While 92-year-old Dr. Tom Wallace has already been retired for years, you can still find him volunteering his time in Oakland by providing uninsured and low-income patients with free health care clinics daily.
Dr. Tom Wallace, 92, spends every day helping patients at a free clinic in Oakland.The retired neurologist said he started volunteering at the Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California about eight years ago. Four years in, he decided to start going every day, pulling daily eight-hour shifts.Dr. Wallace stepped in as interim medical director a couple of months ago and he's receiving a small stipend.
During the pandemic, the Oakland resident still went into the clinic and helped patients through telemedicine appointments, for over a year.He said his wife passed away about nine years ago. "These patients of ours, there's so much love exchanged," Dr. Wallace said. "There's so much love exchanged. They need our help. We're able to do it. And we see anybody who needs help.. And it doesn't matter about race or creed or religion. We just want to take care of these patients. And they know it and they respond to that and it's very gratifying."
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