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Speaker 1: Nurse practitioner Melissa Carter is taking her skills and expertise

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Speaker 1: in pediatrics on the road.

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Speaker 2: A comfortable, fun doctor's office on wheels.

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Speaker 1: She's worked in family medicine and pediatrics for thirteen years,

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Speaker 1: ten of those at Boston Children's Hospital. Now she practices

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Speaker 1: out of the two U Pediatrics mobile medical unit, rolling

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Speaker 1: up to people's homes from ten am to ten pm.

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Speaker 3: Parents are coming home after work and then their little

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Speaker 3: one is sick. You don't want to bring them to

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Speaker 3: the emergency room, of course, or to urgent care.

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Speaker 2: They might be closing.

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Speaker 4: I've also seen quite a few parents or caregivers that

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Speaker 4: have other children at home and it's just impossible to

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Speaker 4: get all of the children out.

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Speaker 2: Of the house.

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Speaker 1: Melissa serves southern New Hampshire and northeast Massachusetts. She's not

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Speaker 1: taking insurance now that may change, but most calls run

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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty dollars in Salem, New Hampshire. Sherry

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Speaker 1: Small WBC, Boston's news radio