SAN DIEGO — "Anybody home?" physician assistant Teagan Flint asks outside a tent on F Street in downtown San Diego.
She was hoping to find a patient she had been working with, but there was no answer at the tent. She would learn later he had been hospitalized.
Flint is part of a novel five-person street medicine team called Healthcare in Action, a nonprofit that includes physician assistants and social workers who have worked the streets of San Diego since July to provide on-the-spot and, more important, long-term health care to homeless people at no cost to the patients.
