“Without nurses and midwives on the frontlines, universal health coverage cannot happen” -@DrTedros during signing of @NursingNow2020 MoU at @WHO HQpic.twitter.com/kegnDGPK1j
I’m compelled to draw your attention to the word “frontline”. It’s time we change this negative connotation word synonymous w/ war to “point of care”. Patients are central to the care #Nurses provide. We are not in a fight/war with our patients. #WordsHaveMeaning
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I'm in the words business... I'm interested in which way you would lead your suggestion: 1) use another word; or 2) emphasize nurses' and community health workers' position at the front of the line, ready to deliver when people seek or need care?
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I’d choose option 1, new word. Option 2 can shift easily back to the status quo. Point of care
Frontline 
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Tedros isn't an MD,never treated 1 patient and covered up cholera epidemic. He's STILL in the "frontline" as senior member of Tigray People's Liberation Front,an ethnic supremacist party that killed maimed tortured 1,000s in
#Ethiopia which is why Ethiopians said#NoTedros4WHOpic.twitter.com/CFRWlbY7pB
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