Civic Ventures :: Innovations Documentary Series

Samaritan House: The Art of Medicine

Samaritan House is the story of a free medical clinic and one social entrepreneur, "retired" physician and clinic co-founder Bill Schwartz. Together, Schwartz and his colleagues are creating a medical miracle in a small California city that offers a glimpse of how we might make the most of the aging society.

Samaritan House: Doctor examining patient. Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

Samaritan House physician and patient.
Photo credit and copyright by Alex Harris.

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Samaritan House

401 North Humboldt
San Mateo, CA 94401
(650) 347-3648
www.samaritanhouse.com

Innovations

Photographs by Alex Harris
Essay by Rob Gurwitt
Audio Production by Elana Hadler
Introduction by Marc Freedman

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What a waste

Dorothea Glass retired as chair of a medical school department and moved to the ocean. She approached a local hospital with the offer to put her decades of experience as a physician and medical executive to work – for free. The hosptial offered her a volunteer job filling water pitchters.

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