months ago
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18個月前
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I got this email that changed my life.
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我收到一封改變我人生的電郵
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And the email was from Dr. Jack Geiger,
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是Jack Geiger博士寄給我的
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who had written to congratulate me on Health Leads
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他寫來恭賀我和導向健康組織
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and to share, as he said,
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並且分享,如同他說的
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a bit of historical context.
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一些歷史脈絡
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In 1965 Dr. Geiger founded
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1965年,Geiger博士創立
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one of the first two community health centers in this country,
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那時全國唯二社區健康中心的其中一個
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in a brutally poor area in the Mississippi Delta.
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位於密西西比三角洲,是極為貧窮的地區
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And so many of his patients came in
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博士有許多前來求診的病患
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presenting with malnutrition
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呈現營養不良的問題
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that be began prescribing food for them.
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於是他開始開食物給病患當藥方
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And they would take these prescriptions to the local supermarket,
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病人將這些處方籤拿去當地超市
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which would fill them
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取得他們所需的食物
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and then charge the pharmacy budget of the clinic.
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超市則向診所支取這些費用
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And when the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. --
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當華府的職業訓練部
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which was funding Geiger's clinic --
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--他們當時資助Geiger的診所--
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found out about this,
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發現這件事後
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they were furious.
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他們十分不高興
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And they sent this bureaucrat down
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派官員告訴Geiger
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to tell Geiger that he was expected to use their dollars
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他們期待將這些資助的費用
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for medical care --
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花在醫療保健上
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to which Geiger famously and logically responded,
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Geiger的回應出名且有邏輯:
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"The last time I checked my textbooks,
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"上回我查課本的時候
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the specific therapy for malnutrition was food."
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針對改善營養不良,最好的解藥就是食物。"
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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So when I got this email from Dr. Geiger,
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因此當我收到Geiger博士的這封電郵
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I knew I was supposed to be proud
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我知道我身為這段歷史的一份子
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to be part of this history.
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應該感到驕傲
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But the truth is
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但事實上
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I was devastated.
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我卻感到挫敗
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Here we are,
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我們現在
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45 years after Geiger has prescribed food for his patients,
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離Geiger開食物給他的病人當藥方已經45年
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and I have doctors telling me,
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卻仍有醫生告訴我
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"On those issues, we practice a 'don't ask, don't tell' policy."
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"面對這些問題 我們奉行「不問、不說」的原則"
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Forty-five years after Geiger,
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在Geiger開始這項行動的45年後
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Health Leads has to reinvent
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導向健康組織必須重新創造
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the prescription for basic resources.
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給予病人基本生活資源的的藥方
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So I have spent hours upon hours
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我花了好多時間
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trying to make sense of this weird Groundhog Day.
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試圖了解這個怪異的迴圈
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How is it that if for decades
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為什麼這幾十年來
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we had a pretty straightforward tool for keeping patients,
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我們一直有非常直接的方法讓病患健康
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and especially low-income patients, healthy,
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特別是低收入戶的患者
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that we didn't use it?
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我們卻從不使用?
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If we know what it takes to have a healthcare system
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如果我們知道要如何成立「健保」系統
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rather than a sick-care system,
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而不是「病保」系統
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why don't we just do it?
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為什麼我們不做呢?
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These questions, in my mind,
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在我心中,這些問題
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are not hard because the answers are complicated,
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並不因為答案很複雜而困難
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they are hard because they require that we be honest with ourselves.
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它們是如此困難, 是因為它需要我們誠實的面對自己
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My belief is that it's almost too painful
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我認為這是一件極為痛苦的事
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to articulate our aspirations for our healthcare system,
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以致我們無法表達對健保制度的期望
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or even admit that we have any at all.
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或甚至承認有任何期待
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Because if we did,
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因為如果我們這麼做
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they would be so removed
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它們將看似遙不可及
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from our current reality.
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不可能存在現實生活中
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But that doesn't change my belief
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但這並不能改變我的信念
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that all of us, deep inside,
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我認為每個人在心深處
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here in this room and across this country,
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在這間大廳和整個國家
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share a similar set of desires.
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都有相同的渴望
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That if we are honest with ourselves
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如果我們能誠實的面對自己
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and listen quietly,
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並安靜的傾聽
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that we all harbor
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我們便能懷抱
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one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare:
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對健保制度的熱切期望:
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that it keep us healthy.
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它幫我們保持健康
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This aspiration that our healthcare keep us healthy
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認為健保制度能讓人們健康的期待
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is an enormously powerful one.
