<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-29/magazine/spring-2020/healing-marginalized-pandemic.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Healing the Marginalized in a Pandemic</title><excerpt>Physician assistant Kerry McGuigan Gillette ’05 serves on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic, running Mosaic Medical’s Mobile Community Clinic and treating the homeless and at-risk youth in Central Oregon. Initially, clinic leaders wanted to shut down the specially outfitted RV, fearing for the safety of the medical team. “While the rest of our community might have access to telemedicine appointments, the majority of my homeless patients do not,” Kerry says. “I was strongly opposed to pulling back completely, as it would effectively cut off my patients from access to primary care during a pandemic. That was unacceptable to me.”</excerpt><author/><image>
            
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