Meanings
plural free clinics
- USA health care facility offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost.
By 1971, the free clinics began to come under strong criticism from the health Left, both because their inability to give quality day-to-day care and their function within the system as a whole (the direct cooptation of the movement by the NFCC).
1989, Lily M. Hoffman, The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 105Synonyms: hippie clinic
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA health care facility offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost.
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