Someone to CARE By Sara VanderClute
Above | Dr. Megan Belprez is one of many Fayetteville and Fort Bragg physicians
who spend their off-hours volunteering at the CARE Clinic downtown.
Top | Pharmacists like Scott Donaghy,
right, are an important part of the volunteer team, too. Donaghy talks to Campbell University student Hunter Hobgood.
their lives to healing and helping their patients. Many of those physicians extend that commitment beyond their individual practices. The CARE Clinic, one of the best-
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known and respected non-profit agencies in Cumberland County, is dependent on the donated volunteer services of more than 70 physicians, dentists and other medical professionals without whom the clinic would cease to exist. The CARE Clinic provides medical and dental care to the uninsured and underinsured population in Fayetteville.
ayetteville is fortunate to have a thriving medical community, with many specialties represented among the hundreds of physicians who devote
What inspires a physician to go
above and beyond the demands of a professional practice – or to limit the leisure of a well-earned retirement – and donate hours of time and energy for the benefit of those among us who cannot get medical care otherwise? Dr. Richard Shereff, a local
dermatologist who volunteers at the CARE Clinic, has no difficulty answering that question. “I think you can take the measure
of a community by how well they take care of their own,” he says. “I know Fayetteville is a caring community, and the CARE Clinic is just a wonderful organization to be a part of – everyone works, everyone contributes to taking care of the patients.” Dr. Shereff, who is the CARE Clinic Volunteer of the Year this year, also
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