free clinic

English

Noun

free clinic (plural free clinics)

1. (US) A health care facility offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost.

   Synonym: (1960s slang) hippie clinic

   • 1989, Lily M. Hoffman, The Politics of Knowledge: Activist Movements in Medicine and Planning, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 105:

     By 1971, the free clinics began to come under strong criticism from the health Left, both because their inability to give quality day-to-day care and their function within the system as a whole (the direct cooptation of the movement by the NFCC).

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