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By s she prepared to graduate from at Dayton’s Samaritan Homeless Clinic,
Robin UK’s medical school in 1998, Dori where she’s practiced since August 2001.
ranger Thompson thought she’d do "I just think that everybody has to find
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warm, along the coast. Someplace with sand able. And I feel comfortable here. I love my
and waves, like Savannah or Virginia Beach. patients. I love my staff. I love the benefits of
After that, she thought she’d end up working here. And that’s why I’m here."
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Instead,Thompson, now 33, finds herself the Samaritan Homeless Clinic, she some-
practicing in downtown Dayton, Ohio, at a times gets a trite. “Oh, that’s so sweet" re-
homeless clinic. sponse — a look that assumes her choice
It may not be quite what Thompson, who stems from charity or activism.
also earned her bachelor’s degree in biology It’s a reaction that seems to irk the good-
at UK in 1993, had envisioned for herself. natured, unassuming doctor just a little.
But she feels it`s where she’s meant to be. She`s quick to point out that for one thing.
“I love it here," Thompson says of her job she is paid well -—"I didn’t go to school for l l
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