Poverty, health, and the role of doctors
"Where feasible we should prescribe what is affordable and effective, especially to poor people and women, and not necessarily what the drug industry says is the best drug. In Angela's Ashes, his Pulitzer prizewinning account of his childhood among the poor of Ireland, Frank McCourt wrote: "Mom comes home in two days. She's weak and white and walks slowly. She says, `The doctor told me to keep warm, have plenty of rest and nourishing food, meat and eggs three times a week. God help us, those poor doctors don't have a notion of not having.'"