The author worked at Common Ground Health Clinic in the summer and fall of 2006 as a participant observer from Harvard University doing social science research and as an EMT conducting intakes. She has gone on to get her MD at the University of California, San Francisco. This is an excerpt from her award-winning thesis at Harvard, slightly edited to correct inaccuracies.
4 The Clinic's Model as a discursive intervention in biomedicine and the production of health inequities 13