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"content": "\u003cp>Dr. Lorraine Page, believe it or not, makes house calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place she visits is the home of Ann Caponio, a one-bedroom apartment in Half Moon Bay, California. You can tell a knitter lives there: baskets of wool and hanks of yarn adorn the room, and in the corner sits a wooden spinning wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A new model gains in popularity: no insurance but unlimited doctor visits are provided for a monthly fee.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But arthritis has put an end to that hobby. And for a while, Caponio, 69, wasn't even getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kind of stopped going downtown,\" she says, in her Midland, Texas twang, a holdover from childhood. \"Omigod those stairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about a steep, 17-step staircase leading to her front door. Three hip replacements left negotiating them a dangerous proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tend to fall. And I fell on those damned stairs once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where Lorraine Page enters the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the house calls, Page provides a little more than Caponio might expect from a primary care doc available through Medicare. Page, for instance, has aided her patient with a number of safety issues, including helping her find someone to rig up a chairlift on those stairs. Now, she can sit on a seat at the top and glide to the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It opens up a whole new world for me,\" Caponio says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Model\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A whole new world is what Dr. Page herself has been experiencing, ever since she left the traditional clinic setting to try something different. She does have a small office, but prefers to visit most of her patients in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">When they learn they can get off the production line, 'Doctors will be in mass exodus.'\u003ccite>Dr. Pamela Wible\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She's one of a growing number of doctors who have cut loose from what she calls the \"assembly-line, volume approach\" that most of her colleagues have experienced. These breakaway docs are now using a health care delivery model called direct primary care. Page has cut back on the number of patients she sees, and spends more time with the ones she does. She doesn't take insurance and deals mostly in cash. Page charges each time she sees a patient, but most direct primary care doctors bill a monthly fee for unlimited visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her previous practice, Page says, the pressure to see more patients in less time wore her down, as did the need for an army of support staff to process the copious paperwork required by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At our office, we had six full-time doctors. And we had seven full-time insurance people. So [that's] more than one full-time person trying to get reimbursement for patients I was seeing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of leaving that bureaucratic load behind includes more time with patients but shorter days as her total load has been reduced. And she's doing the kind of family-care medicine for which she was trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I enjoy it a lot more,\" Page says. \"Let's not minimize that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vPRJXQNXVX11c9sC2BeSG7GGPJpZybhw\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Doctors Want\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2012/public\" target=\"_blank\">Medscape study\u003c/a> found that 46 percent of primary care physicians showed such dissatisfaction with their careers, they wouldn't pursue medicine if they could choose again. Another\u003ca href=\"http://www.physiciansfoundation.org/healthcare-research/a-survey-of-americas-physicians-practice-patterns-and-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\"> study\u003c/a>, from the Physicians Foundation, found 60 percent of primary care doctors would not recommend a career in medicine. Just six percent described the morale of their colleagues as positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, says Wanda Filer, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, primary care doctors feel overworked and ineffective. \"Most patients are just rushed out the door,\" she says. \"That's not what doctors want to do. This new model of care gets the physician and the patient out of that hamster-wheel model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filer says about three percent of the organization's 69,000 primary care doctors have made the move to direct primary care in the past couple of years, and that number is increasing rapidly as other physicians see it succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Filer says, her organization has taken the unusual step of convening informational seminars for the large number of family doctors who have expressed interest in getting off the grid and starting a kinder, gentler practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cash and Care\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_220077\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-220077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/08/emiliescott1-885x1180.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Emilie Scott of Irvine, Calif.