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Prying Open Healthcare: Why We Revolt Discussion with author Victor Montori

January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm CST

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Thursday, January 14 @ 7 p.m.

Join the East Side Freedom Library live on Facebook for a discussion with Victor Montori on his book on the politics of the healthcare industry, Why We Revolt: A Patient Revolution for Careful and Kind Care.

If you would like to view the event live on Zoom, please register here to receive the link.

In a series of brief and personal essays, Why We Revolt describes what is wrong with industrial healthcare, how it has corrupted its mission, and how it has stopped caring. Montori rescues the language of patient care to propose a revolution of compassion and solidarity, of unhurried conversations, and of careful and kind care.
Our conversation will be live streamed to Facebook and will be moderated by book industry professional and historian David Unowsky. The panel will be joined by Sen. John Marty, Nurses Association director Rose Roach and SEIU Healthcare Executive Vice President Jigme Ugen.

John Marty has been a state senator since 1987. He is a strong advocate for government ethics, environmental protection, and universal health care. John is the author of the proposed Minnesota Health Plan, which would replace the health insurance system with health care for all, to keep people healthy and enable them to get the care they need when they need it. John is a graduate of St. Olaf College with a B.A. in Ethics. John and his wife Connie live in Roseville, MN.

Rose Roach is the Executive Director of the Minnesota Nurses Association. She has thirty plus years of experience in the labor movement in Minnesota and California. A Minnesota native, Ms. Roach spent eleven years, from 2003-2014, working for the California School Employees Association and was an active leader within the CA health care policy reform movement. Roach has been recognized as one of Minnesota’s 100 influential leaders in health care. She is on the board of Health Care for All-Minnesota.

Jigme Ugen was born in Kalimpong, India and graduated from Delhi University with diplomas in Political Science, English and Economics. He is the first Tibetan refugee to be elected as a labor union leader. He worked in several non-profit organizations across the world before immigrating to the US in 2001. In 2007, he was elected Executive Vice President of SEIU Healthcare Minnesota. Jigme is deeply engaged with the Tibetan community and Tibet’s independence movement.

Victor Montori works at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (U.S.) as a diabetes doctor. He graduated medical school in his hometown of Lima, Perú, and completed postgraduate training at Mayo Clinic in the U.S. and at McMaster University in Canada. Considered “a patient’s doctor,”, Montori received the Karis Award, a patient-nominated recognition for his compassionate care. A researcher in the science of patient-centered care, Montori and his colleagues have authored over 650 research articles. A full professor of medicine by age 39, Victor is today one of the most cited clinical researchers in the world. In 2016, Victor founded The Patient Revolution.

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Date:
January 14, 2021
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Organizer

East Side Freedom Library
Phone
651-207-4926
Email
info@eastsidefreedomlibrary.org

Venue

East Side Freedom Library
1105 Greenbrier Street
St. Paul, MN 55106 United States
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