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The responsibility of communicating with dental patients can be very humbling. As a volunteer at the New River Valley Free Clinic’s Dental Program, I speak with people who often have no health insurance and insufficient income to pay for dental services. Many prospective patients are anxious and in pain. My job is to gather their personal information, get a description of their problem, and schedule them for an appointment. One aspect of my position …

…behind he was, he always made the time to speak with the patients. He asked about the family or the job or whatever subject seemed to connect him with the person in the chair. His job not only required the years of training and studies necessary to be a dentist, but Dr. Vaughan also personified integrity and a willingness to know his patients. Quite simply, that is the kind of dentist I hope to be.