Over the weekend...we fight for a trauma center in the south side of Chicago. As future physicians, we are patient advocates. If we don't stand up with our patients, who will?
As the country knows, south side Chicago is a dangerous place. It's home to one of the foremost educational institutions - University of Chicago. And yet, UofC hospital system closed its Trauma center because they thought they were losing too much money back in 1988.
If you're severely injured in the south side you'll have to travel 10+ miles by ambulance to get to a trauma center. How is that fair? How is that helping to serve the people? It's basically a trauma desert.
Are they really addressing the needs of the community? As great as it is they're opening yet another library (an Obama library), it doesn't seem like they're listening to what the community actually wants. If they really care for the area and black people, the university would raise money for a trauma center with as much zeal as they did for the presidential library.
Solidarity forever.
