From: Mission and State
Doctors Without Walls takes healthcare to the streets.
Street medicine: Dr. Jason Prystowsky offers
free medical care to the homeless as the medical director of Doctors
Without Walls . (Danielle Angel)
Dr. Jason Prystowsky is celebrating his 39th birthday in the glow of a
winter’s full moon rising over the Santa Barbara pier and the
refreshing spritz of a much-needed drizzle. In a scene reminiscent of a
François Truffaut film, the pale blues and grays of dwindling daylight
cast a misty shadow on the harbor while the masts of neatly parked
sailboats sway in the background.
The scene may have all the trappings of a romantic birthday date, but Pystowksy is actually ringing in his last year of not being in his 40s at work. His office is a row of card tables set up near the trees in Pershing Park, where a couple dozen volunteers—doctors, mental-health workers, clinicians and med students—are decamped.
Prystowsky, the medical director of Doctors Without Walls, approaches them in a worn, black leather jacket, motorcycle helmet in hand. This is a no-frills, no-prescription-pad, no-examination-table, come-as-you-are, leave-healthier type of practice. MORE
The scene may have all the trappings of a romantic birthday date, but Pystowksy is actually ringing in his last year of not being in his 40s at work. His office is a row of card tables set up near the trees in Pershing Park, where a couple dozen volunteers—doctors, mental-health workers, clinicians and med students—are decamped.
Prystowsky, the medical director of Doctors Without Walls, approaches them in a worn, black leather jacket, motorcycle helmet in hand. This is a no-frills, no-prescription-pad, no-examination-table, come-as-you-are, leave-healthier type of practice. MORE
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