[NPInfo] 60 Minutes. Did you see?

[David Mittman]

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Dave
On Mar 2, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Paula Sumner wrote:

> oops, I just posted on this, and did not see your postings. It was  
> a great story. Paula
>
> David Mittman <dmittman at comcast.net> wrote:  Tonight they had a  
> segment on that if viewed, had to have moved you.
> If you care about people and care for people it had to have even
> moved you more. I can only hope you saw the segment on the
> organization that has started to provide free volunteer healthcare to
> our citizens across the USA.
> They started out as an international organization providing care in
> South America, etc., but now 60% is given throughout the USA.
> Their name is Remote Area Medical (REM) http://www.ramusa.org/ .
> Anyone ever work with them? They did a segment where they provided
> free care in Knoxville, TN and after working their tails off, they
> still turned away 500 people. They did interview an NP who was
> working with the group that weekend. Very positive.
> I (we) would like to take the first of many steps to form a liasion
> between the ACC and REM. First I need to talk with the Board. I will
> try to collect information. If they check out and agree, we would put
> a link on our web site and ask all NPs and PAs to donate their time
> and money. As a 15 minute segment was devoted to them tonight, I can
> only suppose 60 Minutes checked them out significantly. So, I again
> ask if you know anything about them?
> So, if they have it on their web site, please watch the segment.
> Sometimes we can change the world one person at a time.
> Dave
> Dave Mittman, PA
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> We did not come over in the same ship, but we ARE in the same boat.
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