Doctors Without Borders

Wow.

Like the Doctors Without Borders, you know, a lot of physicians.

Like Doctors Without Borders, but this is

a thing that's organized by the ashram, right? Okay.

So that was my change from Western, scientific, Newtonian, Cartesian world into the world of called spirituality or...

My name is Trish Newport.

I work for Doctors Without Borders.

And in French, it's called Médecins Sans Frontières, which then has the acronym that it goes by, which is MSF.

I started with MSF in 2008 as a nurse, and I worked for many years in many different countries and many different outbreaks and emergency responses as a nurse.

And Susan, as you said, I just came back from the DRC.

And just before I left, I went through all of our projects to visit them.

And I spent time in the communities and talking to different nurses, nurses from the DRC that are not working with Doctors Without Borders and asking them about their experience at this moment.

And you have nurses that say, I spend time with the village chief.

I almost was like, I'm not going to publish this.

And then I looked up what the CEO of the nonprofit organization Doctors Without Borders makes.

And that person makes $289,000 a year.

And the Yoga Alliance CEO makes $511,000 a year.

And I was like, Doctors Without Borders sends literal medical professionals into war zones.

And that CEO, and they make so much more than the Yoga Alliance, like hundreds of millions of dollars is donated to this organization every year.

And I went, you know, I just have to tell the story.

And of course, the main causes that we are highlighting, championing, spotlighting are...

World Central Kitchen, and Doctors Without Borders.

If you want to know more about these causes, why we're supporting them, what they mean to us, check out idlingintheempire.com. There's a page there called Cause is Cause with all the details.

So with that, we will say a huge thank you to Gilda for joining us.

It's accountability in action.

In 2016, Doctors Without Borders was outraged by what it viewed as Pfizer using advertising to influence lawmakers, citing a case where the company bought up prime advertising real estate along London's Westminster tube station.

Ooh.

Pharmaceutical advertising in the UK? Okay! I mean, we get it for, like, paracetamol or acetaminophen, I think is what Americans call it, like Panadol.

This is the station used by members of Parliament, and the advertising in question, according to Doctors Without Borders, presented unverified information to directly influence those in Parliament.

Doctors Without Borders was especially critical of the adverts, claiming that Pfizer spends a billion dollars to bring a new drug to market, which they insisted that ignores early-stage drug innovation, is largely funded by taxpayers through universities and government-funded labs.

In protest, Doctors Without Borders put their own statements over the Pfizer adverts, pointing out what they deemed misinformation.

Wait, how? They just went in there and, like, vandalized Pfizer's adverts? Doctors Without Borders, you're not the, um, you're not Greenpeace.

But the thing, the other big thing that we became well known for and well respected for was their working community.

For things like suicide prevention, we raise money for Medicines Sans Frontieres, World Food Programme, local charities here.

So they were very busy getting integrated themselves into Swedish society, which they did incredibly well.

I mean, they're all trilingual speakers of English, Swedish and their own language.

We had advices in our beginning from this organization.

A German member of the board, of the international board, in German means Doctors Without Borders.

Ah, yes, Doctors Without Borders.

So he advised us a little bit, and we had a very good cooperation.

Not institutional, but on the working area.

C'est un bon exemple.

Ou joindre Médecins sans frontières, où on gère des urgences dans des contextes qui changent tout le temps.

C'est une façon très juste de l'illustrer.

C'est vraiment le grand compromis qu'exige ce choix de carrière là.