Prison PT
Caring for the incarcerated
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ask & you shall receive
a new adventure on the inside A new offering is in the works at the prison. Ask and you shall receive. A patient of the pharmacist brought up an idea to develop a weekly class for those people, like himself, to help manage his diabetes. The pharmacist brought the idea to the Chief Medical Officer…
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surprised
shouldn’t have been, but I was This was maybe our 4th visit together. He’s seeing me for an injury sustained after being shot. In prison. Fortunately, not ours. It occurred at a higher security prison, level IV, meaning those incarcerated there need to be watched a little more closely. A gun entering prison grounds begs…
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not the norm
interesting patients Working here is like working in inpatient rehab in a state/county hospital. There are plenty of a variety of chronic pain or orthopedic injury/surgery situations. But there’s also things you might not see if you worked at Kaiser, but that you could most likely see if you worked at Highland Hospital, Zuckerburg San…
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what keeps you going
what keeps you going? 30 years. 29 years. 43 years. 26 years. When I hear how long some of these guys have been locked up, my question to them has been, “what keeps you going?” A list that I will add to as the days go by: Themes so far: hope, purpose and human connection.…
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