How a group of British medical students fought for social prescribing
An excerpt from The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service, and Belonging.
With slicked-back hair, a fancy-buttoned vest, and a politician-like charisma, you wouldn’t guess Dr. Bogdan Chiva Giurca, a doctor for England’s National Health Service (NHS), grew up in a Romanian village, handwashing his clothes because he couldn’t afford laundry. “I got to taste the real social determinants of health without knowing they were called …
