Rural Assembly
“How are you, Jeff?”: Whitney Kimball Coe checks on RAM’s CEO Jeff Eastman
In this short video, Whitney Kimball Coe, Director of the Rural Assembly and National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies, reached out to her neighbor in Athens, Jeff Eastman. Watch the video
Matter of Fact, Soledad O’Brien
Remote Area Medical’s Traveling Clinics Reveal a Big Problem with America’s Health Care System
Millions of Americans have health insurance, but do they have health care? Jeff Eastman says no. Watch the video
The New Republic
Scenes From the Ragged Edge of American Health Care
December 13, 2019 – At a Remote Area Medical clinic outside the nation’s capital, doctors treat those who have fallen through the cracks in the system. Read the article
CNN
This nonprofit brings free healthcare to those who can’t afford it.
October 30, 2019 – A nonprofit called Remote Area Medical sets up free pop up clinics all across the US, and crowds line up for hours to get their dental, vision and medical checked out by volunteers. Watch video →
Fox News
Group offers help to Americans living in ‘health care deserts’ – Part One
Aug. 14, 2019 – 5:34 – Remote Area Medical is offering help to rural Americans who may be hours away from the closest medical facility; Jonathan Serrie reports. (Part 1 of 2) Watch video →
Group looks to connect rural Americans with access to health care – Part Two
Aug. 14, 2019 – 5:34 – Remote Area Medical is offering help to rural Americans who may be hours away from the closest medical facility; Jonathan Serrie reports. (Part 2 of 2) Watch video →
The Today Show
MOBILE MEDICAL CENTERS: INSIDE LOOK AT DOCTORS LENDING A HAND
Last year was the busiest yet for Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit group of volunteer doctors and health professionals providing care to those in need — no insurance required. NBC’s Rehema Ellis takes a look at their incredible work.
View Story →
The Washington Post
URGENT NEEDS FROM HEAD TO TOE’: THIS CLINIC HAD TWO DAYS TO FIX A LIFETIME OF NEEDS
CLEVELAND, TENN. — They were told to arrive early if they wanted to see a doctor, so Lisa and Stevie Crider left their apartment in rural Tennessee almost 24 hours before the temporary medical clinic was scheduled to open. They packed a plastic bag with what had become their daily essentials after 21 years of marriage: An ice pack for his recurring chest pain. Tylenol for her swollen feet. Peroxide for the abscess in his mouth. Gatorade for her low blood sugar and chronic dehydration.
Read more →
THOUSANDS FLOCK TO FREE MEDICAL CLINIC, AS WASHINGTON DITHERS ON HEALTH CARE
The sick and the disabled pour out of these mountains every summer for their one shot at free health care, but this year was supposed to hold hope for a better solution.
Read more →
AMERICA DISCOVERS WHAT THE COAL COMPANIES LEFT BEHIND IN APPALACHIAN VIRGINIA
It used to be that the news media rediscovered the poor Appalachian coalfields of Southwest Virginia only about once a year in June or July when a thousand or two thousand people would line up for free health care offered by the worthy Remote Area Medical organization in towns such as Wise.
Read more →
THE WISE, VA., DENTAL CLINIC ILLUSTRATES THE TRAVESTY OF HEALTH CARE DENIED
The July 25 Metro article “Giving more smiles to more folks” was uplifting, but it brought to light a travesty.
Read more →
THE HEALING FIELDS
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
Read more →
RETURN OF RAM: ANOTHER YEAR WITHOUT HEALTH CARE FOR VIRGINIANS
On a muggy summer day last year, I drove up the winding roads of Coeburn Mountain (sometimes called Wise Mountain, depending on which of those towns you call home).
Read more →
HIDDEN HURT: DESPERATE FOR MEDICAL CARE….
Pain hides in these green mountains. Diseased hearts and clouded lungs, aching teeth and anxious minds.
Read more →
BBC
BBC DOCUMENTARY – TOOTHLESS AND UNINSURED IN VIRGINIA
The BBC came to the Symth County, Virginia Remote Area Medical clinic in May 2018 to see the work of RAM volunteers. Over the weekend, several hundred people received dental, vision, and medical care free-of-charge. Click below to watch the entire BBC documentary!
MEDICAL CHARITY HELPING US POOR
He started a charity – Remote Area Medical (RAM) – more than 20 years ago to bring relief to those cut off from healthcare.
Read more →
Forbes
Patient Number One At The Front Door Of Free Healthcare In America
From a distance and through any lens, life at 3 a.m. can get pretty grainy, but it can also be the exact time when human determination comes into sharp focus. It would be all too easy to discount the image above as just another homeless person taking refuge under the safety of outdoor lighting, but this 64-year-old woman wasn’t homeless.
Read more →
The Times
Dental care pioneer Stan Brock wants to bring mega‑clinics to Britain
Over the past 30 years Stan Brock has set up hundreds of massive temporary clinics across America, bringing dentists and eye doctors to the country’s poorest people.
