THURSDAY NIGHT IS HEALTH CARE CHANGE NIGHT, a weekly Daily Kos Health Care Series
I was Medical Director of a charity-based clinic for six years. The Clinic was established by charity that started with a thrift store in a church, and grew to include a sheltered workshop, a day shelter, a place for free breakfast and lunches, job and family counseling, low-cost housing management, as well as the original thrift store. Unfortunately, circumstances, the immediate post-9/11 economy, and inexperienced management eventually caused the charity - and the Clinic - to close down. It broke my heart to have to give up that practice. as it was one of the most fulfilling practices of medicine I have ever participated in. This is my story of the Clinic.
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