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Edgar Granda is wheeled into surgery.
the safety net of health-care services for lower-income residents. “It gets more exciting every year,” said Dr. Geoffrey Griffiths, an orthopedic surgeon who was the event’s coordinating physician. “We get to
By the numbers The second annual Community Surgery Day at Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center:
partner with outside groups that we don’t normally get to interact with so that’s appealing as well. The bottom line is the patients who would not otherwise get that surgery, we get to offer that to them. It was just a great day.”
Dr. Siobhan Gogan
Surgeries and procedures 5 cataract surgeries 3 colonoscopy screenings 3 gynecological procedures 2 hernia surgeries Patients 13 Volunteers 11 physicians: Yong Cai, anesthesiology; Siobhan Gogan, ophthalmology; Geoffrey Griffiths, or thopedics; Karin Jones, gynecology; Timothy Lowe, anesthesiology; Anthony Ma, anesthesiology; Mark Richey, ophthalmology; Matthew Sherman, general surgery; Leticia Spencer, gynecology; James Wang, gastroenterology; Daniel Yau, ophthalmology 61 others: including nurses, lab techs, hospital administrators and clerical workers Source: Kaiser Permanente
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