\" width=\"357\" height=\"476\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Emilie Scott of Irvine, Calif., says the direct primary care model has put 'the heart back in medicine' for her. (David Gorn/KQED) \u003ccite>(David Gorn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While direct primary care has some similarities to \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-future-of-healthcare-could-be-in-concierge-medicine-063015\" target=\"_blank\">concierge medicine\u003c/a>, it differs in that direct primary care rejects insurance. And, because concierge medicine sprang from wealthy patients’ desire for greater access to their doctors, patients can \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303471004579165470633112630\" target=\"_blank\">pay up to thousands of dollars a month\u003c/a> for same-day appointments, round-the-clock phone access, house calls and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, direct primary care doctors charge a relatively small monthly fee. While that can be an extra cost for those who also need insurance to cover more serious medical problems, many patients have high-deductible plans, making the monthly expense of direct primary care a good deal, especially for those who go to the doctor a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For doctors, the main idea behind direct primary care is to simplify -- scale down, deal mostly in cash and focus on taking better care of fewer patients. This includes a good deal of listening and analysis of how a patient's current environment or life situation may be affecting their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of service \u003ca href=\"http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/07/direct-primary-care-reduces-primary-care-costs.html\" target=\"_blank\">took off as a movement\u003c/a> in 2011, and the model was first evaluated in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/04/retainer-direct-primary-care\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by the California Health Care Foundation. It's gaining significant traction, says Laurence Baker, the chair of Stanford University's Department of Health Research and Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely it's a growing segment of primary care,\" he says. \"The model we have is challenged in a lot of ways, the longer a patient waits to see a doctor, the shorter time spent with the doctor. So we have to think about what else we can do to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be surprised if it took over the world,\" Baker added, \"But I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it grew substantially more in the next few years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Doctors Will Be in Mass Exodus'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason doctors need to see so many patients in rapid succession is because of huge overhead, says Pamela Wible, a physician in Eugene, Ore., who helps doctors set up their ideal practice using the direct primary care model. In fact, she says, most doctors see just a small fraction of gross earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the kind of streamlined operation found in direct primary care allows doctors to keep a greater share of the money coming in, she says, even if they make less overall than in a traditional practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My expenses are so low, they're now about 10 percent of my practice,\" Wible says. \"And it used to be 74 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wible says the direct primary care model has at its heart the relationship between doctor and patient. She says doctors \"will be in mass exodus\" once they learn they can run their practice differently and \"get off the production line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Emilie Scott did just that, in March. She had worked in an academic medical setting for many years, then in a large group practice for another five before venturing out on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no waiting room magazines in her tiny Irvine medical office, because there is no waiting room. And that's because there is no waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She charges her patients $59 per month. Just five months in, she says, her practice is already breaking even.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me, it puts the heart back in medicine,\" Scott says, grinning. In the past, \"I had to see patients in a rapid style, trying to get patients out the door. It wears on you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands the fear some doctors have of taking the leap, in part because of the massive debt they've incurred from medical school. But, she says, \"The point here isn't to become a millionaire. You make a good living, and you can practice in line with your values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said some of her patients are surprised at how little her service costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had one woman who said she couldn't afford it but said she'd listen, and then I explained it, and she was like, 'Are we on Candid Camera or something? What's the catch?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shrinking the Physician Pool?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Coffman, a health policy professor at the University of California, San Francisco, says she doesn't expect direct primary care to explode on the medical scene. Rather, she believes it will make slow and steady inroads. She doesn't think insurance companies will fight the model, even though it cuts them out of the medical care delivery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one major effect direct primary care could have, she said, is to further shrink the already inadequate pool of primary care physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I were an insurance company, I think I'd be more concerned about recruiting and keeping PCPs because of this,\" Coffman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Imholz, director of special projects for Consumers Union, agrees that could be a concern if direct primary care catches on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Primary care is one of the least lucrative areas for doctors to go into,” Imholz says, “and therefore sometimes difficult for insurers to get sufficient numbers of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imholz sees some other potential problems with the model. While she understands why both doctors and patients are attracted to direct primary care — “the old \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Welby\u003c/a> model,” as she puts it — she thinks it’s a move in the opposite direction of the current push for an integrated health care system. Ideally, doctors would have access to patients’ electronic health records, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2014/rwjf409988\" target=\"_blank\">all-payer claims databases\u003c/a>, at least \u003ca href=\"http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/03/all-six-states-keep-consumers-dark-cost-medical-procedures\" target=\"_blank\">theoretically\u003c/a>, would allow purchasers of insurance to compare costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes against this coordinated care model that the Affordable Care Act and the U.S. is coming to,” she says, “having things not fragmented but coordinated [in a way that] enables us to check, make quality assessments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imholz is also concerned this type of practice could attract healthier people, who might see direct primary care as a substitute for insurance rather than an extra. And that could deprive the ACA \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/03/30/theyre-sicker-plus-aca-enrollees-cost-more-in-care-major-insurer-finds/\" target=\"_blank\">risk pool \u003c/a>of the very type of patients \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/obamacare-premiums-rise-10-percent-2017-490268\" target=\"_blank\">needed to keep cost increases manageable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers in California, Imholz said, should also keep in mind a little-known benefit of the plans offered on the state’s health care exchange, Covered California: those plans are required to offer three visits outside of the deductible, costing only a co-pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, she says, if patients do want to go the route of direct primary care, they should create their own \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/faqs/what-personal-health-record\" target=\"_blank\">personal health record\u003c/a> for each visit, in case at some point they need to visit a specialist for a serious health problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether direct primary care will positively impact patients' health, Laurence Baker says it's not clear whether or not the longer office and home visits end up providing better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sure we know if this makes you healthier at the end of the day,\" Baker says. \"It will make you happier, definitely, but the jury is still out about whether it improves outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's Lovely'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Half Moon Bay, physician Lorraine Page says she doesn't need data. She tries to find the words for the improvement she has seen in her life and the lives of her patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's … lovely,\" she says with a laugh. \"It's just lovely. The patients do better, I get to see the whole person, the whole family. It's true family practice. And it's very straightforward. I see the person, I get paid. It's simple.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of practice, she says, is what many young doctors-to-be have in mind when they first think about entering medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's an odd twist that Page's current work is considered the cutting- edge of primary care medicine, when it so closely resembles a kind of 1950s Norman Rockwell painting of what a general practitioner is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most doctors don't even think about what they want anymore, Page says. They get caught up in the system and don't realize there's another choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But leaving was surprisingly easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Look, your skills are in your mind,\" Page says. \"You can do that anywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Jon Brooks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Dr. Lorraine Page, believe it or not, makes house calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One place she visits is the home of Ann Caponio, a one-bedroom apartment in Half Moon Bay, California. You can tell a knitter lives there: baskets of wool and hanks of yarn adorn the room, and in the corner sits a wooden spinning wheel.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">A new model gains in popularity: no insurance but unlimited doctor visits are provided for a monthly fee.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But arthritis has put an end to that hobby. And for a while, Caponio, 69, wasn't even getting out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I kind of stopped going downtown,\" she says, in her Midland, Texas twang, a holdover from childhood. \"Omigod those stairs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about a steep, 17-step staircase leading to her front door. Three hip replacements left negotiating them a dangerous proposition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I tend to fall. And I fell on those damned stairs once.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that's where Lorraine Page enters the picture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the house calls, Page provides a little more than Caponio might expect from a primary care doc available through Medicare. Page, for instance, has aided her patient with a number of safety issues, including helping her find someone to rig up a chairlift on those stairs. Now, she can sit on a seat at the top and glide to the bottom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It opens up a whole new world for me,\" Caponio says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Different Model\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A whole new world is what Dr. Page herself has been experiencing, ever since she left the traditional clinic setting to try something different. She does have a small office, but prefers to visit most of her patients in their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">When they learn they can get off the production line, 'Doctors will be in mass exodus.'