{"id":806,"date":"2022-07-20T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=806"},"modified":"2022-07-20T15:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T22:24:36","slug":"working-with-health-care-providers-to-recognize-human-symptoms-of-unhealthy-well-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2022\/07\/20\/working-with-health-care-providers-to-recognize-human-symptoms-of-unhealthy-well-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with health care providers to recognize human symptoms of unhealthy well water"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ahad Aziz (from left) with fellow interns Briauna Herrick and Kelci Free at a nitrate testing table at the Corvallis Farmers Market.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Hey everyone! My name is Ahad Aziz, and I am from Tigard, Oregon. I just recently graduated from Oregon State with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and have a few more classes until I also finish my Bachelor of Science in public health with a focus in health management and policy. I\u2019m on track to graduate in December, and I will still be at Oregon State, working on a Master of Business Administration degree. My background is definitely different than most of the other OSU Extension interns. Still, I\u2019m glad to be able to provide that unique and \u201coutsider\u201d perspective to the Extension service and groundwater protection program in the mid-Willamette Valley.<\/p>\n

So far, I have worked at four well-water testing clinics and have many more to be a part of for the rest of the summer. My specific intern project is working with the medical community in the area, mainly from Salem to Eugene, and providing health care professionals with the knowledge to best support their patients who rely on well water. I\u2019ve found that there\u2019s a disconnect between health care providers and their rural patients as not many of them realize that some symptoms that their patients come in with might have something to do with nitrate or other unhealthy things in the water.<\/p>\n

With that being said, I\u2019m going to shamelessly plug the fact that if you live in the mid-Willamette Valley, you can get your well water tested at an OSU Extension office near you! Just bring half-a-cup of water in a clean cup to Extension offices in Benton, Lane, Linn, Marion and Polk counties, Monday through Friday, during normal business hours, and we\u2019ll get your water tested for nitrate. I\u2019ll be at the office in Benton County if you want to meet me personally, or to give me life advice because I have no idea what I want to do with my future.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll talk to you guys again in September!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey everyone! My name is Ahad Aziz, and I am from Tigard, Oregon. I just recently graduated from Oregon State with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and have a few more classes until I also finish my Bachelor of Science in public health with a focus in health management and policy. I\u2019m on track… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12538,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,146,75,59,64],"tags":[147,62,142],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benton-county","category-groundwater-protection","category-lane-county","category-linn-county","category-polk-county","tag-ahad-aziz","tag-benton-county","tag-groundwater-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}