Since selling her private practice eight years ago, Dr. Gulshan Harjee has spent most of her professional career invested in the Clarkston Community Health Center, a charity clinic she co-founded that serves a steady flow of immigrant patients.
The internal medicine physician came to the United States after fleeing three different countries in her childhood and adolescent years — experiences that moved her to help others in trying circumstances. As the pro bono medical director of the Clarkston charitable clinic, Harjee sees patients in a town where about half the residents are foreign-born and nearly 1 in 5 are uninsured.
“I left a thriving practice to do this because I was paying it forward,” she said…