Jim Withers

Founder, Operation Safety Net

Bringing healthcare directly to the homeless, as Dr. Jim Withers describes in this Gel Health talk, is difficult but rewarding. As a founder of the global street medicine movement, and the subject of the documentary "One Bridge to the Next," Dr. Withers has accomplished a great deal - both in his home city of Pittsburgh with Operation Safety Net and throughout the world in dozens of cities now maintaining street medicine practices.

See also:

• Operation Safety Net, Dr. Withers' project in Pittsburgh

• streetmedicine.org, the initiative supporting street medicine practices globally

• One Bridge to the Next, the documentary about Dr. Withers' work.

• NPR interview

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