The racial, ethnic, and religious composition of our home is in a kinetic state. The questions we must ask now pertain to possibilities. Are factional agendas going to create discord or can we attain the realization that's critical in burgeoning harmony. America can strive and acquire a never before known level of equality and unity among its inhabitants, or a new nadir in our rich history. Instilling universal humanistic values and insight into our people today so that they may simultaneously harbor with security their roots and embrace without apprehension the new national neighborhood emerging about us must be a capitol directive for those wielding the resources.
Doctors are such individuals.
Doctors are imperative to the well being of any society. The health care system under the proper governmental aegis requires the physician's knowledge and wisdom to set the agendas that mold the manner and quality of care administered in the years ahead. To the patient, the physician is a panjandrum. A healer and a source of comfort when disease and pain weaken his or her constituents, the physician is coherent of the social, political, and economic forces that alter society's growth and development. In addition he or she gains an invaluable perspective that fosters a unique awareness from the patients whose state of being is a reflection of a society's.