Remote Area Medical

Remote Area Medical Volunteer Corps (RAM) is a Knoxville, Tennessee-based "non-profit, volunteer, airborne relief corps dedicated to serving mankind by providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world." [ [http://www.ramusa.org/about/mission.htm Mission ] ] RAM was founded in 1985 by adventurer Stan Brock.

RAM is publicly funded and relies on volunteer doctors, nurses, pilots and veterinarians to provide care in some of the worlds struggling communities, including parts of the United States. The founder himself is so dedicated to RAM's cause that he lives in an abandoned school that he leases from the city of Knoxville, TN, for $1 and until recently, took showers in the courtyard with a garden hose to save money for the organization. [ [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/28/60minutes/main3889496_page3.shtml Pelley, Scott. "U.S. Health Care Gets Boost From Charity", cbsnews.com.] Retrieved on April 10, 2008.]

RAM's Expeditions and Stories have inspired many people across America to take matter into their own hands. Shortly after the feature on 60 Minutes, another organization from New England jumped onto the idea. The Campaign for a Better Tomorrow under the direction of Jim M. Lackovch, Jr., has formed OPERATION: HEALTH CARE WAGON to transport New Englanders from their respective homes to RAM's facilities in Tennessee for the health care that they cannot get at home.

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* [http://www.ramusa.org/ Official website]
* [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/02/28/60minutes/main3889496.shtml US Health Care gets boost from charity] - 60 Minutes