HELPING WITH HEALTH COSTS
For Rigoberto Ramirez, volunteering at the JayDoc Clinic in Kansas City, Kan., is a natural component of his commitment to service.
Ramirez left a business career and worked at a hospital in his hometown, Great Bend, while waiting to start medical school. Now in his second year at the KU School of Medicine, he is one of three executive directors of the all-volunteer clinic run by KU students and physicians from the staff and community. About 2,000 patients a year, many without health insurance, receive free treatment or referral.
Ramirez and his colleagues, and a similar group at the KU School of Medicine in Wichita, know how essential their service is.“Fortunately,” he says,“JayDoc has been there to catch many of these patients and keep them healthy enough to continue working.”
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Rigoberto Ramirez (above) is one of three executive directors of the all-volunteer JayDoc Clinic in Kansas City.Two nights a week, Ramirez and other students at the KU Medical Center (top right) treat adult and child patients (top) under the guidance of physicians who also volunteer their time.
