SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Catherine Porter, Star Star, Toronto Star
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This copy is for your personal non-commercial use only. Toronto star content for distribution to colleagues, clients or customers, or inquire about permissions/licensing, please go to: www. torontostarreprints. com. St. michael"s hospital health team prescription for poverty. Sat. , may 23, 2015 6 min. read. Ten years ago, dr. gary bloch examined dozens of the city"s poor on the lawn before queen"s park, and prescribed them money. Amid the political theatre, he was filling out vague provincial special diet forms, which once in the hands of the patients" caseworkers would bump their miserly monthly welfare payments by as much as . That lit a light bulb that we could directly intervene in poverty, says bloch. The provincial government tightened the wording on the forms a year later, requiring doctors to diagnose patients with specific diseases to qualify for the special diet money. Bloch and his colleagues with the newly formed health providers against poverty wound down their massive hunger clinics.
