To the Editor: The proposal to link volunteer physicians of good will with medically needy children through an "adopt-a-school" program is painfully naive (letter, Sept. 30).

After he retired from his practice in 1989, he worked as a volunteer physician at Indian reservations in Montana, South Dakota and Iowa.

In the spring of 2006, they helped staff the U.S. Navy hospital ship, known as the Mercy, with volunteer physicians and nurses to South Asia.

New York City schoolchildren deserve better than sporadic care by volunteer physicians.

This non profit corporation was established in 2005 by a concerned group of volunteer physicians, patients, lawyers, lawmakers and internet professionals.

The clinic has two full-time staff doctors, a physician assistant, a nurse practitioner and clinical nurse, and over 50 volunteer physicians, nurses and medical administrators.

After medical school, he became a volunteer physician at the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic during the 1960s.

He also attended Woodstock as a volunteer physician.

We had a dozen volunteer physicians along.

A group of volunteer women led the effort to equip and staff the facility, raising money for operations and recruiting volunteer physicians.