[Miami Street Medicine team on their Saturday morning run]
[Team member speaking with homeless man]
[Taking blood pressure]
Inaki Bent (interview): “This is the Miami street medicine team. We are basically a nonprofit that services the medical needs of the homeless and unsheltered populations here in Miami. So we’re here this morning doing our morning run.”
[Dr. Bent talking]
[Man receiving eyeglasses]
[Blood sugar measurement]
Inaki Bent (interview): “If they have any issues, we’ll take the history, check their vitals, blood pressure, glucose, and then whatever their specific need is, we will address.”
[Homeless man walking]
[Man receiving cream]
[Woman walking]
Inaki Bent (interview): “It’s the same protocol as if you were walking into my doctor’s office. We try to allow them a little privacy. We get their chief complaint. We do a focus history and physical exam, and then we address those needs that are needed at the time.”
[Bandaging a finger]
[Homeless man]
[Homeless man getting check]
Inaki Bent (interview): “Doing this service here helps free up the log jam that we see in many of our emergency rooms. We are able to prevent readmissions.”
[Cream being applied to a foot]
Manuel Guilarte Rodrigues (interview): “The students from the college and university, they come over here to check on our blood pressure and ask if you have any medical problems [and] they’re willing to take us to the hospital and give us some assistance over there.”
[Man walking into Doctors Within Borders free urgent care clinic]
Floyd Thompson (interview): “I could always come here, and it’s always open. They never turn nobody down. Don’t care what the situation [is], the way how you look, you speak, or nothing like that. It doesn’t turn nobody away.”
[Homeless man speaking with a doctor]
Armen Henderson (interview): “There’s nothing that encourages people to be unsheltered. No one wants to be unsheltered. It’s hot outside. People’s sandals are melting into the street because it feels like greater than 100 degrees outside. No one want to live in standards like this. So by offering services like this, we’re actually trying to ease people’s suffering of being on the street. And what we find is that when people come in here, they want to get the services. they want to get off the street; they want to figure out a plan.”
[Homeless people on a street]
[Miami Street Medicine team]
[Homeless person sleeping on a sidewalk]
[Homeless man]
[Street]
This script was provided by The Associated Press.