'To make a difference'. The Lincoln Collective

The Lincoln Collective was born in 1970 as a grassroots effort of health and community workers to start the kind of nonhierarchical community-oriented program described in this article. The idea of two residents who were already at Lincoln Hospital, the notion was given official approval because of the influx of young, American-trained physicians and nurses it would bring. But, as the experiment was advertised by word of mouth to members of the Student Health Organization, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and other health workers involved in antiwar activities, the hospital, administration got more than it bargained for.