Read more →
Americans flock to free clinics run by retired British cowboy, 81
When the doors opened at 6am at least 300 people were standing in line. A vast convention centre in Baltimore had been transformed into a giant temporary free medical clinic. Word had spread among the city’s working poor.
Read more →
BBC Radio
Dental care pioneer Stan Brock wants to bring mega‑clinics to Britain
Over the past 30 years Stan Brock has set up hundreds of massive temporary clinics across America, bringing dentists and eye doctors to the country’s poorest people.
Read more →
Americans flock to free clinics run by retired British cowboy, 81
When the doors opened at 6am at least 300 people were standing in line. A vast convention centre in Baltimore had been transformed into a giant temporary free medical clinic. Word had spread among the city’s working poor.
Read more →
CNN
FORMER COWBOY FLYING FREE HEALTH CARE TO THOSE IN NEED
Several decades ago, Stan Brock nearly died when a horse kicked him in the head.
He was in the middle of the Amazon rain forest, not exactly the easiest spot to find a doctor.
Read more →
The New York Times
WHEN HEALTH LAW ISN’T ENOUGH, THE DESPERATE LINE UP AT TENTS
Anthony Marino, 54, reached into his car trunk to show a pair of needle-nosed pliers like the ones he used to yank out a rotting tooth.
Read more →
NO INSURANCE, BUT FOR 3 DAYS, HEALTH CARE IS WITHIN REACH
For a man who needed 18 teeth pulled, Daniel Smith was looking chipper.
Read more →
THE TOOTH DIVIDE: BEAUTY, CLASS AND THE STORY OF DENTISTRY
Politicians, journalists and researchers have a long-running problem when it comes to talking about class.
Read more →
PATIENTS WITHOUT BORDERS
This woman traveled 75 miles to see a Remote Area Medical dermatologist, who removed two lesions from her back and sent them to a pathology lab.
Read more →
A DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
If you were unaware that there are people in the United States who don’t receive proper health care, “Remote Area Medical,” a documentary about the nonprofit organization of that name, certainly shows you what they look like, in blunt, tooth-decaying detail.
Read more →
LINING UP FOR HELP
We’ve been so caught up in dissecting the technical arguments over health care reform that it is easy to lose sight of the human dimensions of the crisis.
Read more →
THOUSANDS LINE UP FOR PROMISE OF FREE HEALTH CARE
They came for new teeth mostly, but also for blood pressure checks, mammograms, immunizations and acupuncture for pain.
Read more →
The Guardian
RURAL APPALACHIA IS FACING A HEALTHCARE CRISIS. I FEAR IT’S GOING TO GET MUCH WORSE
My family lives in central Appalachia, in places too tiny to be called towns. These rural “hollers” are the heart of this beautiful but hardscrabble mountain region.
Read more → </a
THE ENORMOUS POP-UP CLINIC TRYING TO BRIDGE AMERICA’S HEALTH DIVIDE
Nearly 33 million Americans – more than 10% of the country’s population – have no health insurance. While the very poorest are entitled to Medicaid coverage, millions more narrowly fail to qualify, but remain too poor to pay for private health insurance.
Read more →
FREE HEALTHCARE CLINIC IN INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA
For one week this month, US nonprofit Remote Area Medical has organised a large-scale temporary health clinic near Los Angeles. Hundreds of uninsured Americans are arriving for health screenings.
Read more →
The Huffington Post
CONGRESS NEEDS TO WAKE UP ON HEALTHCARE
Every time I tune-in to the “debate” on health care, it amazes me how utterly asleep Congress and the media are with respect to this issue.
Read more →
AN ILLUMINATING EXPEDITION TO THE WORLD OF THE UNINSURED
As Congressional Republicans seek ways to starve the new health care reform law of necessary funding — and Democrats try to keep that from happening — it’s easy to lose sight of the reasons why reform was pursued in the first place.
Read more →
DOCTORS TREATING SICK IN AFRICA NOW AID U.S. UNINSURED
I wish every candidate for public office would be required to spend an hour or two volunteering at one of the free clinics operated throughout the country by a nonprofit organization, Remote Area Medical.
Read more →
The Daily Mail
‘I WISH I COULD GET PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SEE THIS’: FAIRGROUND BECOMES A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL ‘LIKE YOU’D EXPECT TO SEE IN SUDAN’ TO DEAL WITH THE US HEALTH CARE CRISIS AS OFFICIALS GRUMBLE OVER OBAMACARE
President Trump has been urged to visit a country fairground in Virginia which has become a makeshift hospital to deal with the US health care crisis.
Read more →
Yahoo News
IN VIRGINIA, CHARITY OFFERS HEALTH CARE TO NEEDY
In Wise, a town in rural western Virginia, hundreds of people have lined up at the county fairgrounds for a numbered ticket, some of them 24 hours ahead of time.