\u003ccite>Dr. Pamela Wible\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She's one of a growing number of doctors who have cut loose from what she calls the \"assembly-line, volume approach\" that most of her colleagues have experienced. These breakaway docs are now using a health care delivery model called direct primary care. Page has cut back on the number of patients she sees, and spends more time with the ones she does. She doesn't take insurance and deals mostly in cash. Page charges each time she sees a patient, but most direct primary care doctors bill a monthly fee for unlimited visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her previous practice, Page says, the pressure to see more patients in less time wore her down, as did the need for an army of support staff to process the copious paperwork required by insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"At our office, we had six full-time doctors. And we had seven full-time insurance people. So [that's] more than one full-time person trying to get reimbursement for patients I was seeing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The benefits of leaving that bureaucratic load behind includes more time with patients but shorter days as her total load has been reduced. And she's doing the kind of family-care medicine for which she was trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I enjoy it a lot more,\" Page says. \"Let's not minimize that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What Doctors Want\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2012 \u003ca href=\"http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2012/public\" target=\"_blank\">Medscape study\u003c/a> found that 46 percent of primary care physicians showed such dissatisfaction with their careers, they wouldn't pursue medicine if they could choose again. Another\u003ca href=\"http://www.physiciansfoundation.org/healthcare-research/a-survey-of-americas-physicians-practice-patterns-and-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\"> study\u003c/a>, from the Physicians Foundation, found 60 percent of primary care doctors would not recommend a career in medicine. Just six percent described the morale of their colleagues as positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, says Wanda Filer, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, primary care doctors feel overworked and ineffective. \"Most patients are just rushed out the door,\" she says. \"That's not what doctors want to do. This new model of care gets the physician and the patient out of that hamster-wheel model.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filer says about three percent of the organization's 69,000 primary care doctors have made the move to direct primary care in the past couple of years, and that number is increasing rapidly as other physicians see it succeed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Filer says, her organization has taken the unusual step of convening informational seminars for the large number of family doctors who have expressed interest in getting off the grid and starting a kinder, gentler practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Cash and Care\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_220077\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-220077\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/08/emiliescott1-885x1180.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Emilie Scott of Irvine, Calif.\" width=\"357\" height=\"476\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Emilie Scott of Irvine, Calif., says the direct primary care model has put 'the heart back in medicine' for her. (David Gorn/KQED) \u003ccite>(David Gorn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While direct primary care has some similarities to \u003ca href=\"http://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-future-of-healthcare-could-be-in-concierge-medicine-063015\" target=\"_blank\">concierge medicine\u003c/a>, it differs in that direct primary care rejects insurance. And, because concierge medicine sprang from wealthy patients’ desire for greater access to their doctors, patients can \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303471004579165470633112630\" target=\"_blank\">pay up to thousands of dollars a month\u003c/a> for same-day appointments, round-the-clock phone access, house calls and other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In contrast, direct primary care doctors charge a relatively small monthly fee. While that can be an extra cost for those who also need insurance to cover more serious medical problems, many patients have high-deductible plans, making the monthly expense of direct primary care a good deal, especially for those who go to the doctor a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For doctors, the main idea behind direct primary care is to simplify -- scale down, deal mostly in cash and focus on taking better care of fewer patients. This includes a good deal of listening and analysis of how a patient's current environment or life situation may be affecting their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of service \u003ca href=\"http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/07/direct-primary-care-reduces-primary-care-costs.html\" target=\"_blank\">took off as a movement\u003c/a> in 2011, and the model was first evaluated in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/04/retainer-direct-primary-care\" target=\"_blank\">study\u003c/a> by the California Health Care Foundation. It's gaining significant traction, says Laurence Baker, the chair of Stanford University's Department of Health Research and Policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Absolutely it's a growing segment of primary care,\" he says. \"The model we have is challenged in a lot of ways, the longer a patient waits to see a doctor, the shorter time spent with the doctor. So we have to think about what else we can do to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would be surprised if it took over the world,\" Baker added, \"But I certainly wouldn't be surprised if it grew substantially more in the next few years.