Poverty is Our Cancer: A Story of Medical Legal Partnership

Dr. Robert Needlman, a Pediatrician at MetroHealth Medical Center
and Professor of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, explains why he prefers to practice medicine with a Legal Aid lawyer by his side.
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and MetroHealth have created a medical legal partnership to treat the health-harming social conditions that stand in the way of good health. The result? Rights. Dignity. Justice.