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是非常強大有影響力的
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And the way I think about this
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我是這麼認為:
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is that healthcare is like any other system.
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健保制度跟其它制度一樣
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It's just a set of choices that people make.
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它只是一系列人們的選擇
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What if we decided
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如果我們決定
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to make a different set of choices?
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做出不同的選擇,將會如何?
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What if we decided to take all the parts of healthcare
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如果我們決定不讓健保制度
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that have drifted away from us
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拿走對我們有助益的部分
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and stand firm and say, "No.
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並且堅決的說:"不
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These things are ours.
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這些都是屬於我們的
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They will be used for our purposes.
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它們會幫助我們達成目標
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They will be used to realize
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它們會被使用並實現
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our aspiration"?
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我們的期望"
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What if everything we needed
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所有能讓我們實現
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to realize our aspiration for healthcare
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對健保制度期望的要件
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was right there in front of us
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會不會就在我們面前
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just waiting to be claimed?
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等待被使用?
07:31
So that's where Health Leads began.
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這就是導向健康組織的開端
07:33
We started with the prescription pad --
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我們從處方籤著手
07:35
a very ordinary piece of paper --
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一張非常平凡的紙
07:37
and we asked, not what do patients need to get healthy --
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我們不問病患要怎麼做才能健康
07:41
antibiotics, an inhaler, medication --
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不是抗生素、吸入劑、藥物治療
07:44
but what do patients need to be healthy,
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而是問病患需要什麼才能保持健康
07:47
to not get sick in the first place?
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讓他們一開始就不會生病
07:50
And we chose to use the prescription
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而我們選擇使用的藥方
07:52
for that purpose.
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專為這個目的
07:53
So just a few miles from here
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離這裡幾哩遠的地方
07:54
at Children's National Medical Center,
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在國家兒童醫療中心
07:56
when patients come into the doctor's office,
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當病人來到醫生辦公室
07:59
they're asked a few questions.
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他們會被問幾個問題
08:00
They're asked, "Are you running out of food at the end of the month?
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"你的食物夠不夠每月所需?
08:03
Do you have safe housing?"
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你有安全的住處嗎?"
08:04
And when the doctor begins the visit,
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因此當醫生診療時
08:07
she knows height, weight, is there food at home,
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他知道病人的身高、體重、家裡存糧的狀況
08:09
is the family living in a shelter.
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他的家庭是否住在安全的地方
08:11
And that not only leads to a better set of clinical choices,
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這些問題不只讓診療結果更好
08:14
but the doctor can also prescribe those resources for the patient,
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醫生也能開給病患他們所需的資源
08:18
using Health Leads like any other sub-specialty referral.
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藉由導向健康或其他組織的幫助
08:22
The problem is,
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問題是
08:24
once you get a taste of what it's like
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當你嚐到
08:26
to realize your aspiration for healthcare,
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實現對健保制度的期望的滋味
08:28
you want more.
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你會想要更多
08:30
So we thought,
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因此我們想:
08:31
if we can get individual doctors
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如果我們可以讓每位醫生
08:32
to prescribe these basic resources for their patients,
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開基本的生活資源給患者
08:35
could we get an entire healthcare system
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我們是否能讓整個健保制度
08:38
to shift its presumption?
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改變它先入為主的態度?
08:41
And we gave it a shot.
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所以我們決定一試
08:42
So now at Harlem Hospital Center
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現在,哈林醫學中心
08:43
when patients come in with an elevated body mass index,
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當前來的病患測出有過高身體質量指數(BMI)時
08:47
the electronic medical record
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電子醫療記錄
08:49
automatically generates a prescription for Health Leads.
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自動產生處方給導向健康組織
08:53
And our volunteers can then work with them
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而我們的志工即可協助
08:54
to connect patients to healthy food and excercise programs
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讓病患取得他們的社區中
08:58
in their communities.
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健康飲食與運動計畫
08:59
We've created a presumption
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我們創造出這個假設:
09:00
that if you're a patient at that hospital
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如果你去醫院
09:02
with an elevated BMI,
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身體質量指數很高
09:03
the four walls of the doctor's office
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在醫院裡
09:06
probably aren't going to give you everything
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你可能無法得到你需要的
09:07
you need to be healthy.
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你需要健康
09:09
You need more.
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你需要更多
09:10
So on the one hand,
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所以一方面
09:11
this is just a basic recoding
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這只是基本重新設計
09:12
of the electronic medical record.
