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CVIM volunteers, many of whom are retired doctors, work with patients who
are uninsured and live below the poverty line.

“They kind of fall through a gap in
our health care system,” Rusenko said.

While CVIM works with underserved
populations, the nature of the clinic
— devoid of insurance policies and
bureaucracies — means that doctors
get to practice medicine in the ideal-
ized way they often imagined at the
beginning of their careers.

“When you remove the money from
the equation, the payment and all that
stuff , it just removes a whole layer of
stressful interactions that you have,”
said Dr. Glenn Paskow, a CVIM volun-
teer from Kesher Israel who had a
40-year dental practice in Kennett
Square. “You can just do your best to
work and treat people the best.”
“It allows me to do what I’m good at,”
he added.

Paskow believes that the highest
level of mitzvot is helping an individual
help themselves. Through his volun-
teer work at CVIM for the past years,
he feels he’s been able to do that.

“If they’re in pain … it’s hard for
them to be self-suffi cient, to function,”
Paskow said of patients.

Kesher Israel is not the only faith-
based group with members who
volunteer at CVIM. But in the larger
community, the synagogue tries to
remain active in doing mitzvot, said Dr.

Anna Schetman, a pediatrician of 33
years who recently started volunteer-
ing at CVIM.

Kesher Israel’s Tikkun Olam
Committee helps organize opportuni-
ties to cook meals for those living in
shelters and deliver challah, electric
candles and grape juice to Jewish
patients at Chester County Hospital on
Shabbat, among other opportunities.

Spending a day or so a week volun-
teering at CVIM is just another way for
Kesher Israel congregants to complete
a mitzvah.

“Volunteerism is a natural extension
of Judaism in general,” Schetman said.

“Many of us who become physicians
are interested in helping the commu-
nity, giving back to the community,
so I think that and that’s a big part of
Jewish values.” ■
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