Doctors of the World [DoW], a relief group usually found in countries devastated by war, has opened its first US clinic—in Rockaway! What, really!?

Harry Chang, Executive Director of DoW, explained that they believe health care is a fundamental right and that physicians should advocate for social justice in addition to being practitioners. In Rockaway, the shortage of health care services is so severe that it is designated a “chronically underserved population”; in other words, there are third world conditions of poverty and neglect on the peninsula that need to be addressed. DoW has responded by providing free patient care while pursuing long-term solutions in public policy, ever mindful that, in Chinese, the word “crisis” is actually comprised of two characters: danger and opportunity…

Link to: http://doctorsoftheworld.org/rockawaysfreeclinic/