Tenderloin Health

I have spent the past 6 months working for Tom Waddell Health Center--a homeless health care provider in San Francisco's Tenderloin. What strikes me the most are the people I have worked with--their level of compassion and dedication--and their ability to meet people where they are at in their lives.

When I took this job, one of the most challenging things for me to understand was the idea that health, suffering, rehabilitation..etc. are all relative and fluid states of being. 

What we are doing at Tenderloin Health, one of Tom Waddell's community clinics that sees many of our sickest homeless patients, is alleviating suffering one day at a time; suffering that for many, if not all of our patients, has persisted for years, and will never be eliminated in any absolute sense.