Read more →
FREE MEDICAL CLINIC SERVES THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
It’s 5 a.m. on a Friday. Nearly 1,500 people have been lining up for the past 24 hours in the parking lot of the Wise County fairgrounds in southwest Virginia. But they aren’t here for a summer-time fair.
Read more →
Fox News
MOBILE CLINIC HELPS MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY
“We’re their health source,” said Ron Brewer, who coordinates the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps mobile clinic program for rural Tennessee. “They depend on us as their visit to the doctor.”
Read more →
Bloomberg
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL DEPICTS WHERE OBAMACARE FALLS SHORT
Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, and Farihah Zamar, co-director and co-producer of “Remote Area Medical,” a new documentary film about the group’s work, discuss their efforts to help people who don’t have health insurance.
Read more →
USA Today
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL OFFERS FREE WEEKEND MEDICAL CLINIC
Remote Area Medical will host a free clinic for East Tennesseans who are unable to visit a doctor for lack of insurance or cost-prohibitive deductibles.
Read more →
The Wall Street Journal
POP-UP HEALTH CLINICS FILL A VOID IN CARE
Nonprofits use volunteers to allow patients to see a doctor or dentist—even if it’s only for a day.
Read more →
Reuters
HEALTHCARE IN APPALACHIA
People needing dental and vision care arrive at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Wise, Virginia July 20, 2012.
Read more →
CNBC
THOUSANDS LINE UP FOR PROMISE OF FREE HEALTH CARE
They came for new teeth mostly, but also for blood pressure checks, mammograms, immunizations and acupuncture for pain.
Read more →
TIME
AS CONGRESS FIGHTS, THOUSANDS CAMP OUT FOR FREE HEALTH CARE
In the wee hours of July 21, the parking lot of a county fairground in Wise, Va., was packed with families sleeping in their cars or in makeshift beds tucked between vehicles.
Read more →
HELPING TO HEAL
The clinic this year was organized at the county fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia. Technicians converted buildings normally used to house livestock into impromptu examination rooms.
Read more →
Los Angeles Times
PANORAMA: REMOTE AREA MEDICAL CLINIC IN LOS ANGELES
Patients receive free dental treatment Tuesday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, the first day of a free mobile health clinic.
Read more →
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL PROVIDES FREE HEALTHCARE SERVICES
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL EXPEDITION
Dozens of volunteer dentists work on participants in the Remote Area Medical expedition at the Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday.
Read more →
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL HEALTH FAIR
Jessie Barbour, left, and a tearful Kimberly Anne Hall hug after getting free medical and dental help on the eighth and final day of the Remote Area Medical health fair and clinic at the Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday.
Read more →
DATELINE
DATELINE: RESCUE IN THE MOUNTAINS
Stan Brock and his Remote Area Medical team (RAM) devise a plan to save Medor, an isolated mountain village in Haiti, from the sickness and cholera that ravages its people. Ann Curry reports.
Watch video →
The Atlantic
LIFE IN THE SICKEST TOWN IN AMERICA
Donald Rose has no teeth, but that’s not his biggest problem. A camouflage hat droops over his ancient, wire-framed glasses. He’s only 43, but he looks much older.
Read more →
US News
FREE CLINIC OFFERS MEDICAL SERVICES TO THE UNINSURED
Teresa Parton and her niece Samantha wait in line to attend the Remote Area Medical free clinic at the Bristol Motor Speedway, located in the Appalachian mountains, in Bristol, Tenn. The Parton family does not have health insurance and attends the RAM clinics every year.
Read more →
60 minutes
60 MINUTES: US HEALTHCARE GETS BOOST FROM CHARITY
One of the decisive issues in the presidential campaign is likely to be health care. Some 47 million Americans have no health insurance, and that’s just the start: millions more are underinsured, unable to pay their deductibles or get access to dental care.
Read more →
ABC News
NIGHTLINE: REMOTE AREA MEDICAL: SERVING THE UNDERSERVED
MOBILE FREE CLINIC BRINGS HEALTH CARE TO US’S MOST UNDERSERVED AREAS
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a summer morning, and in the pre-dawn darkness a man, carved walking stick in hand, knapsack on his back, arrives at the Wise County, Va., fairgrounds. Robert Ellis has walked 15 miles, through the night, to get here. But he isn’t here for a summertime fair.
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REMOTE AREA MEDICAL IN ACTION
Remote Area Medical is a mobile clinic that travels across the country to bring free dental, eye and medical care to the most remote and underserved communities in the United States.
Read more →
SF Gate
FREE HEALTH CLINIC IN APPALACHIA
Around two thousand uninsured and under-insured are expected to receive free medical, dental, vision and pulmonary treatments provided by volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses and support staff during the three day clinic in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, one of the poorest regions in the country.
