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Weathering the storm

Rhode Island set a record this week—37 inches of snow—according to the TF Green Airport. That’s 7 more inches than the blizzard of 1978. I wasn’t living here then, but I remember a winter storm in Ohio that year which dumped enough snow that I could cross country ski over the fence tops.

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School-Based Clinics in 2021

I first provided care in school-based clinics in the 1990s. My most memorable crisis was an early morning page from the clinic nurse who had a flare for the dramatic. We didn't have cell phones back then, so I found the coins to call her from a pay phone at the cafe where I was having breakfast with a colleague.
"I think I have a student in labor. Can you get in here fast?" Stacy's voice…

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