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03-10-2016, 07:14 PM
'Street medicine' doctors make house calls to the homeless
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ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania — They're house calls without the house.
Far from the sterile confines of a doctor's ****** or hospital, Brett Feldman looks for homeless people where they're most likely to be found — in wooded encampments, under bridges, along riverbanks, at soup kitchens — and treats them for ailments ranging from diabetes to trench foot, mental illness to substance use disorders.
SEE ALSO: The trick is to treat homeless people like any other tenant (http://mashable.com/2015/01/11/design-for-the-homeless/)
The 34-year-old physician assistant is one of the nation's few practitioners of "street medicine," a tiny health care niche that advocates predict will become more mainstream as hospitals and health care systems seek to cut costs, in part by reducing emergency room visits among the homeless. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/homeless-street-medicine/)
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ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania — They're house calls without the house.
Far from the sterile confines of a doctor's ****** or hospital, Brett Feldman looks for homeless people where they're most likely to be found — in wooded encampments, under bridges, along riverbanks, at soup kitchens — and treats them for ailments ranging from diabetes to trench foot, mental illness to substance use disorders.
SEE ALSO: The trick is to treat homeless people like any other tenant (http://mashable.com/2015/01/11/design-for-the-homeless/)
The 34-year-old physician assistant is one of the nation's few practitioners of "street medicine," a tiny health care niche that advocates predict will become more mainstream as hospitals and health care systems seek to cut costs, in part by reducing emergency room visits among the homeless. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/10/homeless-street-medicine/)
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