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suburbs and poor people migrated from Puerto gynaecology, mental health care, dentistry,
Rico and other Spanish speaking countries to nutrition, eye care and some specialty services in
Boston bringing with them their health neurology, dermatology, asthma and obesity and
problems. also complementary services such as
acupuncture. All of these services are bilingual
I was asked by a group of people living in in Spanish and English.
Boston’s South End to do something for the
children in that neighbourhood, who had no I am now taking care of the grandchildren of my
access to good medical care. Together with the first patients and I am still working part time and
community activists and a brilliant retired also teaching Harvard Medical School students.
businessman we started a children’s clinic in
1969 which eventually We have a satellite health
became the South End centre in a nearby school
Community Health providing paediatric
Centre. I was the first services, counselling and
doctor and served as dentistry for over five
Chief Physician for the hundred children.
next forty years. We now My wife and I have three daughters and three
have a new modern grand children and we still live in Cambridge
facility with nearly two Massachusetts. My wife Terry is a potter and she
hundred employees. We serve over six thousand has a studio in our home on Martha’s Vineyard
patients, providing primary health care to where we spend as much time as possible.
children and adults as well as obstetrics and
South End Community Health Center in action
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