08 DECEMBER 2010 - PHOENIX, AZ:  MARY VON DWINGELO, a volunteer nurse with Mission of Mercy, takes the blood pressure of patient MARIA RUBIO at a Mission of Mercy mobile clinic in Phoenix, AZ, Wednesday, Dec. 8. Mission of Mercy has been providing free medical help for people in the Phoenix area since 1997. In the last two years, as the Arizona economy continued its recessionary slide, patient load at the clinics has more than doubled. Mission of Mercy, which relies on voluntary medical help and financial donations, recently acquired another mobile clinic so they could expand their reach into suburban areas they previously had not served. Mission of Mercy has provided free medical help to more than 43,000 patients in the Phoenix area since 1997.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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