The C.D. Doyle Clinic, a weekly initiative at Esperanza Community Center in Southeast Austin, offers free health services to uninsured and homeless individuals. Run by medical students from UT Austin's Dell Medical School, the clinic addresses the urgent healthcare needs of the community's residents.
Tony Zhu, a pre-med student at UT Austin, checks R-Sya Chen’s vitals at the C.D. Doyle Clinic inside the Esperanza Community Center.
“I was really drawn to the mission of providing care to the underserved population, regardless of their background or insurance status,”The student-operated clinic is run out of Esperanza’s community center, behind rows and rows of small, candy-colored shelters that serve as transitional housing for people trying to get back on their feet.
“My blood pressure is high because I'm worried and depressed,” Chen joked after an undergraduate volunteer checked his blood pressure. “Otherwise I'm OK. I'm 68 years old, so I’ll have some trouble. It's reasonable.” “Normally, I don't have to come to do that, but since my doctor's appointment is beyond my medication date, I had to come in and get it bridged,” he said.
“When you give medical – particularly motivated and altruistic – medical students and undergraduate students the opportunity, the time and the resources to give back, they can really do that,” he said.
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