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Teresa Gardner Tyson hosts a major medical outreach event called Remote Area Medical (RAM), which provides support to the uninsured of southwestern Virginia. Reporters who come to RAM are often surprised by the scale of the event, comparing it to disaster relief in Third World countries. Tyson remains enthusiastic despite setbacks and slow progress, and Macy sees her as an inspirational model for what people can achieve for healthcare on the local level while the federal government remains so slow to respond.
Teresa Gardner Tyson Quotes in Dopesick
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Chapter 13
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The birthplace of the modern opioid epidemic—central Appalachia—deserves the final word in this story. It is, after all, the place where I witnessed the holiest jumble of unmet needs, where I shadowed yet more angels, in the form of worn-out EMTs and preachers, probation officers and nurse-practitioners. Whether they were attending fiery public hearings to advocate for more public spending, serving suppers to the addicted in church basements, or driving creaky RVs-turned-mobile-clinics around hairpin curves, they were acting in accordance with the scripture that nurse-practitioner Teresa Gardner Tyson had embroidered on the back of her white coat:
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
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Teresa Gardner Tyson Quotes in Dopesick
The Dopesick quotes below are all either spoken by Teresa Gardner Tyson or refer to Teresa Gardner Tyson . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13
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The birthplace of the modern opioid epidemic—central Appalachia—deserves the final word in this story. It is, after all, the place where I witnessed the holiest jumble of unmet needs, where I shadowed yet more angels, in the form of worn-out EMTs and preachers, probation officers and nurse-practitioners. Whether they were attending fiery public hearings to advocate for more public spending, serving suppers to the addicted in church basements, or driving creaky RVs-turned-mobile-clinics around hairpin curves, they were acting in accordance with the scripture that nurse-practitioner Teresa Gardner Tyson had embroidered on the back of her white coat:
Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. (Matthew 25:40)
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