{"id":4866,"date":"2016-01-08T14:31:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T14:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/PHOTOS%20BY%20JOEL%20SPRINGStudent-run%20clinic%20brings%20health%20care%20to%20those%20fleeing%20violence%20and%20persecution[caption%20id=attachment_5481%20align=alignright"},"modified":"2018-01-22T19:12:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:12:56","slug":"the-lost-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/the-lost-population\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;lost&#8217; population"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">PHOTOS BY JOEL SPRING<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Student-run clinic brings health care to those fleeing violence and persecution<\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_5481\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5481\" class=\"wp-image-5481\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-fadi1.jpg\" alt=\"Second-year medical student Fadi Al-Asadi examines Rezijebad Fardzadeh, a native of Iran.\" width=\"500\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-fadi1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-fadi1-114x150.jpg 114w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-fadi1-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Second-year medical student Fadi Al-Asadi examines Rezijebad Fardzadeh, a native of Iran.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"drop-caps\">I<\/span>n the triage area, second-year medical student Fadi Al-Asadi, who was born and raised in Iraq and whose first language is Arabic, bends down to try and wake a sleeping toddler in a stroller. \u201cBon jour,\u201d Al-Asadi says jovially to the French-speaking child from Cameroon in West Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Across the way, nursing student Christina Potts is busy processing new patients. There\u2019s a three-generation family from Burma, followed by a couple and their children from Bhutan. Next up is an elderly, white-bearded man from Iran wearing a woven, white prayer cap. The \u201cwaiting area\u201d\u2014chairs lined up and down the hallways\u2014is crowded with refugees, each with a personal story of fleeing violence, persecution and war. The place is teeming with sound and color, the cadences and rhythms of world languages and bright ethnic dress from Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p>And they keep coming through the doors of the makeshift clinic at St. Francis Episcopal Church on Bluemel Road, near the South Texas Medical Center. Sniffling babies, stooped men and stoic women, all seeking health care.<\/p>\n<p>This is a San Antonio health clinic like no other. It is the Health Science Center\u2019s student-run, free San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic, a blessing for refugees and a teaching tool without parallel for the students who volunteer.<\/p>\n<p>Back in triage, Al-Asadi, who was a teenager in Baghdad when the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, is moving from patient to patient, listening, learning, treating. He spent a year in Syria as a refugee himself before coming to the States in 2008, and so has \u201ca personal connection\u201d to the patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompassion is about 90 percent of the whole deal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-full-width section-dark\" style=\"background-color:#000000; min-height:150px;\" id=\"section-1\"><div class=\"section-boxed\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Governments create borders. Diseases do not follow those borders. If we\u2019re not educating our students in global health, we\u2019re doing a great disservice.\u201d<\/strong> <\/span><br \/>\n\u2014Andrew Muck, M.D., medical director for the Refugee Health Clinic<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>A helping hand<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Refugee Health Clinic, which operates weekly, began in 2011, building on a <a href=\"https:\/\/nursing.uthscsa.edu\">School of Nursing<\/a> effort. It is one of five student-run clinics that operate through the <a href=\"https:\/\/makelivesbetter.uthscsa.edu\/cmhedonate\">Center for Medical Humanities &amp; Ethics<\/a>, and is by far the most interprofessional with medical, dental, nursing and physician assistant students and faculty advisers.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that 4,000 to 5,000 refugees live in a small area off Wurzbach Road in northwest San Antonio, within three miles of the Health Science Center. About 1,000 arrived in 2014 alone. They hail from dozens of countries, including Iraq, Cuba, Burma, Afghanistan, Iran, Bhutan, Congo, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Most refugees who are resettled in the United States are given temporary health benefits by the federal government that typically run out after six to eight months. Many of those who rely on the student-run clinic have no insurance, few resources and are without regular medical care. The Refugee Health Clinic plays a vital role in filling this gap, treating an estimated 500 patients a year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really a lost population,\u201d said Victoria Petty, one of the nursing student leaders at the clinic. \u201cWhen you think of refugees, you think of New York or Miami. You think of these big portals of the U.S., not San Antonio. But we really have a population here that\u2019s not even recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patients mirror those from any outpatient clinic, with general health concerns, said Al-Asadi, one of the medical student leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe get patients who are there for back pain, for the flu, for uncontrolled diabetes, for hypertension, for rashes, for dental problems. We even get pediatric cases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The students, under the guidance of faculty mentors, provide basic care and referrals, all at no charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point of the clinic is not to always have them come back to the clinic, because it\u2019s an outpatient clinic,\u201d Al-Asadi said. \u201cThe point is to treat them at that moment and try to get them linked to the health care system here in San Antonio. If they don\u2019t qualify for the [Affordable Care Act], we try Carelink, a financial assistance health care program through University Health System. And usually we\u2019re successful with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Listening, learning, treating<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5495\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-image-5495\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-farokhi-1024x602.jpg\" alt=\"Nursing student Alizain Maneshia (top left), medical student Nichole Michaeli (with stethoscope) and dental student Peggah Hammat observe as Dr. Farokhi, dental faculty adviser to the clinic, points out a dental problem in a patient.\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-farokhi-1024x602.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-farokhi-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-farokhi-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-farokhi.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Nursing student Alizain Maneshia (top left), medical student Nichole Michaeli (with stethoscope) and dental student Peggah Hemmat observe as Dr. Farokhi, dental faculty adviser to the clinic, points out a dental problem in a patient.