7. Medicine as a “currency for peace” Use your tools to make the world a better place Healthier Population Better educated More productive Stable Civil Society Built on TRUST Less fighting, more HOPE “One-on-one becomes one-on-many”
20. Medicine as a “Currency for Peace” What started as American medical volunteers operating on a single patient in an abandoned school house … grew to a hospital that now sees over 40,000 patients each year, from hundreds of miles around, with 60 Sudanese workers. And civil society has returned. And schools have reopened. And markets have prospered … all built on TRUST. … And the fighting and bombing have stopped.
21. New Military Thinking: “Smart Power” "What is clear to me is that there is a need for a dramatic increase in spending on civilian instruments of national security -- diplomacy, strategic communications, foreign assistance, civic action, and economic reconstruction and development.” -Dr. Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defense
22. Fundamental Organizing Principle While the world often sees America’s tougher side … when people see America's more compassionate, humanitarian side, the barriers come down, and peace becomes a viable possibility. “People don’t go to war against someone who helped save the life of their child.”
71. Let’s all “commit” … Begin now! “ The moment one definitely commits oneself then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can -- Begin it! Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin now.” Wolfgang GoetheGerman poet, philosopher, scientist
72. Follow me at “Senator Bill Frist” on cebook and @bfriston Twitter
Editor's Notes
Albert Schweitzer: intersection of medicine and service. Dr. Lachlan Farrow, head of the Schweitzer Foundation, gave last year’s keynote address.
