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Nathanael Desire

Medical house calls open a window on plight of the elderly on the North Fork

by Dec 15, 2015
“If you spent a day with me, you would go home, put your head down on your kitchen table and cry,” says Greenport physician assistant Steven Templeton, founder of Medical House Calls of the North Fork. Many elderly live in "absolutely terrible" conditions, alone and lonely, suffering from depression and anxiety, he says.
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