A Free Clinic Builds “Bridges to Health” by Treating the Whole Patient
This post originally appeared on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Blog . There’s no bus service in his small town in rural North Carolina, so Dean* drives 10 miles to The Free Clinics ("Clinics") in Hendersonville every couple of weeks whenever he has money for gas. Staff there helped him find affordable medications and treatments for cancer and for his shoulder, which he injured by falling 20 feet on a construction site. He’s unable to read due to learning...