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電子醫療的記錄程式
09:14
And on the other hand,
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另一方面
09:16
it's a radical transformation
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這是大規模的改變
09:17
of the electronic medical record
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對電子醫療記錄而言
09:20
from a static repository of diagnostic information
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從靜態儲存診斷記錄
09:23
to a health promotion tool.
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變成推廣健康的工具
09:26
In the private sector,
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在私營部門
09:27
when you squeeze that kind of additional value
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當你從固定成本的投資中
09:30
out of a fixed-cost investment,
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找出這樣的附加價值
09:32
it's called a billion-dollar company.
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這被稱做高盈利公司
09:34
But in my world,
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但在我的世界裡
09:36
it's called reduced obesity and diabetes.
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這被稱做減少肥胖和糖尿病
09:39
It's called healthcare --
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這就是健保
09:41
a system where doctors can prescribe solutions
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讓醫生能開好處方的系統
09:44
to improve health,
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讓病人改善健康
09:46
not just manage disease.
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不只是控制病情
09:48
Same thing in the clinic waiting room.
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在醫院的候診室也是如此
09:49
So every day in this country
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在這個國家裡,每一天
09:51
three million patients
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3百萬名病人
09:52
pass through about 150,000 clinic waiting rooms in this country.
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會先待在15萬的候診室
09:57
And what do they do when they're there?
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他們在那裡要做什麼呢?
09:59
They sit, they watch the goldfish in the fish tank,
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他們坐著,看水族箱裡的金魚
10:02
they read extremely old copies
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他們讀好久以前的
10:05
of Good Housekeeping magazine.
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居家生活雜誌
10:07
But mostly we all just sit there forever, waiting.
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但我們大多就在那永無止盡的等待
10:10
How did we get here
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我們怎麼會這樣
10:12
where we devote hundreds of acres and thousands of hours
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致力花了很多空間與時間
10:15
to waiting?
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只為了等待?
10:17
What if we had a waiting room
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如果我們可以有一個候診室
10:18
where you don't just sit when you're sick,
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不只是生病時去那坐著
10:20
but where you go to get healthy.
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而是去那裡恢復健康
10:22
If airports can become shopping malls
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如果機場可以變成購物中心
10:25
and McDonald's can become playgrounds,
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麥當勞變成遊樂場
10:27
surely we can reinvent the clinic waiting room.
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我們也可以重新設計候診室
10:31
And that's what Health Leads has tried to do,
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而這就是導向健康組織試圖做的事
10:33
to reclaim that real estate and that time
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重新審視空間與時間
10:35
and to use it as a gateway
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將之利用成為一種
10:37
to connect patients
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幫助病人的途徑
10:38
to the resources they need to be healthy.
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讓他們得到能恢復健康的物資
10:40
So it's a brutal winter in the Northeast,
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今年美國東北的冬天很冷
10:42
your kid has asthma, your heat just got turned off,
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你的孩子有氣喘,你沒有暖氣
10:44
and of course you're in the waiting room of the ER,
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你當然前往急診室的候診室
10:47
because the cold air triggered your child's asthma.
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因為冷空氣導致你小孩氣喘
10:49
But what if instead of waiting for hours anxiously,
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但假使與其在那花幾個小時焦急的等待
10:52
the waiting room became the place
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候診室成為
10:54
where Health Leads turned your heat back on?
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導向健康組織幫你讓暖氣重新運作的地方?
10:57
And of course all of this requires
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當然這些都需要
10:58
a broader workforce.
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更多的人力
11:00
But if we're creative, we already have that too.
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但如果我們夠有創意,我們早已擁有這些
11:03
We know that our doctors and nurses
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我們知道我們的醫生和護士
11:06
and even social workers
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甚至社工
11:07
aren't enough,
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都仍不夠
11:09
that the ticking minutes of health care
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時間緊迫的健保制度
11:10
are too constraining.
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設限太多
11:12
Health just takes more time.
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健康需要我們花更多的時間
11:14
It requires a non-clinical army
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需要非診所的團體
11:17
of community health workers and case managers
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社區健康工作者和個案負責人
11:19
and many others.
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還有許多其他的人力
11:21
What if a small part of that next healthcare workforce
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那如果下代健保一部分人力來自
11:24
were the 11 million college students in this country?
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我國1億1的大學生呢?