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'Doctors Will Be in Mass Exodus'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason doctors need to see so many patients in rapid succession is because of huge overhead, says Pamela Wible, a physician in Eugene, Ore., who helps doctors set up their ideal practice using the direct primary care model. In fact, she says, most doctors see just a small fraction of gross earnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the kind of streamlined operation found in direct primary care allows doctors to keep a greater share of the money coming in, she says, even if they make less overall than in a traditional practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My expenses are so low, they're now about 10 percent of my practice,\" Wible says. \"And it used to be 74 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wible says the direct primary care model has at its heart the relationship between doctor and patient. She says doctors \"will be in mass exodus\" once they learn they can run their practice differently and \"get off the production line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Emilie Scott did just that, in March. She had worked in an academic medical setting for many years, then in a large group practice for another five before venturing out on her own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are no waiting room magazines in her tiny Irvine medical office, because there is no waiting room. And that's because there is no waiting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She charges her patients $59 per month. Just five months in, she says, her practice is already breaking even.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For me, it puts the heart back in medicine,\" Scott says, grinning. In the past, \"I had to see patients in a rapid style, trying to get patients out the door. It wears on you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She understands the fear some doctors have of taking the leap, in part because of the massive debt they've incurred from medical school. But, she says, \"The point here isn't to become a millionaire. You make a good living, and you can practice in line with your values.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said some of her patients are surprised at how little her service costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had one woman who said she couldn't afford it but said she'd listen, and then I explained it, and she was like, 'Are we on Candid Camera or something? What's the catch?'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shrinking the Physician Pool?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janet Coffman, a health policy professor at the University of California, San Francisco, says she doesn't expect direct primary care to explode on the medical scene. Rather, she believes it will make slow and steady inroads. She doesn't think insurance companies will fight the model, even though it cuts them out of the medical care delivery system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one major effect direct primary care could have, she said, is to further shrink the already inadequate pool of primary care physicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If I were an insurance company, I think I'd be more concerned about recruiting and keeping PCPs because of this,\" Coffman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Betsy Imholz, director of special projects for Consumers Union, agrees that could be a concern if direct primary care catches on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Primary care is one of the least lucrative areas for doctors to go into,” Imholz says, “and therefore sometimes difficult for insurers to get sufficient numbers of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imholz sees some other potential problems with the model. While she understands why both doctors and patients are attracted to direct primary care — “the old \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y10VEkyKd3w\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Welby\u003c/a> model,” as she puts it — she thinks it’s a move in the opposite direction of the current push for an integrated health care system. Ideally, doctors would have access to patients’ electronic health records, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2014/rwjf409988\" target=\"_blank\">all-payer claims databases\u003c/a>, at least \u003ca href=\"http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/03/all-six-states-keep-consumers-dark-cost-medical-procedures\" target=\"_blank\">theoretically\u003c/a>, would allow purchasers of insurance to compare costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It goes against this coordinated care model that the Affordable Care Act and the U.S. is coming to,” she says, “having things not fragmented but coordinated [in a way that] enables us to check, make quality assessments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Imholz is also concerned this type of practice could attract healthier people, who might see direct primary care as a substitute for insurance rather than an extra. And that could deprive the ACA \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/03/30/theyre-sicker-plus-aca-enrollees-cost-more-in-care-major-insurer-finds/\" target=\"_blank\">risk pool \u003c/a>of the very type of patients \u003ca href=\"http://www.newsweek.com/obamacare-premiums-rise-10-percent-2017-490268\" target=\"_blank\">needed to keep cost increases manageable\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Consumers in California, Imholz said, should also keep in mind a little-known benefit of the plans offered on the state’s health care exchange, Covered California: those plans are required to offer three visits outside of the deductible, costing only a co-pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, she says, if patients do want to go the route