title: Opening a channel: finding connection and healing beyond the clinic.
authors.affiliation: Samuel Slavin (samuel_slavin@hms.harvard.edu) is a student at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he served as a community health worker and coordinator of training and technical assistance at the Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) project, through Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston. All names have been changed to protect privacy.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Slavin
mesh_terms: D001900:Boston; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000628:therapy; D006205:Haiti / Q000208:ethnology; D006271:Health Facility Closure; D006291:Health Policy; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014481:United States; D014505:Urban Population
keywords: Chronic Care; Health Promotion/Disease Prevention; Health Reform; Personal Experience (-Narrative Matters-); Primary Care