On the Ragged Edge of Medicine Pest Control Landscape Use and Ecological Function:

Landscape Use and Ecological Function: A native plant

Growing as a shrub or small tree

the leaf undersides are either smooth or covered in small reddish hairs

Turning a  yellow to red color in autumn

or just hoping to grow your own salads all summer long

On the Ragged Edge of Medicine Pest Control Landscape Use and Ecological Function:On the Ragged Edge of Medicine offers a unique and personal glimpse into a medical practice for the homeless and urban poor in Portland, Oregon. Told through fifteen patient vignettes and drawn from the authors decades of experience on the front lines, this revealing memoir illuminates the impact of poverty on the delivery of health services and the ways in which people adapt and survive (or dont survive) in conditions of abuse and deprivation.