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Amy Ewing

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Tuesday, November 7, 2017 - 08:45

This Date in UCSF History: Making Do in Financial Crisis

By Amy Ewing
[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper Nov. 6, 1997] Last year I arranged to spend the month of July working at two small hospitals in San Miguel, a town of 50,000 people in the highlands of central Mexico. I went hoping to learn how Mexican-born patients, who would make up much of my practice here, are cared for at home for common problems like diabetes, hypertension and stroke.
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