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PUBLIC HEALTH


Healthy priorities Public health group sets 2013 goals


Oncologist Debra Patt, MD, details the fiscal and physical toll of tobacco use at a meeting of the Texas Public Health Coalition’s University of Health forum.


“No one should have to choose between a paycheck and their health.”


BY CRYSTAL CONDE Debra Patt, MD, sees tobacco’s destructive impact daily in her Austin oncology practice.


“I can tell you that just less than an hour ago I was treating tobacco-related dis- ease on the back end. It’s much easier to treat it on the front end. In the words of Benjamin Franklin: ‘An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,’” Dr. Patt told attendees at a University of Health forum in November. Dr. Patt, chair of the TMA Committee on Cancer, spoke on the fiscal and physical costs of tobacco use.


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JIM LINCOLN


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