Antigone

1971 marked Dr. Franciscus’s last year practicing plastic surgery. It was obvious that he was going through a major change in life. I feel a lot of that change in him happened after he met Imelda. He became a street doctor after that in 1972. He was working in a place called the Grosssbart Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA. This was a huge change for him. He was dealing with patients that had suffered gun shot wounds, malnutrition, and untreated sores. This was a very poor area in Pittsburgh. In an excerpt from an interview with his daughter she stated, “he was one of the only the only white persons there in the heart of the Pittsburgh ghetto.” He stayed at this place until 1980. He then decided to help more people that were in much need of medical assistance. He went to the Lakota Reservation in North Dakota. He worked with Native Americans that had alcohol and drug abuse problems. He also set up a literacy