Chapter 7 A Profound Sense of Responsibility: Thinking Large and Small in the Inner City

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1. Front Matter i
2. Upstream Medicine-Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Healthy Peoples and Healthy Discourse: Talking Indigenous Health 2
6. Being First Nations in Canada: The Rigged Game 19
7. From the Clinic to the Capital: Advocating for Systemic Change 35
8. Shared Decision-Making: An Alternative to Physician-Centred Care 47
9. What’s a Life Worth? 61
10. A System That Puts Health as Its Ultimate Goal: Stories and Ideas for Change 73
11. A Profound Sense of Responsibility: Thinking Large and Small in the Inner City 82
12. Every Clinical Story Has a Social Story 93
13. A New Vision for Our Planet and Our Health 105
14. Recharged: The Energy of a Politically Engaged Physician 115
15. Habitat: Considering the Bigger Picture of Our Patients’ Lives 122
16. Rejecting Indifference in the Face of Death 131
17. On Motivation, Mentors, and Medicare 139
18. Driven Upstream: The Quest for a Healthy Society 152
19. Embracing Complexity 169
20. Just Care: From Medicine to Politics in Pursuit of Equity 182
21. It’s Our Duty 193
22. Spaces to Live, Work, and Play 203
23. Bringing Upstream to the Mainstream 211
24. Expanding Perspective: A Geriatrician on Leadership, Time with Patients, and System Change 221
25. Emergency Doctor by Choice, Defender of the Public Healthcare System by Necessity 233
26. Afterword 238
27. Editors’ Biographies 240