What do you do if you’re a young physician with a growing sense of social justice, and the world looks like it’s in political upheaval around you? In 1970, about two-dozen young physicians asked themselves this very question.
They chose to do their internships and residencies at Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx and called themselves the Lincoln Collective. Over the next few years, they worked in one of the most dilapidated and difficult public hospitals in the United States. Some were motivated by an inclination to serve the most marginalized and medically underserved patients. Others saw themselves and the Collective as a medical cadre; part of a much larger process of radical political transformation. Most fell somewhere in between. Merlin Chowkwanyun’s talk discusses the origins of the Collective; its successes and frustrations; and the often tense relationship between its members and revolutionary Third World groups that had also taken an interest in health activism as well.
Free, but advance registration is required.
Tuesday, May 24th from 6:00 pm -7:30 pm
The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, New York, http://www.nyam.org/
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