A Free Medical Clinic Opened in Rural East Texas. Thousands Poured in for help.

Ted Mettetal, left, and Doug Curran outside the East Texas Community Clinic’s Athens location. The friends first met in medical school and decided to open a clinic available to anyone, regardless of ability to pay. Credit: Blaine Young/Public Health Watch

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Retirement didn’t suit the doctors, anyway. They relished the joys and pace of small-town medicine: delivering a baby in the morning, stitching up a wound in the afternoon, making a house call after work.“When you’re used to going 90 miles an hour, you kind of go stir crazy,” Mettetal said.Robison ...

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