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DESCRIPTION:SPEAK OUT & MEDICC -  Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba present\nthe 
 exciting new feature-length documentary about Cuba's health care system\n   
       ¡Salud!\n \nFollowed by a panel discussion with:\n• Connie Field, 
 ¡Salud! director and Oscar-nominated filmmaker\n• Karen Bass, California 
 State Assemblymember and Majority Leader, MEDICC Board Member\n• 
 Graduates of the Latin American Medical School(ELAM) in Havana, Cuba\n• 
 Teresa Walsh of Speak Out, former medical patient in Havana\n\nTICKETS: 
 General Admission $10, Youth 17 and under $5\nAvailable on-line at Brown 
 Paper Tickets\nOr call Brown Paper Tickets’ 24/7 ticket hotline: 
 1-800-838-3006\n\nABOUT ¡SALUD!\nFor people curious about Cuba’s health 
 care system after seeing Michael Moore's SiCKO, the new documentary film 
 ¡SALUD! sheds light on how such a resource-poor country can provide its 
 people with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's best health 
 systems.'\n\nAnd for 40 years, Cuba's taken it to the road, their doctors 
 in demand by other struggling nations. ¡SALUD! reaches into The Gambia, 
 rural South Africa, Honduran coastal villages, Caracas hillsides, and the 
 Venezuelan Amazon, where a Cuban is often the first doctor a poor community 
 has ever seen. In some nations, Cubans staff entire health systems. In all, 
 they take on the toughest challenges, bringing with them the philosophy and 
 experience of a community-oriented, preventive, and universal health care 
 model.\n\nCuba's volunteer corps now post 28,000 health professionals in 68 
 countries. Cuban medical schools enroll 30,000 students from other 
 developing areas (including a group of students of color and low-income 
 students from the U.S.), an unprecedented undertaking for any 
 country.\n\n¡SALUD! questions what propels Cuban doctors to serve where 
 others won't, and grapples with the tensions their presence sometimes 
 provokes. The film probes the motivations of international students at 
 Havana's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) where a bold paradigm 
 shift is producing doctors committed to public service. Through these 
 stories and testimony from experts around the world, ¡SALUD! traces the 
 opinions and competing agendas that mark the battle for better global 
 health.\n\nWHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ¡SALUD!\n\n"¡Salud! should been 
 seen by everyone from our political leaders to students in high schools and 
 colleges who will shape the world of the future."\n— Robert S. Blacklow 
 MD, Visiting Professor Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, President 
 and Dean Emeritus, Northeastern Ohio University's College of 
 Medicine\n\n“¡Salud! is an excellent, accurate and deeply moving 
 portrayal of a healthcare system designed to keep people healthy rather 
 than the ‘sickcare’ system that currently exists in the United 
 States.”\n— Jocelyn Elders, MD, former U.S. Surgeon General\n\n"I 
 salute ¡Salud! for teaching us how much we can learn not just about - but 
 from - Cuba."\n— Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board, NAACP\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/16/18454288.php
SUMMARY:Screening of ¡Salud! (film on Cuba's health Care system) followed by Panel Discussion
LOCATION:Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. Oakland
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/10/16/18454288.php
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