11:28
Unencumbered by clinical responsibilities,
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不受醫療系統的限制
11:31
unwilling to take no for an answer
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不願意向政府機構
11:33
from those bureaucracies
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那些無法幫助病人的政策
11:35
that tend to crush patients,
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低頭與妥協
11:37
and with an unparalleled ability
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大學生擁有前所未有的能力
11:39
for information retrieval
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能取得資料
11:40
honed through years of using Google.
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因著這幾年來使用google的經驗
11:43
Now lest you think it improbable
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現在,如果你覺得這不可能
11:46
that a college volunteer
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一個大學志工
11:47
can make this kind of commitment,
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可以委身這樣的託付
11:49
I have two words for you:
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我有4個字給你:
11:51
March Madness.
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三月瘋狂(美國大學籃球聯賽賽季)
11:53
The average NCAA Division I men's basketball player
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美國體育協會的一級男子籃球競賽中
11:57
dedicates 39 hours a week to his sport.
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籃球員每週花39小時做訓練
12:00
Now we may think that's good or bad,
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不論你覺得是好是壞
12:02
but in either case it's real.
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這是確實發生的事情
12:05
And Health Leads is based on the presumption
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導向健康組織認為
12:07
that for too long
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已經太久
12:09
we have asked too little of our college students
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我們對大學生的要求太少
12:11
when it comes to real impact in vulnerable communities.
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我們需要大學生對脆弱的社群發揮影響力
12:15
College sports teams say,
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大學球隊會說:
12:16
"We're going to take dozens of hours
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"我們要花很多小時
12:18
at some field across campus at some ungodly hour of the morning
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在離校園很遠的地方,在討厭的清晨
12:22
and we're going to measure your performance, and your team's performance,
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我們要考核你和你隊伍的表現
12:25
and if you don't measure up or you don't show up,
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如果你表現不夠好或是你沒出現
12:27
we're going to cut you off the team.
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我們會把你踢出球隊
12:29
But we'll make huge investments
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但是我們會高額投資
12:30
in your training and development,
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在你的訓練和發展上
12:32
and we'll give you an extraordinary community of peers."
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我們也會給你優良的隊員"
12:35
And people line up out the door
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而人們總是在門外大排長龍
12:37
just for the chance to be part of it.
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只想要成為球隊的一份子
12:40
So our feeling is,
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因此我們認為
12:41
if it's good enough for the rugby team,
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如果大學生願意參加橄欖球隊
12:42
it's good enough for health and poverty.
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他們也會願意幫助健康或窮困
12:44
Health Leads too recruits competitively,
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導向健康的招募像球隊一樣充滿競爭性
12:48
trains intensively,
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高強度訓練
12:49
coaches professionally,
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並有專業指導
12:51
demands significant time,
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需要花一段時間
12:53
builds a cohesive team
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來建立凝聚力高的團隊
12:55
and measures results --
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並驗收成效
12:56
a kind of Teach for America for healthcare.
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像是「為美國而教」的健保版 (大學畢業生到偏遠、窮困地區教書)
12:59
Now in the top 10 cities in the U.S.
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現在於美國
13:01
with the largest number of Medicaid patients,
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十個最多的病人需要醫療補助的城市中
13:03
each of those has at least 20,000 college students.
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各個至少有2萬名大學生
13:06
New York alone has half a million college students.
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僅紐約就有50萬
13:10
And this isn't just a sort of short-term workforce
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這不是短期的勞動力
13:13
to connect patients to basic resources,
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為了幫病人取得基本資源
13:15
it's a next generation healthcare leadership pipeline
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這是培養下一代健保領導者的管道
13:18
who've spent two, three, four years
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他們花了2、3、4年
13:21
in the clinic waiting room
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在候診室裡
13:22
talking to patients about their most basic health needs.
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與病人協談有關他們最基本的保健需求
13:26
And they leave with the conviction,
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而他們離開時會有信念
13:28
the ability and the efficacy
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能力和功效
13:30
to realize our most basic aspirations for health care.
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來完成我們對健保最基本的期望
13:34
And the thing is, there's thousands of these folks already out there.
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事實上,我們已經有成千上萬委身此事的大學生
13:37
So Mia Lozada is Chief Resident of Internal Medicine
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Mia Lozada是內科住院總醫師
13:41
at UCSF Medical Center,
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在加州大學舊金山分校的醫學中心
13:42
but for three years as an undergraduate
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但她還是大學生時,她花了三年
13:44
she was a Health Leads volunteer
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擔任導向健康組織的志工
13:46
in the clinic waiting room at Boston Medical Center.
