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Chicago Sun-Times March 8, 2016 Doctor, activist Quentin Young dies at age 92 By Mitch Dudek Dr. Quentin Young, a leader for decades in the field of public health policy and longtime advocate for a single-payer national health care system, died Monday at the age of 92. After Dr. Martin Luther King was struck in the head by a rock and fell to a knee, stunned, while marching through a white neighborhood on the South Side, it was Dr. Quentin Young who patched him up. When police batons battered protesters in Grant Park during the Democratic National Convention in 1968, Young dressed wounds. In Mississippi he provided care to Freedom Riders. The list goes on and on. Back in Chicago, Young — who practiced internal medicine — ran his medical practice in Hyde Park. But his reach as an advocate on health issues extended well beyond the South Side neighborhood. In 1981 he founded the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, which studied the effect of social determinants on health, including education, income and zip code, and how such factors have more influence on a person than the medical care they receive. When Cook County considered getting out of the medical care business, Young and his organization fought to preserve the county’s health care system as a provider of last resort for the people without insurance, said Michael Gelder, a co-founder of the research group. The group successfully lobbied for the creation of Stroger Hospital and an independent board to run the county’s hospital system. “Dr. Young was a radical, a rebel — a tiger for social justice in many forms,” Gelder said. Young, 92, died Monday at his daughter’s home in Berkley, California. Young was a friend of President Barack Obama and advised Obama on health policy issues during his time in the state legislature and after, Gelder said. He served as chairman of the Chicago Board of Health under Mayor Harald Washington. He also worked as an advisor in the administration of former Gov. Pat Quinn. In 2001, at age 78, Young walked 167 miles across Illinois from, the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan with Quinn — a patient of his — to promote health care initiatives. Young counted many politicians as patients, including Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky. He also treated Studs Terkel. http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/doctor-activist-quentin-young-dies-at-age-92/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
