North Shore-Lij's Mobile Clinic Brings Health Care to Those in Need

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There's no doubt in Elia Guevara's mind: Dr. Alec Thundercloud saved her infant daughter's life.

Guevara, a 20-year-old mother of three, recalls clearly the day she took little Johanna to see Dr. Thundercloud in his mobile health clinic, the day the good doctor quickly diagnosed a dangerous bronchial infection and insisted the young mother rush the child to an emergency room. The emergency room doctor, according to Guevara, told her the child could have died if she wasn't given prompt treatment.

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North Shore-Lij's Mobile Clinic Brings Health Care to Those in Need

The doctor takes good care of my child, said Guevara, who was born in El Salvador, illegally crossed a river into the United States at age 12 and later obtained legal status. If I didn't come here - maybe she would have died.

Thundercloud has a reputation among his patients - mostly immigrants, some in this country legally, some ille...

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