How Doctors Can Help
Domestic Violence and Human Rights
Did you know
- In just two minutes, you can change her life in a profound way?
- If you don’t listen, she may never speak up again?
- You may be the only lifeline she has?
Dr. Jane Schaller came back a different person from war-torn South Africa in 1985. Her experience led to Physicians for Human Rights, a Boston-based group that believes health professionals have a great moral and ethical influence on human rights issues. Schaller, who has documented the effects of war on children, as quoted in the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association (Vol. 52, 1997), says:
“It is true that one doctor cannot end a tyranny, make all children well or end all torture used against innocent human beings. But one physician can make some difference, and a group of physicians or other health professionals can make a great deal of difference…”
In this country, there is another war going in, one in which many, many women and children are victims.