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Monday, March 03, 2008

USA - On 60 Minutes Tonight (March 2) Tennessee Health Care Hero Stan Brock

......................After spending a weekend providing 920 Americans with free medical care, you would think Brock would feel fulfilled. But as his two-day free clinic in Knoxville, Tenn., ended on a recent Sunday evening, he had to close his doors on 400 people. "That’s the lousy part of this job," he tells Pelley. At the Knoxville clinic, patients came from six states in the middle of the night in freezing weather to get care. The 276 volunteers providing it came from 11 states.

Every year, Brock’s organization helps thousands of Americans who have no health insurance and others who are underinsured. "It’s nice to…know that you’ve helped a bunch of people, but the reality is we can’t do everybody," says Brock.

Pelley and 60 Minutes cameras covered the Knoxville "expedition," where RAM volunteers extracted 1,066 teeth, did 567 fillings, performed 94 mammograms and made 500 pairs of glasses, in addition to almost 300 general medical exams..............

Fluoridation is state-mandated in Tennessee: NYSCOF

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