Ali Block
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Oct 2023
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So anywhere else that I've practiced before, if you have a patient who is high risk in some way, or not even that high risk, just a tiny bit high risk, or has some sort of social complication where maybe they can't do it today, or we can't do it today, you know, if anything is off in the littlest bit, it's just kind of not a big deal.
You refer them to the academic medical center, you refer them to the local.
And so that happens all the time, right?
You're you the patients come in at the beginning of the day, you're doing ultrasounds, you're doing your medical screening, things come up.
And I would say, in my California practice or here, a couple patients every day.
We say, We're not going to do this procedure today.
We'll set you up at this other institution.
And so when I got to Kansas,
I sort of asked that.
You know, I would see a patient and they would be a little high risk.
And I was like, so naive, you know, and I would sort of say,
Oh well, yeah.
So what do we do with this patient?
Where are we gonna send them?
And the staff would sort of laugh at me and be like, This is where we treat them.
Um, there is nowhere else for them to go.
So if we don't do it here, if we don't do it today, they're not getting their procedure.
And that just creates a lot of psychological stress and pressure on the staff because
you really feel for that patient, you really want to get it done.
At the same time, of course, you never want to do anything unsafe that's going to jeopardize the health of that patient or frankly jeopardize the viability of the clinic as a whole.
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