When Doctors Work with Lawyers to Improve Patients’ Health

<p>Getting and staying healthy depends on more than just medical care. In some instances, a patient also needs legal services. What if doctors could “refer” their patients to lawyers for help in dealing with a housing dispute, immigration status, or any number of legal issues?</p> <p>On this episode of <em>The Dose</em>, we hear from Norma Tinubu and Emily Foote about how attorneys from the New York Legal Assistance Group work with health care providers at NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the U.S.</p> <p>Through this medical-legal partnership, some of the city’s poorest patients can get the support they need to resolve legal problems that, if ignored, could take a toll on their health.</p>