What the Marin Community Clinics do

I intern at the Marin Community Clinics. There are three facitities around Marin, one in Novato, one in San Rafael, and the one that I work at in Greenbrae. These clinics offer low cost medical help to low-income patients around Marin county. Their goal is to provide the best service they can to as many patients as they can. The clinics offer help to many people everyday, and often have more clients than they can support, which is why having volunteers is so important to them. They help people with things as small as birth control distrubution, and TB shots, to things as big as baby delivery and surgery. The doctors and nurses that work there do not get paid as much as they would if they were working for a big name hospital, or for a facility that relied on insurance to pay them, but they work at these clinics becasue they believe that everyone is entitled to having good quality of life, and good health. The majority of the patients that come into the clinic do not have insurance, and can only pay a very small co-pay, but they are always greateful to the doctors and nurses for helping them. Another one of their goals is to promote education about good health to their patients. Whenever a patient comes in, the nurses and medical assistants always ask them a lot of questions to really get to know their patient before they meet with the doctor. Once the doctor has seen them, the medical assistants make sure that the patient knows exactly how to deal with the medical issue they have, and gives them advice about how they could live healthier. I think that my internship is very rewarding because of all of their goals of how to better the communities they serve.

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