dr roger eigenberg dean of the university of southern california school of medicine this film describes new ways of providing health care for the poor whether they live in the country or the city by means of neighborhood health centers in the past and in many places today health care for the bore has been inadequate for a hard to obtain impersonal fragmented in that kind of a setting quality often suffered and today there are probably thirty million people or not receiving the kind of care we all deserve now with people in their neighborhoods working together with professionals in the planning and operation of these centers there are some new new directions and we should all be aware of so let's take a closer look at some of the problems and what neighborhood health centers are doing about the if you're poor and you live in places like the thickness can be a lifelong blank kind of vicious circle described by the physician who said the sick poor and the poor get sick no underlying all of this is the inescapable fact that there are hardly enough doctors to go around as medicine is now practiced in this  lunch they may well talk about things like housing education and welfare community worker tom your avails puts it this way through the experience of attacking a specific problem and working with one another they begun to see the relationship of such things as health problems to the lack of housing lack of education a lack of response by the institution in the society that so dramatically affect their lives and not only do they have at least for the first time a positive image of themselves but they're beginning to see ways that they can move possibly to change some of the other areas of their life more so with the  personal hospital emergency room this was going to be accessible and if they had anything to say about it it was going to be given the best looking building in town the center didn't have to be magnificent or even a labyrinth to begin with san francisco's first orders were in whole foods grown up around this attractive courtyard but they did have to be convenient and comfortable and easier access with pleasant waiting rooms in which neighborhood people would feel welcome and as all people are so far outside the mainstream the medical care that they don't want what other people  they want quiet examining rule they want comfortable conference areas where a warm and lasting relationship can be established between  health center is to offer patients family care medical services through an approach with tremendous implications for the whole medical field it's called pain medicine and it's offered by  highly organized group with members respond to patient me both medical and social the typical help team is made up of physicians usually an internist and pediatrician frequently including an obstetrician to the  and they got it right and while his father is getting attention just down the hall young spankie is getting his pediatric work up thanks as a member of the team the pediatrician has the unique opportunity to use more i have learned rely upon the other members of the team to do their part of the job and so i've had more time to concentrate on what i can do best to help the entire family and the me in their total medical care then let me know and i'll get social worker to talk to you and maybe give you some help because he's got a pretty rough age right now without a diet and the diet may be a little bit too much for him  such thing as funny as i can see from this