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Speaker 1: have a guest joining me over the telephone right now,
Speaker 1: doctor Bob Sentella, and we're going to talk about Midwest
Speaker 1: Street Medicine and a fundraising event that's coming up. But first,
Speaker 1: doctor Bob, thank you for your time, and let's talk
Speaker 1: about how you got involved at Midwest Street Medicine.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm a retired physician and I heard a news story.
Speaker 2: I've always been interested in the social determinants of health.
Speaker 2: I was an afrologist at Kidney Doctor. I retired almost
Speaker 2: four years ago, and I've always been interested in the
Speaker 2: social determinants of health. And after I retired, I actually
Speaker 2: started teaching a little bit. I've always been at the
Speaker 2: medical school. I was originally hired by the medical school.
Speaker 2: There used to be a practice plan and that dissolved,
Speaker 2: and then I worked for Era. I've always been interested.
Speaker 2: I've always taught medical students to some degree, usually straight
Speaker 2: medicine but after I retired, I had an interest in
Speaker 2: the social determinis of health. So I have been teaching
Speaker 2: periodically the medical students about the social determinants of health.
Speaker 2: That is what determines how long we live in our
Speaker 2: quality of life in terms of not just the pure
Speaker 2: biology and treatment with medicines, but you know housing and
Speaker 2: mental health, and you know ability to afford medicines and
Speaker 2: care and insurance and everything else. And then I heard
Speaker 2: a news article about Midwest Street Medicine, and so I
Speaker 2: contacted the co founder, doctor Shannon Emery, and said, Hey,
Speaker 2: can you use a physicians She said, well, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: the only one. So that led to me being a
Speaker 2: part of Midwest Street Medicine.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love that you have a kind
Speaker 1: heart and you stepped up to help. For folks that
Speaker 1: are not familiar with Midwest Street Medicine, let's kind of
Speaker 1: clue them in on what you guys do. I'm familiar
Speaker 1: with it. I think it's an amazing organization. It's a
Speaker 1: wonderful nonprofit. But let's talk about what you guys do
Speaker 1: at Midwest Street Medicine.
Speaker 2: So we're a group of volunteer healthcare workers and peer
Speaker 2: support specialists who deliver evidence based trauma and form care
Speaker 2: to people suffering from homelessness. So we are doctors, nurses, pas, nursepectitioners, pharmacists,
Speaker 2: community health workers, counselors, and peer support specialists. Those are
Speaker 2: people who have a lived experience, who've been homeless themselves
Speaker 2: or had problems of substance use, and they're part of
Speaker 2: the team. They help break the ice and gain trust,
Speaker 2: and we go to the people on the street and
Speaker 2: we provide care. We go to shelters, go to the street,
Speaker 2: go to the river, go to under railroad bridges, wherever
Speaker 2: the people are, and we treat everything infection, wounds for us, bite, hilo, pressure,
Speaker 2: addiction care, mental health, and we help coordinate with other
Speaker 2: services like housing and legal and we get medications for
Speaker 2: patients and nice. They're the most vulnerable in our community
Speaker 2: and we try to treat them. So I just wanted
Speaker 2: to get that out there because some people have no
Speaker 2: idea what we do.
Speaker 1: Absolutely no. I love that. And what would you say,
Speaker 1: is the most common thing that you treat or does
Speaker 1: that change based on the time of year?
Speaker 2: The medical the pure medical changes that time of year.
Speaker 2: I mean, we treat frostbite in winter and heat related
Speaker 2: illness in the summer. But we're always treating infection. But
Speaker 2: I would say that mental health care subsist use disorder,
Speaker 2: those are probably there all the time, and then we
Speaker 2: treat a lot of infections, a lot of wounds very nice.
Speaker 1: And again this is something that the average person probably
Speaker 1: can't help, like on the Street team, but they can
Speaker 1: help by showing up at the fundraising event. It's a
Speaker 1: jazz concert Friday, October third, seven pm at Remedy Brewing Downtown,
Speaker 1: and it looks like it's going to be a really
Speaker 1: fun event. I've heard of a few of the folks
Speaker 1: that are going to be performing, and it sounds like
Speaker 1: it's going to be a really nice thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, First of all, they're very talented musicians, Dan Hired,
Speaker 2: Jim Spears, John Kelly, Ruben Rodriguez. I mean, you would
Speaker 2: pay money to go see him at Trio, but this
Speaker 2: is free. We're just if you like what we do
Speaker 2: and you like them, then we're asking for a free
Speaker 2: will offering and we have we have a raffle for
Speaker 2: their concert at the Fellowship Jazz Concert at the Pavilion,
Speaker 2: but it is free and most of our Midwest Street
Speaker 2: Medicine team will be there. You could talk to us.
Speaker 2: But we are medical care is expensive. Everybody knows that. Well,
Speaker 2: we provide it for free. So you know, we need
Speaker 2: to raise money and this is a wonderful way to
Speaker 2: do it. Do it jazz. It's going to be a one.
Speaker 2: I mean, they're just talents and talented physicians. Hey, I've
Speaker 2: been I've been to the Blueoe in New York. I've
Speaker 2: been to Kingston Mines in Chicago, and these guys could
Speaker 2: play their hands down, no questions. So so it should
Speaker 2: be a lot of fun and jazz music. The music
Speaker 2: is just I consider a transcendent joy. I mean, I
Speaker 2: just think it really stress. I mean with all the
Speaker 2: problems and the stresses in the world, you know, for
Speaker 2: a couple hours, people can just relax and enjoy themselves.
Speaker 1: Absolutely again. The event is coming up on Friday, October third,
Speaker 1: seven pm at Remedy Brewing Downtown at eighth and Railroad Center.
Speaker 1: It is a fundraiser for Midwest Street Medicine. Thank you
Speaker 1: again for taking the time to help with what you
Speaker 1: do at Midwest Street Medicine and thanks for your time
Speaker 1: to chat with us today.
Speaker 2: Oh you're welcome if you would.
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