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mopinko

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Wed Mar 9, 2016, 01:38 PM Mar 2016

single payer advocates probably have heard of dr quentin young. sad news

Dr. Quentin Young, Chicago activist for civil rights and public health, dies at 92

Dr. Quentin Young, a champion of civil rights and public health reform who was chairman of medicine at Cook County Hospital during a tumultuous period in the 1970s, died Monday, according to his family.

Young, 92, died of natural causes in the Berkeley, Calif., home of his daughter Polly, where he had been living since July 2014, his son Michael said. He had lived in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood for most of his life.

Young maintained his Hyde Park medical practice into his mid-80s while also keeping busy with any number of causes. He pushed to end discriminatory practices at Chicago-area hospitals in the 1950s, co-founded the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the 1960s, marched for civil rights and against war and spent decades advocating for national health care.

"It's true that over the years I've aligned myself with unpopular causes," Young told the Tribune in 2001. "But over time they've become the majority opinions."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-quentin-young-dead-20160308-story.html

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