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Rebecca Voelker

JAMA. 2008;300(6):639.

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The wail of an ambulance siren pierces the relative quiet of a downtown Chicago hotel dining room. Iraq's Minister of Health, Salih Al Hasnawi, MD, stops in mid-sentence until the siren passes. "It's like Iraq," he says, injecting ironic humor into a somber conversation. During a trip to the United States last May, Al Hasnawi stopped in Chicago to speak with a group of experts who are investigating ways to use communications technologies and telemedicine to improve access to health care in Iraq.

Salih Al Hasnawi, MD, Iraq's Minister of Health, is working to rebuild and reform the country’s neglected health system. (Photo credit: Maria Corley/Center for International Rehabilitation)

Al Hasnawi, a psychiatrist who became health minister in October 2007, spoke with JAMA about how health professionals and civilians are coping with war and the prospects for rebuilding and reforming the country's health system. An edited version of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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