Leana Wen

Fatal overdoses are rising among an estimated 19,000 people who use heroin in Baltimore. To curb deaths, the city's health commissioner aims to make an antidote widely available to drug users.

Dr. Leana Wen decided to leave frontline medical care to tend to the city of Baltimore's health needs. Geography and circumstance shouldn't determine someone's health destiny, she says.

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/050513_1.mp3Almost 80 percent of all medical diagnoses can be made from a patient’s history and current symptoms.…