he line began forming, almost inconceivably, at 11 Wednesday morning, 18 hours before doors would open.
By 9 p.m., 40 people were waiting. By midnight, the queue wrapped all the way around Fisher Pavilion, the Seattle Center banquet hall.
Hundreds of people waited, through the gloom of night and the sleepy dawn, not for concert tickets or a hot new restaurant, but for an X-ray, a root canal, a new pair of glasses; for someone to look at a rash, an aching hip, a sore back.
For four days each year, the Seattle/King County Clinic occupies a corner of Seattle Center, offering free medical, dental and vision care to anyone willing to show up and wait, first come, first served. On Thursday morning, the clinic’s opening day, tickets for dental care ran out within 10 minutes of the 5:30 opening. Vision tickets were gone in a couple of hours. Medical soon after.
Source: Seattle clinic offers free health care for thousands /Seattle Times