Rudolf Virchow and social medicine

Some random history for today:

I always thought Rudolf Virchow was an interesting physician. Granted he didn't believe in Darwinism or antisceptics, but he did have a great faith in medicine as a tool to lift the condition of communities. Virchow is credited with the founding of "social medicine" positing that disease is never purely biological, but often, socially derived.

I came across this page of his quotes and especially liked this one:

"Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of human beings, has the obligation to point out problems and to attempt their theoretical solution: the politician, the practical anthropologist, must find the means for their actual solution."

I leave it to you to determine this quote's modern day significance.