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Raised in Berlin, Sao Paulo and NYC I now live in Los Angeles. I'm a rocker mom, wife, art collector, culture vulture and founder of this digital enterprise. I take pictures for a living.
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Health hero: Ram helps those without medical insurance

By Reggie Casagrande, May 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Comments (0)
Now more than ever the self employed, working poor, and underinsured are struggling with health insurance.    Artists, designers, small business owners (and Obama and HIllary) are all talking about what to do. How to fix the problem.

I recently heard about RAM, and its visionary founder, Stan Brock.     Ram is now helping americans by the hundreds in remote areas.  


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The Remote Area Medical® (RAM) Volunteer Corps is a non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world.
Founded in 1985, Remote Area Medical® is a publicly supported all-volunteer charitable organization. Volunteer doctors, nurses, pilots, veterinarians and support workers participate in expeditions (at their own expense) in some of the world's most exciting places. Medical supplies, medicines, facilities and vehicles are donated.

The vision for Remote Area Medical® developed in the Amazon rain forest where founder Stan Brock spent 15 years with the Wapishana Indians. He lived with the pain and suffering created by isolation from medical care. He witnessed the near devastation of whole tribes by what would have been simple or minor illnesses to more advanced cultures. When he left South America to co-star in the television series, "Wild Kingdom, " he vowed to find a way to deliver basic medical aid to people in the world's inaccessible regions.
The organization was founded in 1985 and years of research and planning yielded a vast, carefully developed network of men and women who have come together to make RAM a highly mobile, remarkably efficient relief force. Volunteers are doctors, nurses, technicians, and veterinarians who go on expeditions at their own expense and treat hundreds of patients a day under some of the worst conditions.  (taken from Ram website).

http://www.ramusa.org/about/history.htm
thank god the state of Tennessee gave this guy a medal.   He deserves it and donations too.

stanwithphil.jpg 
By Reggie Casagrande, May 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Comments (0)

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