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Hope's Helpers

Fund-raisers focus on new Ypsi clinic.

by Eve Silberman

posted 6/7/2010

St. Joe oncologist Phillip Stella was volunteering at Ypsilanti's Hope Clinic when he saw a patient with a nagging cough--which turned out to be treatable early stage lung cancer. Without the clinic, which provides primary care for the uninsured, "that patient might not have survived," Stella says.

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