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Boston hospitals should help more nurses to serve overseas

  November 24, 2011

The billions of health-care dollars entering the Third World through various spigots - the Global Fund, PEPFAR, the Gates Foundation, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and other largely US-funded charities - are tangible, irrefutable expressions of the good will of the people of the United States. The ambassadors who deliver the services are thousands of American doctors who bring care to the most impoverished corners of the world. Leading Boston-area hospitals should make the same opportunities available to nurses.

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