Read more →
FREE MEDICAL CLINICS IN OAKLAND, SACRAMENTO
A volunteer medical corps of doctors and nurses that provided free health care for about 7,000 patients last year in Oakland and Sacramento is back this week with plans to help even more people.
Read more →
FREE HEALTH CLINIC AIDS HUNDREDS IN NEED
By the time the free health clinic at the Oakland Coliseum opened Saturday at dawn, some 800 tickets had been handed out to people who waited in the cold all night for the chance to have a tooth extracted, get new glasses or to finally get prescription medications for arthritis or other painful conditions.
Read more →
Newsweek
‘REMOTE AREA MEDICAL’ SHOWS WHAT AMERICA’S UNINSURED GO THROUGH FOR HEALTH CARE
Imagine if your only option to get health care meant sleeping overnight in your car in a parking lot for a chance to be seen at a free, pop-up clinic the next morning.
Read more →
WHEN A FREE YEARLY CLINIC IS YOUR ONLY HEALTH CARE
Sheila Fowler is 43. She has short brown hair, a soft, girlish voice and three grandchildren. What she does not have is teeth, or a way to pay for dentures.
Read more →
CREATING A VOLUNTEER CORPS FOR AMERICA
Wise County, Va., may be one of the most picturesque places in America. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, it is home to more than 40,000 people, who make their homes in towns with names such as Big Stone Gap, Toms Creek, Crab Orchard, and Cranes Nest.
Read more →
NPR
DELIVERING HEALTH CARE TO THE UNINSURED FOR $15 A POP
What happens when you break a leg and you live hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital?
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RURAL MEDICAL CAMP TACKLES HEALTH CARE GAPS
It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out.
Read more →
MASS MEDICAL CLINIC’S SOBERING MESSAGE
I write and talk for a living. And I’ve pontificated endlessly about exploding volcanoes, mass shootings and disastrous storms. But some of what I saw at the county fairgrounds in Wise, Va., last month left me wordless.
Read more →
PBS
CARE TO UNINSURED IN RURAL VIRGINIA
A tent at a sweltering county fairgrounds in rural Virginia, not exactly the place you’d expect to get state-of-the-art dental care.
Read more →
GAPING, PAINFUL HOLES REMAIN IN U.S. HEALTH CARE DESPITE COVERAGE GAINS
The fate of the Affordable Care Act is at stake in Tuesday’s election. More than 20 million people have gained coverage through the health insurance reform law.
Read more →
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
In his interview with Bill Moyers, Wendell Potter told the story of his trip in 2007 to visit a “medical expedition” in Wise, Virginia run by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM).
Read more →
The New Yorker
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL FILM REVIEW
This deeply compassionate, quietly furious documentary by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman highlights, in dramatic detail, the woeful lack of medical care available to residents of one Appalachian community—and, by extension, to many Americans.
Read more →
The Washington Times
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL SENDS RELIEF TO HURRICANE-HIT HAITI
Remote Area Medical founder Stan Brock has been coming to Haiti since the 1970s.
But the post-Hurricane Matthew landscape is devastation even beyond what he’s seen before in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Read more →
MEDICAL GROUP TO HOST 2-DAYS OF FREE DENTAL, MEDICAL CARE
Thousands are expected to get medical, dental and optical treatment during a free clinic in Bradenton. More than 700 volunteers have spent a year coordinating the Remote Area Medical event which will be held at the Manatee Technical College Campus on Nov. 21 and 22.
Read more →
The Independent
STAN BROCK: THE BRITISH COWBOY TURNED MOVIE STAR WHO RESCUED MILLIONS OF UNINSURED AMERICANS
Stan Brock is nudging 80. His arms, hard as oak boughs, hint at the black belt he holds in taekwondo.
Read more →
THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA’S HEALTHCARE
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury.
Read more →
The Telegraph
‘DONALD TRUMP NEEDS TO SEE THIS’ – PATIENTS TREATED IN ANIMAL STALLS AS WASHINGTON BICKERS OVER OBAMACARE
As Republican politicians in Washington bickered over the fate of Obamacare this week hundreds of desperate people queued outside a county fairground 400 miles away in the hope of receiving basic medical treatment.
Read more →
BRITON PROVIDING FREE HEALTHCARE TO THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
Just as the American Right is attacking British health care, Mr. Brock, originally from Preston, Lancs, has set up his mobile clinic in the city for the first time after spending almost 25 years taking volunteer doctors and dentists to care for the poor in Third World countries.
Read more →
Aljazeera
US HEALTHCARE: PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS
When Stan Brock started Remote Area Medical (RAM) in 1985, never in his wildest dreams did he think his services would be needed in the United States, the wealthiest country in the world.
Read more →
Indie Wire
REVIEW: ‘REMOTE AREA MEDICAL’ WILL CHANGE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS
Almost heaven, Bristol, Tennessee. The nation’s official “Birthplace of Country Music” boasts the kind of breathtaking natural beauty that might inspire a John Denver song. But the pristine state of its mighty river and Appalachian mountain vistas stand in stark contrast to the degenerative physical state of most of its inhabitants.