of direct primary care, they should create their own \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthit.gov/providers-professionals/faqs/what-personal-health-record\" target=\"_blank\">personal health record\u003c/a> for each visit, in case at some point they need to visit a specialist for a serious health problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether direct primary care will positively impact patients' health, Laurence Baker says it's not clear whether or not the longer office and home visits end up providing better care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not sure we know if this makes you healthier at the end of the day,\" Baker says. \"It will make you happier, definitely, but the jury is still out about whether it improves outcomes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>'It's Lovely'\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Half Moon Bay, physician Lorraine Page says she doesn't need data. 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"content": "\u003cp>Rain failed to deter more than 100,000 locals and out-of-towners from showing up at the \u003ca href=\"http://pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com/\">45th Annual Art and Pumpkin Festival\u003c/a> in Half Moon Bay this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historic Main Street was lined with art, pumpkin doughnut vendors and, of course, the occasional kid in a \"Ghostbusters\" costume. A highlight was the Great Pumpkin Parade, with the local high school’s homecoming court leading the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event, which raises thousands of dollars each year for community organizations and scholarships, now attracts thousands of outsiders and features live music, face painting, shopping and DIY art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10724065\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10724065 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill, OR won the 42nd Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off with his 1,969 pound pumpkin. This is Daletas’ third time winning the weigh off in Half Moon Bay. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_2045-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Daletas of Pleasant Hill, Oregon, stands with his mother, Jeanette, as winner of the 42nd Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off. The pumpkin weighed in at 1,969 pounds. \u003ccite>(Ericka Cruz Guevarra/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But it remains, after all, a pumpkin festival. Spectators lined up along main street for the Great Pumpkin Parade, some with pumpkin pie in hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the parade’s highlights was the 1,969-pound winner of the \u003ca href=\"http://weighoff.miramarevents.com/index.php\">42nd Annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off\u003c/a>, the 12th heaviest in the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Competition growers all over the world understand the stature and historical significance of Half Moon Bay'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steve Daletas, 55, won $11,814 ($6 per pound) for his pumpkin. The airline pilot from Pleasant Hill, Oregon, won the weigh-off twice before, once in 2001 and again in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Competition growers all over the world understand the stature and historical significance of Half Moon Bay, and to win here is an incredible feeling,“ said Daletas in a post on the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/HalfMoonBayPumpkinFestival/\">Facebook page\u003c/a>. “It’s been a great year and I simply could not have accomplished this without the support of my family ... it’s definitely a team effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724077,10724152,10724071,10724150\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The festival was created by the \u003ca href=\"http://pumpkinfest.miramarevents.com/hmbbc-facts.html\">Main Street Committee for Beautification \u003c/a>in 1970 to raise funds to restore the historic downtown. In the first year, the city was able to paint buildings and plant trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, millions have gone to grants and donations, with more than $100,000 going to local scholarships in the past 20 years. About $25,000 goes to maintenance on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All the proceeds and profits [from the Pumpkin Festival] go right back into the community and organizations like the Boys & Girls Club and the Senior Center\" said Shari Mills, a festival volunteer at the information booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724083,10724155,10724229,10724154,10724228,10724227\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Pumpkin Festival isn't just about the pumpkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Oddyssea's activity and adventure garden on Main Street, visitors could make everything from sand art to earth treasure necklaces -- paid for, of course, with pirate doubloons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young princesses hoping to win the annual costume contest could pass time in line for a walk through the Haunted Barn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival-goers could also treat themselves to seasonal pumpkin harvest ales or beverages from Half Moon Bay Winery, all while watching the MLB playoffs in the \"Take 5 Lounge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"rectangular\" ids=\"10724304,10724306,10724157,10724307\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When rain began to sprinkle, visitors either put on their hoods or headed back from where they came.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Festival-goers from Hayward, Santa Cruz, San Jose and beyond contributed to the traffic along the two main highways leading to Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those stuck in the backup, it was a scenic ride along the country side of the small pumpkin capital with a now 45-year-old festival that, in 1970, was just a modest hometown effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others, like a group of friends from San Jose, Sunnyvale, Union City, Menlo Park and Santa Clara, were just getting started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why would we leave now?