The Figueroa street clinic Figueroa street, Santa Barbara

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At the end of 1985, the nurse Mary DuVall shares her working time between the Capwell mansion (with C.C. Capwell in the coma), and the Figueroa clinic. She assures alone the opening and the closure, the reception and all the care in this health center situated in an underprivileged district of Santa Barbara, where the patients have not the necessary money to be treated at the paying public hospital.

We enter the clinic by a double door. The reception room, with clear white and green color walls, is constituted by a big counter behind which are classified the files. We find also a standard, as well as posters of prevention in English and in Spanish (a big part of the population of the district being Hispanic).

From the reception, we reach the second room of the clinic, the treatment room. Mary treats there the patients, who appear throughout the day without appointment. We find a bed, racks, and a small display cabinet inside which Mary tidies up medicines under key.

The Figueroa clinic is also the place of violence, as during Angel Ramirez's hostage-taking in October 1985. If Mason Capwell occasionally comes to give assistance to Mary, it is Dr. Mark McCormick who will be, in a more regular way, her precious help to assure the good holding of the clinic.