Read more →
The Daily Show
THIRD WORLD HEALTH CARE – KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE EDITION
Aasif Mandvi highlights the quality of the best health care system in the world by visiting a clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Read more →
Fox News
Group offers help to Americans living in ‘health care deserts’ – Part One
Aug. 14, 2019 – 5:34 – Remote Area Medical is offering help to rural Americans who may be hours away from the closest medical facility; Jonathan Serrie reports. (Part 1 of 2) Watch video →
Group looks to connect rural Americans with access to health care – Part Two
Aug. 14, 2019 – 5:34 – Remote Area Medical is offering help to rural Americans who may be hours away from the closest medical facility; Jonathan Serrie reports. (Part 2 of 2) Watch video →
The Today Show
MOBILE MEDICAL CENTERS: INSIDE LOOK AT DOCTORS LENDING A HAND
Last year was the busiest yet for Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit group of volunteer doctors and health professionals providing care to those in need — no insurance required. NBC’s Rehema Ellis takes a look at their incredible work.
View Story →
The Washington Post
URGENT NEEDS FROM HEAD TO TOE’: THIS CLINIC HAD TWO DAYS TO FIX A LIFETIME OF NEEDS
CLEVELAND, TENN. — They were told to arrive early if they wanted to see a doctor, so Lisa and Stevie Crider left their apartment in rural Tennessee almost 24 hours before the temporary medical clinic was scheduled to open. They packed a plastic bag with what had become their daily essentials after 21 years of marriage: An ice pack for his recurring chest pain. Tylenol for her swollen feet. Peroxide for the abscess in his mouth. Gatorade for her low blood sugar and chronic dehydration.
Read more →
THOUSANDS FLOCK TO FREE MEDICAL CLINIC, AS WASHINGTON DITHERS ON HEALTH CARE
The sick and the disabled pour out of these mountains every summer for their one shot at free health care, but this year was supposed to hold hope for a better solution.
Read more →
AMERICA DISCOVERS WHAT THE COAL COMPANIES LEFT BEHIND IN APPALACHIAN VIRGINIA
It used to be that the news media rediscovered the poor Appalachian coalfields of Southwest Virginia only about once a year in June or July when a thousand or two thousand people would line up for free health care offered by the worthy Remote Area Medical organization in towns such as Wise.
Read more →
THE WISE, VA., DENTAL CLINIC ILLUSTRATES THE TRAVESTY OF HEALTH CARE DENIED
The July 25 Metro article “Giving more smiles to more folks” was uplifting, but it brought to light a travesty.
Read more →
THE HEALING FIELDS
Hundreds of uninsured and underinsured Americans flock to Wise County, Va., every year to seek treatment at a makeshift field hospital operated by the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps.
Read more →
RETURN OF RAM: ANOTHER YEAR WITHOUT HEALTH CARE FOR VIRGINIANS
On a muggy summer day last year, I drove up the winding roads of Coeburn Mountain (sometimes called Wise Mountain, depending on which of those towns you call home).
Read more →
HIDDEN HURT: DESPERATE FOR MEDICAL CARE….
Pain hides in these green mountains. Diseased hearts and clouded lungs, aching teeth and anxious minds.
Read more →
BBC
BBC DOCUMENTARY – TOOTHLESS AND UNINSURED IN VIRGINIA
The BBC came to the Symth County, Virginia Remote Area Medical clinic in May 2018 to see the work of RAM volunteers. Over the weekend, several hundred people received dental, vision, and medical care free-of-charge. Click below to watch the entire BBC documentary!
MEDICAL CHARITY HELPING US POOR
He started a charity – Remote Area Medical (RAM) – more than 20 years ago to bring relief to those cut off from healthcare.
Read more →
Forbes
Patient Number One At The Front Door Of Free Healthcare In America
From a distance and through any lens, life at 3 a.m. can get pretty grainy, but it can also be the exact time when human determination comes into sharp focus. It would be all too easy to discount the image above as just another homeless person taking refuge under the safety of outdoor lighting, but this 64-year-old woman wasn’t homeless.
Read more →
The Times
Dental care pioneer Stan Brock wants to bring mega‑clinics to Britain
Over the past 30 years Stan Brock has set up hundreds of massive temporary clinics across America, bringing dentists and eye doctors to the country’s poorest people.
Read more →
Americans flock to free clinics run by retired British cowboy, 81
When the doors opened at 6am at least 300 people were standing in line. A vast convention centre in Baltimore had been transformed into a giant temporary free medical clinic. Word had spread among the city’s working poor.
Read more →
BBC Radio
Dental care pioneer Stan Brock wants to bring mega‑clinics to Britain
Over the past 30 years Stan Brock has set up hundreds of massive temporary clinics across America, bringing dentists and eye doctors to the country’s poorest people.
