"Picture a 31-year-old waitress, pregnant and nervous, her hand wrapped in her husband’s. He drives a truck. They lack health insurance but make too much to qualify for community health services.

Now picture a 54-year-old asthmatic laborer. He’s raising his grandson, who recently came to him with “a problem.” They need to get him tested. Or a grad student whose cough might now be bronchitis, but it was either the rent or a doctor last month, and he chose the rent.

These are the sort of people who find their way to Alexandria’s Queen Street Clinic. Anne Boston Parish sees them all..."