The legal system has a dramatic and measurable effect on how well we live and how long we live--on our health. Lawyers help patients in crisis through #medleg, and they have the tools for health justice wins for communities. Join our conversation on why legal care is #healthcare.

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Someone once told me being a lawyer is like being a surgeon except there is another surgeon in the room trying to kill your patient while you are trying to save them. After tough moments with opposing counsel I think about that quote and laugh.

This. So much this.

Heard at #YaleMLP23: Good social needs screening would look like a legal services intake. #yes #socialcare #expertise #MLP

Loving hearing the history and impetus for legal services lifted up! Lawyers and public health professionals and other social care providers were redressing #SDoH long before #healthcare coined a term and asked to be paid to start screening. #MLP

At #StateofReform and excited to hear anthonyhaley: Civil Legal services via medical-legal partnerships like the one People's Community Clinic are critical to meeting the health needs of a community, including in the face of the end of #Medicaid continuous enrollment. #MLP

One in four college applicants avoids entire states for political reasons | Fox 59 thehill.com/homenews/state…

How did I missing #rowing humor on April 1? Especially that involves a 3x! A tri? Why don't we have those, Austin Rowing Club? 😂

Recording and slides from National Academy of Medicine webinar on the history and systems impact of oppression, racism, and widening racial health disparities in light of current social and political contexts: bit.ly/41yK7Vs #PromoteHealthEquity

Patrick is an excellent choice. Excited to see this endorsement!

A handy chart of changes in laws affecting health that are and are not linked to the end of the PHE.

This weekend, NPR published a months-long investigation into a simple question: Why are Republicans abandoning one of the best tools the government has to find voter fraud? We uncovered a complex far right pressure campaign, and an election denial blueprint for 2024...

Aziza Ahmed @AmyLFairchild @Ethnography911 @prof_goldberg R Carpiano @ProfLWiley Texas A&M School of Law Texas A&M Health @neva9257 Lawrence Gostin Sofia Gruskin Govind Persad (also @govindpersad.bsky.social) Matiangai Sirleaf @ProfAlang @gregggonsalves Andy Imparato Alberto Retana Brad Sears Oxiris Barbot Prof Rob Gatter Benjamin Mason Meier @alexandraphelan Panel 5 on equitable access to medicines & medical countermeasures will feature Ximena Benavides, Sam Halabi, @ruqaiijah, ChomiloMD & Jordan Paradise, moderated by Keegan D. Warren, JD, LLM

As a longtime leader of Texas Medical-Legal Partnership Coalition, I'm very excited about Texas's newest medical-legal partnership. Our early research suggests #mlp could be a critical tool for reducing recidivism & more. This project is a win for Texans -- incarcerated, med/law student, & in our communities.