Read more →
Americans flock to free clinics run by retired British cowboy, 81
When the doors opened at 6am at least 300 people were standing in line. A vast convention centre in Baltimore had been transformed into a giant temporary free medical clinic. Word had spread among the city’s working poor.
Read more →
CNN
FORMER COWBOY FLYING FREE HEALTH CARE TO THOSE IN NEED
Several decades ago, Stan Brock nearly died when a horse kicked him in the head.
He was in the middle of the Amazon rain forest, not exactly the easiest spot to find a doctor.
Read more →
The New York Times
WHEN HEALTH LAW ISN’T ENOUGH, THE DESPERATE LINE UP AT TENTS
Anthony Marino, 54, reached into his car trunk to show a pair of needle-nosed pliers like the ones he used to yank out a rotting tooth.
Read more →
NO INSURANCE, BUT FOR 3 DAYS, HEALTH CARE IS WITHIN REACH
For a man who needed 18 teeth pulled, Daniel Smith was looking chipper.
Read more →
THE TOOTH DIVIDE: BEAUTY, CLASS AND THE STORY OF DENTISTRY
Politicians, journalists and researchers have a long-running problem when it comes to talking about class.
Read more →
PATIENTS WITHOUT BORDERS
This woman traveled 75 miles to see a Remote Area Medical dermatologist, who removed two lesions from her back and sent them to a pathology lab.
Read more →
A DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW
If you were unaware that there are people in the United States who don’t receive proper health care, “Remote Area Medical,” a documentary about the nonprofit organization of that name, certainly shows you what they look like, in blunt, tooth-decaying detail.
Read more →
LINING UP FOR HELP
We’ve been so caught up in dissecting the technical arguments over health care reform that it is easy to lose sight of the human dimensions of the crisis.
Read more →
THOUSANDS LINE UP FOR PROMISE OF FREE HEALTH CARE
They came for new teeth mostly, but also for blood pressure checks, mammograms, immunizations and acupuncture for pain.
Read more →
The Guardian
RURAL APPALACHIA IS FACING A HEALTHCARE CRISIS. I FEAR IT’S GOING TO GET MUCH WORSE
My family lives in central Appalachia, in places too tiny to be called towns. These rural “hollers” are the heart of this beautiful but hardscrabble mountain region.
Read more → </a
THE ENORMOUS POP-UP CLINIC TRYING TO BRIDGE AMERICA’S HEALTH DIVIDE
Nearly 33 million Americans – more than 10% of the country’s population – have no health insurance. While the very poorest are entitled to Medicaid coverage, millions more narrowly fail to qualify, but remain too poor to pay for private health insurance.
Read more →
FREE HEALTHCARE CLINIC IN INGLEWOOD, CALIFORNIA
For one week this month, US nonprofit Remote Area Medical has organised a large-scale temporary health clinic near Los Angeles. Hundreds of uninsured Americans are arriving for health screenings.
Read more →
The Huffington Post
CONGRESS NEEDS TO WAKE UP ON HEALTHCARE
Every time I tune-in to the “debate” on health care, it amazes me how utterly asleep Congress and the media are with respect to this issue.
Read more →
AN ILLUMINATING EXPEDITION TO THE WORLD OF THE UNINSURED
As Congressional Republicans seek ways to starve the new health care reform law of necessary funding — and Democrats try to keep that from happening — it’s easy to lose sight of the reasons why reform was pursued in the first place.
Read more →
DOCTORS TREATING SICK IN AFRICA NOW AID U.S. UNINSURED
I wish every candidate for public office would be required to spend an hour or two volunteering at one of the free clinics operated throughout the country by a nonprofit organization, Remote Area Medical.
Read more →
The Daily Mail
‘I WISH I COULD GET PRESIDENT TRUMP TO SEE THIS’: FAIRGROUND BECOMES A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL ‘LIKE YOU’D EXPECT TO SEE IN SUDAN’ TO DEAL WITH THE US HEALTH CARE CRISIS AS OFFICIALS GRUMBLE OVER OBAMACARE
President Trump has been urged to visit a country fairground in Virginia which has become a makeshift hospital to deal with the US health care crisis.
Read more →
Yahoo News
IN VIRGINIA, CHARITY OFFERS HEALTH CARE TO NEEDY
In Wise, a town in rural western Virginia, hundreds of people have lined up at the county fairgrounds for a numbered ticket, some of them 24 hours ahead of time.
Read more →
FREE MEDICAL CLINIC SERVES THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
It’s 5 a.m. on a Friday. Nearly 1,500 people have been lining up for the past 24 hours in the parking lot of the Wise County fairgrounds in southwest Virginia. But they aren’t here for a summer-time fair.
Read more →
Fox News
MOBILE CLINIC HELPS MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY
“We’re their health source,” said Ron Brewer, who coordinates the Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps mobile clinic program for rural Tennessee. “They depend on us as their visit to the doctor.”