\" they said as they ate their pumpkin pie in the rain. \"We drove over two hours to get here.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS11988_picture-yanira.jpg-alt_143.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147291\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS11988_picture-yanira.jpg-alt_143-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Attorney Jonathan Melrod (left) joins Yanira Serrano-Garcia's family to announce a civil rights lawsuit on Sept. 9 against San Mateo County alleging excessive force in a fatal officer-involved shooting on June 3. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Jonathan Melrod (left) joins Yanira Serrano-Garcia's family to announce a civil rights lawsuit on Sept. 9 against San Mateo County alleging excessive force in a fatal officer-involved shooting on June 3. (Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Family members of an 18-year-old woman shot and killed by a San Mateo County sheriff's deputy in June filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on Tuesday over the shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit (\u003ca href=\"#lawsuit\">see below\u003c/a>) alleges excessive force and deliberate indifference in the county's training of law enforcement to safely respond to calls involving mental illness. It stems from the June 3 fatal shooting of Yanira Serrano-Garcia and names San Mateo County and sheriff's Deputy Menh Trieu as defendants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They not only killed Yanira, they killed the entire family,\" Serrano-Garcia's mother, Carmen Garcia, told reporters in Spanish as tears fell down her face. \"The goal is to prevent any other family from suffering this kind of pain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\nBoth Serrano-Garcia's supporters and the DA agree her illness played a role in the fatal incident.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Serrano-Garcia was diagnosed with schizophrenia for the last three years of her life, according to her family and \u003ca href=\"#letter\">documents summarizing the San Mateo County district attorney's investigation of the shooting\u003c/a>. Both Serrano-Garcia's supporters and the DA agree her illness played a role in the fatal incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano-Garcia's brother, Lorenzo \"Anthony\" Garcia, called 911 shortly after 9:20 p.m. on June 3, seeking paramedics to help get his sister to take medication she had refused that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not really an emergency,\" he said. \"I'm calling because my sister has schizophrenia ... she's not taking the medications, she's acting out and she's yelling at my parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than 10 minutes later, Trieu fatally shot Serrano-Garcia in the torso after she chased him with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The whole incident plays out over the 13-minute recording of the 911 call below. The family's attorney said no internal edits to the audio had been made. KQED removed Lorenzo Garcia's phone number. The audio is graphic.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano-Garcia's family said Trieu escalated a situation that had started to calm down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sheriff and the sheriff's department does not care about the safety of mentally ill persons,\" said attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Serrano-Garcia's family in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe found the shooting was legally justified in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wagstaffe's Aug. 18 letter to Sheriff Greg Munks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The investigation into this shooting revealed that Ms. Serrano-Garcia suffered from schizophrenia. Her four year history with mental illness is well documented. It is undeniable that Ms. Serrano-Garcia's knife attack on the deputy was a product of her mental illness. Although Deputy Trieu was aware from dispatch that Ms. Serrano-Garcia suffered from mental illness, his life was no less in danger. The swiftness of her potentially lethal attack on the deputy precluded any possibility of handling the threat in a less lethal manner.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Casillas said Trieu created the danger by a cavalier response to the call. And he's doesn't believe that the approximately 6-inch blade Serrano-Garcia was chasing Trieu with was a lethal threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147295\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 335px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Knife.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Knife.jpg\" alt=\"The knife District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says Yanira Garcia-Serrano held while she chased San Mateo sheriff's Deputy Menh Trieu on June 3, 2014. 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There was no meaningful threat to the officer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney's letter said Trieu backed up but was unable to get away from Serrano-Garcia. Trieu didn't have time to pull his Taser, the letter says, and he wasn't sure it would work anyway because the teen was wearing a thick sweater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Mateo County Sheriff's Department directed inquiries about the lawsuit to the county counsel, John Beiers, who said in a written statement that the death was a tragedy. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is not really an emergency,\" he said. \"I'm calling because my sister has schizophrenia ... she's not taking the medications, she's acting out and she's yelling at my parents.