DR HOTSPOT Illness. Poverty. What do you think about when you read or hear those words? One word that links the two of these words together is healthcare. In our day and age it can be expensive, lack of quality and hospitals are beginning to require patients to have health insurance. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, a local physician in Camden, New Jersey which is a city of 79,000 people and one of the poorest cities in the country. "It's had three of its last six mayors indicted and convicted of corruption. It's just recently laid off half its police department. [It's an] incredibly challenged place. It's been taken over by state government -- the city government, school district, police department -- in various stages, at various points. So it's a very challenged small city." (WGBH Educational Foundation, July 26th, 2011). After seeing the poor treatment of patients and putting all the data together he decided something needed to be done about this. He brought together counselors, doctors and CNA's, and many others to help others in great need in this poor city. "We thought we could change that by bringing care to them. We've lost the art of the home visit. There's something very powerful about going into someone's home, building a relationship, sitting down with them, getting to know them, getting to know their family members. And there's something very empowering to patients when you come to them. It can be frightening to be in a doctor's office, and it can be frightening to have a doctor in a white coat walk into the room. It can be alienating to patients. And it sends a really powerful message of how much you care about them when you come to their house. And you also realize the circumstances they're living in." (WGBH Educational Foundation, July 26th, 2011) There is a very fine line in what is ethical and what is not in this situation. I see no ethical problem with this personally, but looking at it from someone else's point of view, such as a CEO of a hospital. They may view it as that this program that Dr. Brenner has set up is making them lose money due to the fact that they are keeping people out of the ER where the majority of costs come from. But at the same time as the great nation that we are, is it not a part of our responsibility to take care of our sick, poor and poverty sicken? That the people that are well off to help others and to have humanity and compassion towards others? If hospitals were to view it as this instead of where they can make