There is a doctor in Pittsburgh that still makes house calls, to a certain extent. For more than 20 years Dr. Jim Withers’s house calls have brought healthcare to the homeless. What began as a nightly ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Most every day for the past thirty years, Dr. Jim Withers has gone out to the streets and the encampments and given medical treatment to those experiencing homelessness in ...

Read and listen to a story about Dr. Jim Withers as part of a series honoring the individuals who make a difference in people’s lives: 90.5 WESA Celebrates People Making a Difference. For more than 20 ...

Dr. Withers began providing medical care to Pittsburgh’s unsheltered homeless population in 1992. Initially dressing as a homeless person, “Dr. Jim” began making nighttime street rounds in the alleys ...

In May 1992, Withers teamed up with outreach worker Mike Sallows, a one-time denizen of the streets, to take healthcare delivery to the curbsides, back alleys, and bridge bottoms where many homeless ...

Jim Withers, MD, who founded Operation Safety Net in 1992, says his early years of practicing street medicine in Pittsburgh were a product of his imagination. "I made it up, and I had a philosophy ...

One summer evening, on his regular rounds through the streets of Syracuse, NY, David Lehmann, MD, PharmD, came across an unsheltered man in dirty clothes who seemed to be making his bed each night on ...