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在波士頓醫學中心的候診室
13:49
Mia says, "When my classmates write a prescription,
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Mia說:"當我的醫學院同學開了處方
13:53
they think their work is done.
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他們認為他們的工作已結束
13:55
When I write a prescription,
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當我開處方時
13:56
I think, can the family read the prescription?
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我會想,這個家庭讀得懂這個處方嗎?
13:59
Do they have transportation to the pharmacy?
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他們有辦法通車到藥房嗎?
14:01
Do they have food to take with the prescription?
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他們有可以搭配療程的食物嗎?
14:03
Do they have insurance to fill the prescription?
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他們有保險可以支付這張藥單嗎?
14:06
Those are the questions I learned at Health Leads,
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這些問題都是我在導向健康工作時學到的
14:08
not in medical school."
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不是在醫學院"
14:10
Now none of these solutions --
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目前這些解決方式:
14:12
the prescription pad, the electronic medical record,
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處方籤、電子醫療記錄
14:15
the waiting room,
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候診室
14:16
the army of college students --
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或大學生志工
14:17
are perfect.
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都仍不完善
14:18
But they are ours for the taking --
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但只要我們願意,這些都能改善
14:21
simple examples
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舉個簡單的例子
14:22
of the vast under-utilized healthcare resources
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這些大量少被使用的健保資源
14:26
that, if we reclaimed and redeployed,
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如果我們重新使用與配置
14:29
could realize our most basic aspiration
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即可實現我們對健保
14:32
of healthcare.
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最基本的渴望
14:34
So I had been at Legal Services for about nine months
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當我在法律機構工作9個月後
14:37
when this idea of Health Leads started percolating in my mind.
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成立導向健康組織的概念在我心中逐漸成型時
14:40
And I knew I had to tell Jeff Purcell, my attorney,
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我知道我必須告訴Jeff Purcell,我的上司
14:43
that I needed to leave.
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我必須離開
14:44
And I was so nervous,
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我當時非常緊張
14:45
because I thought he was going to be disappointed in me
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覺得他會對我感到失望
14:48
for abandoning our clients for some crazy idea.
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因為我為了瘋狂的想法拋棄我們的客戶
14:51
And I sat down with him and I said,
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我們倆坐下商量,我說
14:53
"Jeff, I have this idea
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"Jeff,我有個想法
14:55
that we could mobilize college students
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我們可以動員大學生
14:57
to address patients' most basic health needs."
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讓他們向社會宣導病患最基本的健康需求"
15:00
And I'll be honest,
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我誠實的告訴你
15:02
all I wanted was for him to not be angry at me.
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我當時只希望上司不要對我生氣
15:05
But he said this,
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但他卻這麼說
15:06
"Rebecca, when you have a vision,
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"Rebecca,當你有這樣的遠見
15:10
you have an obligation to realize that vision.
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你有義務去實行它
15:13
You must pursue that vision."
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你必須追求這個夢想"
15:17
And I have to say, I was like "Whoa.
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我得說,我當時覺得
15:20
That's a lot of pressure."
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"哇!這個壓力真大"
15:22
I just wanted a blessing,
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我本來只希望得到他的祝福
15:23
I didn't want some kind of mandate.
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我不想被命令
15:25
But the truth is
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但事實上
15:26
I've spent every waking minute nearly since then
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自那時起,我花了所有的心力
15:29
chasing that vision.
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追求我的目標
15:31
I believe that we all have a vision
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我相信我們對這國家的健保制度
15:34
for healthcare in this country.
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都有一個目標
15:36
I believe that at the end of the day
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我相信,最後
15:38
when we measure our healthcare,
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當我們衡量健保的重要性
15:40
it will not be by the diseases cured,
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不是用治癒疾病的數量
15:43
but by the diseases prevented.
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而是用避免疾病的數量
15:45
It will not be by the excellence of our technologies
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也不是用科技的發達
15:48
or the sophistication of our specialists,
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或是專家專精的程度
15:51
but by how rarely we needed them.
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而是以我們不用倚賴他們的程度來算
15:54
And most of all,
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最重要的是
15:55
I believe that when we measure healthcare,
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我相信當我們估算健保的重要性時
15:58
it will be, not by what the system was,
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將不會根據這個制度以往的樣子
16:00
but by what we chose it to be.
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而是我們決定它成為的樣子
16:03
Thank you.
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謝謝
16:04
(Applause)
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(掌聲)
16:14
Thank you.
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謝謝
16:16
(Applause)
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(掌聲)
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