Read more →
Bloomberg
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL DEPICTS WHERE OBAMACARE FALLS SHORT
Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, and Farihah Zamar, co-director and co-producer of “Remote Area Medical,” a new documentary film about the group’s work, discuss their efforts to help people who don’t have health insurance.
Read more →
USA Today
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL OFFERS FREE WEEKEND MEDICAL CLINIC
Remote Area Medical will host a free clinic for East Tennesseans who are unable to visit a doctor for lack of insurance or cost-prohibitive deductibles.
Read more →
The Wall Street Journal
POP-UP HEALTH CLINICS FILL A VOID IN CARE
Nonprofits use volunteers to allow patients to see a doctor or dentist—even if it’s only for a day.
Read more →
Reuters
HEALTHCARE IN APPALACHIA
People needing dental and vision care arrive at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Wise, Virginia July 20, 2012.
Read more →
CNBC
THOUSANDS LINE UP FOR PROMISE OF FREE HEALTH CARE
They came for new teeth mostly, but also for blood pressure checks, mammograms, immunizations and acupuncture for pain.
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TIME
AS CONGRESS FIGHTS, THOUSANDS CAMP OUT FOR FREE HEALTH CARE
In the wee hours of July 21, the parking lot of a county fairground in Wise, Va., was packed with families sleeping in their cars or in makeshift beds tucked between vehicles.
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HELPING TO HEAL
The clinic this year was organized at the county fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia. Technicians converted buildings normally used to house livestock into impromptu examination rooms.
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Los Angeles Times
PANORAMA: REMOTE AREA MEDICAL CLINIC IN LOS ANGELES
Patients receive free dental treatment Tuesday at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, the first day of a free mobile health clinic.
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REMOTE AREA MEDICAL PROVIDES FREE HEALTHCARE SERVICES
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL EXPEDITION
Dozens of volunteer dentists work on participants in the Remote Area Medical expedition at the Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday.
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REMOTE AREA MEDICAL HEALTH FAIR
Jessie Barbour, left, and a tearful Kimberly Anne Hall hug after getting free medical and dental help on the eighth and final day of the Remote Area Medical health fair and clinic at the Forum in Inglewood on Tuesday.
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DATELINE
DATELINE: RESCUE IN THE MOUNTAINS
Stan Brock and his Remote Area Medical team (RAM) devise a plan to save Medor, an isolated mountain village in Haiti, from the sickness and cholera that ravages its people. Ann Curry reports.
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The Atlantic
LIFE IN THE SICKEST TOWN IN AMERICA
Donald Rose has no teeth, but that’s not his biggest problem. A camouflage hat droops over his ancient, wire-framed glasses. He’s only 43, but he looks much older.
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US News
FREE CLINIC OFFERS MEDICAL SERVICES TO THE UNINSURED
Teresa Parton and her niece Samantha wait in line to attend the Remote Area Medical free clinic at the Bristol Motor Speedway, located in the Appalachian mountains, in Bristol, Tenn. The Parton family does not have health insurance and attends the RAM clinics every year.
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60 minutes
60 MINUTES: US HEALTHCARE GETS BOOST FROM CHARITY
One of the decisive issues in the presidential campaign is likely to be health care. Some 47 million Americans have no health insurance, and that’s just the start: millions more are underinsured, unable to pay their deductibles or get access to dental care.
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ABC News
NIGHTLINE: REMOTE AREA MEDICAL: SERVING THE UNDERSERVED
MOBILE FREE CLINIC BRINGS HEALTH CARE TO US’S MOST UNDERSERVED AREAS
It’s 5:30 a.m. on a summer morning, and in the pre-dawn darkness a man, carved walking stick in hand, knapsack on his back, arrives at the Wise County, Va., fairgrounds. Robert Ellis has walked 15 miles, through the night, to get here. But he isn’t here for a summertime fair.
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REMOTE AREA MEDICAL IN ACTION
Remote Area Medical is a mobile clinic that travels across the country to bring free dental, eye and medical care to the most remote and underserved communities in the United States.
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SF Gate
FREE HEALTH CLINIC IN APPALACHIA
Around two thousand uninsured and under-insured are expected to receive free medical, dental, vision and pulmonary treatments provided by volunteer doctors, dentists, optometrists, nurses and support staff during the three day clinic in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, one of the poorest regions in the country.
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FREE MEDICAL CLINICS IN OAKLAND, SACRAMENTO
A volunteer medical corps of doctors and nurses that provided free health care for about 7,000 patients last year in Oakland and Sacramento is back this week with plans to help even more people.
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FREE HEALTH CLINIC AIDS HUNDREDS IN NEED
By the time the free health clinic at the Oakland Coliseum opened Saturday at dawn, some 800 tickets had been handed out to people who waited in the cold all night for the chance to have a tooth extracted, get new glasses or to finally get prescription medications for arthritis or other painful conditions.
