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New Healthcare Initiative: Teaching Children to Save Lives
By Cory SerVaas, M.D.
Published: July/August 2001

A bill that provides grants for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in public schools may soon be introduced to the U.S. Senate by Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold. We hope that the resulting legislation will also provide funds for purchasing automated defibrillators and training children how to use the lifesaving devices.

To learn more about this good initiative and to show your support for the increased availability of defibrillators, write to Senator Feingold at 506 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510, call his office at 202-224-5323, visit his Web site at www.senate.gov/~feingold, or contact your U.S. senator.



Article reprinted from the July/August 2001 issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. Read more at www.satevepost.org, © Copyright 2005 Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, All rights reserved