TEN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE DR. HAAKON CARLSON.(Daybreak)

From: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) | Date: January 7, 2001 | Copyright information

At Sauk Prairie Memorial Hospital, Dr. Haakon Carlson listened eagerly to a speaker recruiting for a medical missionary trip to Haiti. Carlson was interested in joining, and he told his wife, Janice, about it.

She presented another option: Do something like that in their own community.

Carlson, now 63, agreed. In mid-1999, he began to form -- ``from ground zero,'' he said -- Sauk Prairie Good Neighbor Clinic, a free health care facility.

Serving S...

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