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Patients wait almost 3 weeks for an appointment at MCC Medical Clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland, August 23, 2009. The patient list has grown 50% in the last year. (Robert Giroux/MCT)
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Mission of Mercy holds their open clinic at the Frederick Church of the Brethren where doctors, nurses and volunteers saw to dental and general health patients in this mobile clinic RV on August 24, 2009 in Frederick, Maryland. (Jamie Rose/MCT)
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Mission of Mercy holds their open clinic at the Frederick Church of the Brethren where doctors, nurses and volunteers saw to dental and general health patients on August 24, 2009 in Frederick, Maryland. Volunteer translator Maria Teresa D'Orazio and Dick Baldwin examine the client files while preparing for the day's patients. (Jamie Rose/MCT)
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Dr. Asif Qadri urges Shafi Jaafari to quit smoking at the MCC Medical Clinic on August 23, 2009 in Silver Spring, Maryland. Jaafari, a father of 4, supports his family on the $7 an hour he makes at a gas station. (Robert Giroux/MCT)
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While Mission of Mercy's Dr. Michael Sullivan sees patients in a small back room of their mobile RV, Dr. Larry Romane finishes paperwork in the front during an open clinic at the Frederick Church of the Brethren on August 24, 2009 in Frederick, Maryland. (Jamie Rose/MCT)
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A patient who asked to be identified only as David had two teeth extracted by Dr. John Jayman (left) and dental assistant Ivan Pare (right) after arriving at the Mission of Mercy clinic at 2:30 a.m. to get in line at the Frederick Church of the Brethren in Frederick, Maryland, August 24, 2009. (Jamie Rose/MCT)
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Dr. Asif Qadri, founder of the MCC Medical Center pauses between patients at the free clinic on August 23, 2009 in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Robert Giroux/MCT)
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Durenez Abro discusses her options with Dr. Quadri at MCC Medical Clinic on August 23, 2009 in Silver Spring, Maryland. She needs a $5,000 procedure that Qadri hopes he can get discounted for her. (Robert Giroux/MCT)
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Women wait to be seen at MCC Medical Clinic on August 23, 2009 in Silver Spring, Maryland. The clinic provides free healthcare to the uninsured. (Robert Giroux/MCT)
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