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January 1, 2021
The founder of a cancer clinic told some 200 patients this holiday he would not be collecting on some $650,000 in medical debt from them.
Arkansas Online reports Dr. Omar Atiq informed his patients in a holiday greeting card.
Atiq closed the Arkansas Cancer Institute in Pine Bluff earlier this year due to staff shortages. He founded the clinic in 1991.
“We thought there was not a better time to do this than during a pandemic that has decimated homes, people’s lives and businesses and all sorts of stuff,” the Pakistani American doctor said to Arkansas Online. “We just thought we could do it, and we wanted to, so we went ahead and did it.”
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Dr. Omar Atiq notified his patients just in time for Christmas.
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Oncologist forgives $650,000 in medical debt for his patients
Dr. Omar Atiq hopes his 200 patients enter the new year with their lives “a little bit easier.”Courtesy Omar Atiq
Around 200 people are starting 2021 off without any medical debt thanks to the kindness of an oncology doctor who erased $650,000 of his patients debt.
Dr. Omar Atiq, a medical oncologist for nearly 40 years, closed his cancer clinic in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in March after nearly three decades in business.