'Rock 'N' Roll' Clinic Founder Resigns; Doctor Protests New Ceo's Layoffs
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › March 22, 2006
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Dr. David Smith founded the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic during the summer of love. It was 1967, he was 28 and he practiced his own brand of rock 'n' roll medicine - treating drug overdoses, sexually transmitted diseases and the common cold.
In the early years, it stayed afloat with money from musicians such as George Harrison and concert promoters such as Bill Graham. Haight Ashbury Free Clinics Inc. now serves about 65,000 patients a year at several locations around the Bay Area and is used as a model for free clinics across the country.See the full content of this document
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'Rock 'N' Roll' Clinic Founder Resigns; Doctor Protests New Ceo's Layoffs
But Smith walked away from his life's work last month because of a philosophical clash with the clinic's new CEO, John Eckstrom, a former Fortune 500 executive.
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