188 – Should “Are you registered to vote” be apart of patients’ social history?

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Dr. Nii Darko

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4.9 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! What’s good everyone!! We’re going to continue the voter registration conversation because it’s very important. Today you’ll be hearing from Dr. Alister Martin, an ER physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, who started the organization VotER. VotER believes that more voices build better systems and they are accomplishing this by making it easier for medical professionals and their patients to registe...

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0:25.6	What's good, everyone?
0:27.1	Dr. Neh here.
0:28.3	Thank you for tuning in.
0:29.6	And for the new listeners, people who have discovered me or discovered this show recently
0:34.2	over the past month was good.
0:35.9	Welcome.
0:37.1	Welcome, family. And I hope you all
0:39.9	become long time listeners, subscribers. We're doing some special things here. So welcome to the
0:46.5	family. Now, last week I interviewed Dr. Stella Ama with Vote Health 2020. They are making it
0:53.7	very easy for folks to register to vote,
0:56.3	particularly their patients. On this episode, you're going to hear a similar story. This is going
1:00.6	to be with Dr. Alastair Martin, who is out of Massachusetts General Hospital. He started an
1:05.5	organization from very humble beginnings called Vote ER. And obviously, it's about trying to get the message out to people
1:13.9	who visit the ER to register to vote. And we're going to talk about what it's like building an
1:18.9	organization like this from the ground up, what it's like from doing shifts and then working on
1:24.5	and getting this paper and packets out to where now, Vote ER is literally
1:29.0	in over 200 hospitals and has thousands of participants from medical students to attendings,
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