Interview with Steven J. Levin, MD.

Abstract

Steven J. Levin, MD, is the only full-time physician at St. John's Health Center in New Brunswick. The Center provides primary medical services to 3,000 uninsured people and has a waiting list of almost 600 more. Levin's workdays are consumed by procuring free medications, treating patients who are poor and possibly homeless, arranging specialty consults, seeking out grants and equipment donations, and training medical students. The family physician also helped create a statefunded sexually transmitted diseases clinic, a home safety program for inner-city children, a Latino diabetes support group, and a computer database to track indigent patients in need of immunizations and other followup services. St. John's is run under an arrangement with Catholic Charities, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, and St. Peter's Medical Center.