The Intersection of Population Health and Public Health in a Pandemic
HealthIT Answers August 4, 2020
By Jenifer Leaf Jaeger, MD, MPH, Sr. Medical Director, HealthEC
“And this mess is so big and so deep and so tall, we cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!” Dr. Seuss
Theodor Geisel authored “The Cat in the Hat” in 1956 under the pen name Dr. Seuss. In the story, the Cat and his companions must clean up the shambles they have made of the children’s house. The Cat laments, “And this mess is so big and so deep and so tall, we cannot pick it up. There is no way at all.”
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