Hundreds of would-be volunteers filed into the Los Angeles Sports Arena early Thursday morning for the first day of a massive clinic that will offer free care by doctors, dentists, optometrists and other volunteers.
The clinic, organized by L.A.-based CareNow, will run through Sunday and expects to treat roughly 5,000 patients.
One of those patients, Arsie Taylor, 65, said she has Medi-Cal but does not have dental insurance and had not been to a dentist in about three years.
"It's a good opportunity for people who don't have insurance," she said.
Taylor sat down at a registration table, and a nurse asked her when she had last had a mammogram.
"I don't know," she replied. "I want to get a mammogram too."
Nearby, a nursing student took Paul Siebert's blood pressure -- 145 over 100.
"That's high," he said. "I'm on medication for it."
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