Free Medical Clinic

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Free Medical Clinic

• Omar Chowdhry, MSIII
• Tariq Khalil, MD
• Ahsan Basha, MD

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Introduction

• Cultural Cup Food Bank
• Nonprofit organization
• Caters to needs of all regardless of background
• Dedicated towards lower income individuals
• Provides food, essentials, services

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Introduction contd

• Saturday Free Clinic
• Provide medical coverage to uninsured
• Neglected population
• Free of charge
• Based on the donation of supplies and services

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Setup

• Open every Saturday, 10am 2pm
• Physician volunteers
• Waiting room
• Triage area (weight, vitals, Accu-Check)
• Two patient rooms

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Patient visit

• Presents to physician with complaint
• History Physical
• Physician assessment
• Advice, Supportive Tx, and Rx

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Patient Management

• Rx are written for 4 generics
• Ordered labs are reasonably priced at local
  Bashas market
• Patient asked to follow-up
• Each patient has own file on record

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Current Barriers

• Lack of volunteering physicians
• Specialties (e.g. Peds, OB/GYN)
• Language (e.g. Spanish)
• Need of medical supplies/samples
• Lack of advertising

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Future

• Help for the helpless
• Improved services to uninsured
• Increased physician participation
• Standardization of care
• Healthier patients
• Tremendous amount of good deeds