Street-Smart Medicine
A few weeks after a 600-person army of volunteers scoured Santa Barbara County to tally the homeless population and assess their needs, a lecture hall packed with UCSB students heard from two out-of-town doctors about the importance of “street medicine” in providing care to the indigent.
A few weeks after a 600-person army of volunteers scoured Santa Barbara County to tally the homeless population and assess their needs, a lecture hall packed with UCSB students heard from two out-of-town doctors about the importance of “street medicine” in providing care to the indigent. The guest lectures were given as part of a seminar called “Underserved Medicine,” put on by Doctors Without Walls-Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW–SBSM), an organization that aims to help area homeless with their medical matters; the group’s medical director, Dr. Jason Prystowsky, leads the class.
