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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/health/chi-0304150279apr15,1,4550573.story
Jon Anderson, Chicago Tribune

The health clinic, in a predominantly Arab neighborhood on the Southwest 
Side, is free. It is open Sundays. The doctors, all Muslim, are volunteers. 
No one, of any background, is turned away.

"It's pretty simple, really," one doctor explained. "All of us went into 
medicine hoping to help people."

Yet, life being what it is, especially these days, nothing is ever that 
simple, he quickly added. Idealism can be sidetracked by the delivery 
structure of modern American medicine. Doctors can develop what they call 
"clinical lives," carefully kept schedules that keep them away from 
patients who lack health insurance.

But the work of the Inner City Muslim Action Network's Health Clinic 
Initiative, as the storefront operation at 6248 S. Spaulding Ave. is known, 
does depend on a couple of maxims known to most of the world's peoples.

For the past year, Ahsan Arozullah has spent many of his weekends with a 
troupe of medical volunteers, drawn from Provident Hospital, 
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and Northwestern University.

"We're not only here for the Arab community. We are diverse. We have 
African-American and Hispanic patients," said clinic administrator Sharene 
Fakhran. "We're trying to provide something for everyone in the area."