Medicine Can't Cure Poverty

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 11, 2016

Prabhjot Singh, MD, PHD, director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and chairman of the department of health system design & global health at the Mount Sinai Health System and the author of Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America's Healthcare Promise (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), brings sociology to bear on the issue of treating chronic disease among low-income Americans.

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