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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AttorneyCompany" data-source="post: 5218370" data-attributes="member: 226341">Doctors who insist on looking beyond the symptoms of disease and illness make people in high places nervous.Their medical knowledge gives them credibility. Their role as healers gives them influence. When they challenge government policy, corporate practices or societal values, people listen.Western society has a long tradition of doctors speaking out against poor sanitation, environmental degradation, war, oppression and poverty and unhealthy products.Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, for instance, played an instrumental role in restricting tobacco use. Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War helped push the disarmament movement into the political mainstream. Pediatrician Fraser Mustard has been a powerful champion for early childhood education. And Toronto's medical officer of health, David McKeowan, has repeatedly pointed that people who can't afford to eat properly get sick.Dr. Peter Ubel of the University of Michigan is part of this activist minority. He is taking on nothing less than capitalism itself.</blockquote>

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