It has been said that the influence and impact of good works are not generally known to the person who provided them. I read an interview with Dr. Salber in a magazine in 1983 or earlier. It was at the beginning of my medical practice. I'm now retired, but never forgot her advocacy for lay "health facilitators," and it was her voice in my ear that led me to help develop and support community health worker and lay health promoter programs in rural Oregon over the decades since then. As I prepare to give a keynote address on 6/27/2013 at a conference focusing on "Traditional Health Workers" (lay community health workers, doulas and peer wellness specialists), I returned to Dr. Salber's writings once again. I hope that in 'paying forward' the inspiration she gave to me, I can be part of a chain.
It has been said that the influence and impact of good works are not generally known to the person who provided them. I read an interview with Dr. Salber in a magazine in 1983 or earlier. It was at the beginning of my medical practice. I'm now retired, but never forgot her advocacy for lay "health facilitators," and it was her voice in my ear that led me to help develop and support community health worker and lay health promoter programs in rural Oregon over the decades since then. As I prepare to give a keynote address on 6/27/2013 at a conference focusing on "Traditional Health Workers" (lay community health workers, doulas and peer wellness specialists), I returned to Dr. Salber's writings once again. I hope that in 'paying forward' the inspiration she gave to me, I can be part of a chain.