Word: benjamin
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...think it's wonderful, after Katrina destroyed so many people's homes and their lives, this lady went around helping people at their homes and making house calls." -Alice Gallops, a patient of Benjamin's (Associated Press, July...
...didn't have anyone before her. We were just a bunch of shrimp pickers that no one cared about." -Bill Menton, a retired state senator who remained under Dr. Benjamin's care despite being financially able to travel anywhere for treatment (New York Times, April...
...Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters severely damaged Benjamin's clinic in 2005. Just before it was scheduled to reopen in 2006, the clinic was destroyed by fire. Despite the setbacks, she continued to treat patients at their homes and in area hospitals...
...Last year Benjamin was one of 25 recipients of the MacArthur Foundation's "Genius" grant, which rewards people who have demonstrated "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits" and provides to each fellow $100,000 a year for five years to use as they...
...clinic in 1998, she made house calls to all her patients while it was rebuilt. When Hurricane Katrina destroyed it again and left most of her town homeless, she mortgaged her house and maxed out her credit cards to rebuild that clinic for a second time." -President Obama describing Benjamin's dedication to her community (White House transcript, July...