The Latest Reports in Health Policy
- "Hitching a Ride to Health Care: Retired Physicians Volunteer to Serve the Uninsured": The article by reporter Mike Mitka profiles Dr. Jack McConnell, founder of the Volunteers in Medicine Institute, which helps set up free clinics that use retired doctors, nurses, dentists and other health care professionals to treat the medically underserved. The group has helped open 20 clinics in 11 states, reaching 66,953 patients (Mitka, JAMA, 11/13).
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