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The refugee clinic provides unique challenges and opportunities for the future health care providers. One is the interprofessional nature of the setting. Teams are made up of a medical student, a nursing student and a dental student. They all observe each other\u2019s role in the patient\u2019s treatment and report as a team to their faculty advisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m applying nursing school [lessons] even before I\u2019ve graduated,\u201d said Petty. \u201cYou learn the behind-the-scenes of a clinic, you learn how doctors interact with patients, how dentists interact. It\u2019s all-encompassing. You get more information there than you\u2019d get in a regular classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students are able to learn from each other, said Peggah Hemmat, a fourth-year dental student and first-generation Iranian-American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a dental student, I\u2019ve learned so much about the medical aspect and how to interview patients and what questions to ask,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember a patient who had periodontal disease, bone disease. And they had no idea what that was. We had\u00a0to sit with them and explain why this is happening, what are some risk factors and how do we make sure you don\u2019t lose all your teeth. Not only was it a learning experience for the patient, it was a learning experience for the nursing and medical students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A particular test for the students comes with the nature of the patient population itself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the greatest challenges is dealing with so many different cultures, so many different languages,\u201d said Eden Bernstein, one of the medical student leaders. \u201cWe try to have adequate interpreters, but a lot of times we have to improvise and be very patient with the patients that we see. There\u2019s not really an easy answer, it\u2019s just kind of being resilient and focusing on the task at hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many of the students, as well as the faculty advisers, have some sort of international background or experience, and many are bilingual. There are Arabic speakers such as Al-Asadi, the medical student. Hemmat, the dental student, speaks fluent Farsi. Alizain Maneshia, a nursing student and native of Pakistan, speaks Hindi. Others speak French and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, one member of a patient\u2019s family speaks enough English to translate. But still, at times, interpreters have to be hired. Aside from the language differences, many refugees have had little experience with health care and find it difficult to describe symptoms or illness progression.<\/p>\n<div class=\"section-full-width section-dark\" style=\"background-color:#000000; min-height:150px;\" id=\"section-2\"><div class=\"section-boxed\" style=\"color:#ffffff;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>You don\u2019t have to do mission trips in another country to learn about the world.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>The world is here in San Antonio.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\u2014Moshtagh R. Farokhi, D.D.S., M.P.H., clinical assistant professor in comprehensive dentistry and dentistry adviser for the Refugee Health Clinic<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Stepping out of the box<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If the cultural challenges are steep, the gratification is abundant, the students agreed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5501\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5501\" class=\"wp-image-5501\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-peg-600px.jpg\" alt=\"Fourth-year dentistry student Peggah Hammat examines Nar Kami, from Bhutan, at the Refugee Health Clinic.\" width=\"500\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-peg-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-peg-600px-150x129.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2016\/01\/refugee-clinic-peg-600px-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Fourth-year dentistry student Peggah Hemmat examines Nar Kami, from Bhutan, at the Refugee Health Clinic.<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I leave the refugee clinic, I know that I\u2019ve impacted this population just a little bit more,\u201d Hemmat said. \u201cEvery one of these cultures is very family oriented. So if you tell them just a little about oral hygiene or teach them how to take care of their teeth, it will permeate through the rest of their [family circle].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bernstein, the medical student, contrasted his experiences at the clinic with classroom work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing through the curriculum for the first years of medical school\u2014it\u2019s the preclinical medicine where we focus on the disease process, on the science,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s very textbook-oriented learning. So any time that I\u2019m able to step out of that little box and glimpse what I\u2019ll eventually see as a doctor and how I can potentially make an impact in the future, it\u2019s invigorating and exciting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery once in a while I see a patient and I\u2019ll refer them out to receive care from a different place or we send them to get labs at University Hospital, and we follow them up at the next clinic and I see that the treatment that we gave them worked and they\u2019re better. It\u2019s very refreshing to feel that you\u2019ve made this impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Petty, the nursing student, pointed to the inherent altruism in health care fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to be a nurse because I like pus and broken bones and blood,\u201d she said, only half-jokingly. \u201cAnd it\u2019s exciting. And at the end of the day, whether it\u2019s something as outrageous as that or something as simple as helping a Nepalese man to overcome the flu at our clinic, you\u2019re helping someone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al-Asadi remembers a refugee who came to the clinic suffering from severe anemia. He was able to diagnose it and get her the proper treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt happy,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause I thought that was the gratification I was looking for. To make people feel better and to feel gratified, I think that\u2019s part of the payment. It\u2019s not necessarily financial. It\u2019s a humanitarian profession, and we all signed up to serve people. And we should keep that always in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student-run clinic brings health care to those fleeing violence and persecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall15-winter16","category-features"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The &#039;lost&#039; population - Mission magazine | UT Health Science Center San Antonio<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-old\/the-lost-population\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The &#039;lost&#039; 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