Medical Care for the Uninsured - My Experience

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Thursday June 12, 2008 · 4:23 PM PDT

2008/06/12 · 16:23

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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Would you support a free clinic in your community?

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Would you support a free clinic in your community?

Yes, definitely!

299 votes

Yes, if I could.

97 votes

Not in my back yard!

8 votes

Let them go to the Emergency Room.

2 votes

Pie

2 votes

WYFP? Chamber Music Edition

drchelo

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Saturday April 07, 2007 · 5:00 PM PDT

2007/04/07 · 17:00

No, I don't think we need to start getting all highbrow here at Daily Kos, but I was invited to a "soiree" tonight that involves some of my favorite things - music and people. My down-the-alley neighbors, Mark and Barbara, regularly host Saturday Night Patio Music get-togethers to introduce people to up-and-coming recording artists that we otherwise would not have a chance to meet. These are often singer-songwriters in the folk/Indie/World Music tradition, and as the evening wears on, acoustic instruments materialize and the people at our end of the alley are serenaded with some pretty darn good acoustic jams. When I saw va dare's picture of her picking on her new mandolin last week, I got inspired to take out my Flatiron that has patiently waited in its case for these many months, and started re-learning "Wildwood Flower" and "Soldier's Joy" and other fiddle tunes.

So join me below the fold, and let's talk about chamber music and some of its New World offspring.

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What is your favorite Chamber Music Ensemble?

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What is your favorite Chamber Music Ensemble?

The Kronos Quartet

19 votes

The Cleveland Chamber Symphony

2 votes

La SociÃ©tÃ© Pro Musica

7 votes

The Boston Chamber Ensemble

2 votes

The Guillard String Quartet

7 votes

The Red Clay Ramblers

4 votes

Flatt & Scruggs

11 votes

Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys

17 votes

Norman and Nancy Blake

1 vote

The Toddlers with Spoon and Pans

16 votes

A Christmas List?

drchelo

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Friday December 22, 2006 · 5:17 PM PST

2006/12/22 · 17:17

Now that the gifts for family and friends have been wrapped and labeled, now that the cards have been sent to the real folks in my life, it is time for me to think of what kinds of Christmas presents I should give to those individuals who, for good or bad, have taken up much of my time and energy this Election Year.
So, join me below the fold, and see what I have given, and maybe add your suggestions for completing my Christmas List.

drchelo

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Sunday October 01, 2006 · 5:56 PM PDT

2006/10/01 · 17:56

Military Doctors at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility regularly force-feed detainees who are trying to fight back in the only way they can - by going on hunger strikes. How can physicians, who take an oath to do no harm, deal with the gap between military orders and their own ethics?
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