1,000 say ‘ah’ at LR free clinic

Seven of the uninsured throng sent on to emergency rooms

People line up for the free medical clinic outside the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock. More than 1,000 doctors and volunteers participated in the event.

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More than 1,000 uninsured Arkansans with a broad range of medical ailments, including at least seven who required immediate emergency care, sought care Saturday at a free clinic at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.

Patients with heart failure and chest pain were among those rushed to emergency rooms.

“One with heart failure had just been in the hospital three weeks ago,” said Dr. Kimberly Garner, the clinic’s medical director and medical director of geriatric evaluation and management at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System.

“It was recommended he see a cardiologist, but he doesn’t have health insurance so he wasn’t able to go in for a follow-up.”

Other patients were treated for maladies that ranged ...

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This article was published November 22, 2009 at 5:46 a.m.

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