First the left arm. Then the right.
Jonathan Wong, a
29-year-old Wayne State University medical student, moved the blood
pressure cuff from one of Thomas Wise's arms to the other to get a
better reading. Then, another medical student tested the 45-year-old's
cranial nerve response -- could he puff his cheeks? Could he move his
tongue?
The students were at St. John Congregational Church in
Detroit on Friday, treating some of the men in the church's shelter as
part of a new venture between about 100 Wayne State medical students and
the Neighborhood Service Organization (NSO).
Called Street
Medicine Detroit, the program takes doctors-to-be such as Wong and Paul
Thomas, 25, out of the clinic and into the city, treating homeless
people in the shelters, parks and underpasses where they often live.
http://www.freep.com/article/20130107/NEWS01/301070047/1001/news
Monday, January 7, 2013
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