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Newsweek
‘REMOTE AREA MEDICAL’ SHOWS WHAT AMERICA’S UNINSURED GO THROUGH FOR HEALTH CARE
Imagine if your only option to get health care meant sleeping overnight in your car in a parking lot for a chance to be seen at a free, pop-up clinic the next morning.
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WHEN A FREE YEARLY CLINIC IS YOUR ONLY HEALTH CARE
Sheila Fowler is 43. She has short brown hair, a soft, girlish voice and three grandchildren. What she does not have is teeth, or a way to pay for dentures.
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CREATING A VOLUNTEER CORPS FOR AMERICA
Wise County, Va., may be one of the most picturesque places in America. Nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, it is home to more than 40,000 people, who make their homes in towns with names such as Big Stone Gap, Toms Creek, Crab Orchard, and Cranes Nest.
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NPR
DELIVERING HEALTH CARE TO THE UNINSURED FOR $15 A POP
What happens when you break a leg and you live hundreds of miles from the nearest hospital?
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RURAL MEDICAL CAMP TACKLES HEALTH CARE GAPS
It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out.
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MASS MEDICAL CLINIC’S SOBERING MESSAGE
I write and talk for a living. And I’ve pontificated endlessly about exploding volcanoes, mass shootings and disastrous storms. But some of what I saw at the county fairgrounds in Wise, Va., last month left me wordless.
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PBS
CARE TO UNINSURED IN RURAL VIRGINIA
A tent at a sweltering county fairgrounds in rural Virginia, not exactly the place you’d expect to get state-of-the-art dental care.
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GAPING, PAINFUL HOLES REMAIN IN U.S. HEALTH CARE DESPITE COVERAGE GAINS
The fate of the Affordable Care Act is at stake in Tuesday’s election. More than 20 million people have gained coverage through the health insurance reform law.
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BILL MOYERS JOURNAL: REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
In his interview with Bill Moyers, Wendell Potter told the story of his trip in 2007 to visit a “medical expedition” in Wise, Virginia run by the non-profit Remote Area Medical (RAM).
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The New Yorker
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL FILM REVIEW
This deeply compassionate, quietly furious documentary by Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman highlights, in dramatic detail, the woeful lack of medical care available to residents of one Appalachian community—and, by extension, to many Americans.
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The Washington Times
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL SENDS RELIEF TO HURRICANE-HIT HAITI
Remote Area Medical founder Stan Brock has been coming to Haiti since the 1970s.
But the post-Hurricane Matthew landscape is devastation even beyond what he’s seen before in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
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MEDICAL GROUP TO HOST 2-DAYS OF FREE DENTAL, MEDICAL CARE
Thousands are expected to get medical, dental and optical treatment during a free clinic in Bradenton. More than 700 volunteers have spent a year coordinating the Remote Area Medical event which will be held at the Manatee Technical College Campus on Nov. 21 and 22.
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The Independent
STAN BROCK: THE BRITISH COWBOY TURNED MOVIE STAR WHO RESCUED MILLIONS OF UNINSURED AMERICANS
Stan Brock is nudging 80. His arms, hard as oak boughs, hint at the black belt he holds in taekwondo.
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THE BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA’S HEALTHCARE
They came in their thousands, queuing through the night to secure one of the coveted wristbands offering entry into a strange parallel universe where medical care is a free and basic right and not an expensive luxury.
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The Telegraph
‘DONALD TRUMP NEEDS TO SEE THIS’ – PATIENTS TREATED IN ANIMAL STALLS AS WASHINGTON BICKERS OVER OBAMACARE
As Republican politicians in Washington bickered over the fate of Obamacare this week hundreds of desperate people queued outside a county fairground 400 miles away in the hope of receiving basic medical treatment.
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BRITON PROVIDING FREE HEALTHCARE TO THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS
Just as the American Right is attacking British health care, Mr. Brock, originally from Preston, Lancs, has set up his mobile clinic in the city for the first time after spending almost 25 years taking volunteer doctors and dentists to care for the poor in Third World countries.
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Aljazeera
US HEALTHCARE: PROFITS BEFORE PATIENTS
When Stan Brock started Remote Area Medical (RAM) in 1985, never in his wildest dreams did he think his services would be needed in the United States, the wealthiest country in the world.
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Indie Wire
REVIEW: ‘REMOTE AREA MEDICAL’ WILL CHANGE YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE HEALTHCARE CRISIS
Almost heaven, Bristol, Tennessee. The nation’s official “Birthplace of Country Music” boasts the kind of breathtaking natural beauty that might inspire a John Denver song. But the pristine state of its mighty river and Appalachian mountain vistas stand in stark contrast to the degenerative physical state of most of its inhabitants.
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The Daily Show
THIRD WORLD HEALTH CARE – KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE EDITION
Aasif Mandvi highlights the quality of the best health care system in the world by visiting a clinic in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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