‘Attorneys of the poor’: Training physicians to tackle health inequalities
Michael EB FitzPatrick, Charles Badu-Boateng, Christopher Huntley and Caitlin Morgan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/fhj.2020-0242
Future Healthc J March 2021 Michael EB FitzPatrick
AUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Roles: clinical lecturer in gastroenterology
Charles Badu-Boateng
BFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley, UK
Roles: internal medicine trainee
Christopher Huntley
CUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
Roles: specialty trainee in respiratory medicine and interstitial and occupational lung disease clinical research fellow
Caitlin Morgan
DSomerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton, UK
Roles: specialty trainee in respiratory medicine

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- Published online March 17, 2021.
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- Michael EB FitzPatrick, clinical lecturer in gastroenterologyA⇑,
- Charles Badu-Boateng, internal medicine traineeB,
- Christopher Huntley, specialty trainee in respiratory medicine and interstitial and occupational lung disease clinical research fellowC and
- Caitlin Morgan, specialty trainee in respiratory medicineD
- AUniversity of Oxford, Oxford, UK
- BFrimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Frimley, UK
- CUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK
- DSomerset NHS Foundation Trust, Taunton, UK
- Address for correspondence: Dr Michael FitzPatrick, Translational Gastroenterology Unit, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital (Level 5), Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK. Email: michael.fitzpatrick{at}ndm.ox.ac.uk Twitter: @doctorfitz
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‘Attorneys of the poor’: Training physicians to tackle health inequalities
Michael EB FitzPatrick, Charles Badu-Boateng, Christopher Huntley, Caitlin Morgan
Future Healthc J Mar 2021, 8 (1) 12-18; DOI: 10.7861/fhj.2020-0242
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