Dr. Susan Partovi makes her rounds on skid row in Downtown Los Angeles, caring for homeless patients and helping them with their medications. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Partovi makes her rounds along 5th Street. She has worked in homeless medicine for 12 years. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Partovi hands a referal slip to homeless patient Luis Jimenez,59. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Homeless patient Tracy Ragsdale,50, left, talks to Partovi. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Partovi takes down the medical history of a patient on skid row. For five years, she spent every Saturday in a bare-bones Tijuana clinic treating conditions that included leprosy. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Dr. James Cunningham and Dr. Susan Partovi, right, check on homeless resident Von Hall at his skid row encampment. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Partovi, right, talks to homeless resident Von Hall. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Doctors James Cunningham and Susan Partovi walk into a clinic on skid row to confer with another doctor about one of their homeless patients. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