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little more than 10 minutes later, Trieu fatally shot Serrano-Garcia in the torso after she chased him with a knife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The whole incident plays out over the 13-minute recording of the 911 call below. The family's attorney said no internal edits to the audio had been made. KQED removed Lorenzo Garcia's phone number. The audio is graphic.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serrano-Garcia's family said Trieu escalated a situation that had started to calm down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The sheriff and the sheriff's department does not care about the safety of mentally ill persons,\" said attorney Arnoldo Casillas, who is representing Serrano-Garcia's family in the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe found the shooting was legally justified in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Wagstaffe's Aug. 18 letter to Sheriff Greg Munks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The investigation into this shooting revealed that Ms. Serrano-Garcia suffered from schizophrenia. Her four year history with mental illness is well documented. It is undeniable that Ms. Serrano-Garcia's knife attack on the deputy was a product of her mental illness. Although Deputy Trieu was aware from dispatch that Ms. Serrano-Garcia suffered from mental illness, his life was no less in danger. The swiftness of her potentially lethal attack on the deputy precluded any possibility of handling the threat in a less lethal manner.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But Casillas said Trieu created the danger by a cavalier response to the call. And he's doesn't believe that the approximately 6-inch blade Serrano-Garcia was chasing Trieu with was a lethal threat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147295\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 335px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Knife.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Knife.jpg\" alt=\"The knife District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says Yanira Garcia-Serrano held while she chased San Mateo sheriff's Deputy Menh Trieu on June 3, 2014. 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(AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other morning on KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum\u003c/a>\" program, we invited listeners to call and write with ideas about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/listeners-weigh-in-what-stories-should-kqed-cover-in-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">what we ought to be covering\u003c/a> in the coming year. We got lots of ideas for coverage on health, technology, arts and culture, politics and the economics of living in this region. We also heard requests for coverage on science and environmental subjects, including this one from a caller named David:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would love to see some coverage of the radiation spread from Fukushima Daiichi. I feel woefully uninformed, and I've heard reports that the radiation releases could affect the whole West Coast, which seems extreme except I've been hearing things. Hearing what its impact is, both short term and long term, would be great.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, KQED has been getting questions for months about the West Coast impact from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/japans-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-they-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami\u003c/a>. The questions often appear to be prompted by claims made in blog posts like this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html\" target=\"_blank\">28 Signs That the West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried by Radiation from Fukushima\u003c/a> -- posts that appear to be long on hyperbole, alarmism and cherry-picked facts and short on data and reasoning. In response, one of our science editors came up with a letter (see the end of this post) that points to what we believe to give well informed and well researched sources of information on the local impact of Fukushima radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It’s pretty clear there’s nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted and fried by Fukushima radiation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The questions are still coming, stirred partly by concern over the impact of one of the world's most serious nuclear disasters and partly by the continuing stream of Internet \"evidence\" suggesting radiation from Fukushima is poisoning us and wreaking havoc on the environment. Just this week, for instance, there's this: Fishermen in Mexico discovered \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25663557\" target=\"_blank\">conjoined gray whale calves\u003c/a> off the Baja coast. That much is true, and from what early stories say, it could be the first time conjoined gray whales have ever been seen. But you don't have to go far to find reports like this, on a site called The Voice of Russia: \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_09/Two-headed-whale-found-in-Mexico-is-Fukushima-radiation-to-be-blamed-8583/\" target=\"_blank\">Two-headed whale found in Mexico. Is Fukushima radiation responsible?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? Who said anything about a two-headed whale? Or Fukushima? The question in the headline is sensational and leading, and the answer the piece gives is of the \"no one knows — but it \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be!\" variety. (For a more sober take, check Slate: \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/3rf9c6jt\" target=\"-blank\">No, That Conjoined Whale Calf Was Not Caused by Fukushima\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Video From Surfer's Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest recent Net-enabled Fukushima shocker originated in our own backyard. It came by way of a YouTube video shot near Half Moon Bay and posted just before Christmas. From there it has gone viral. (Here's one version, possibly the original judging from the traffic it's gotten, though it misidentifies the location as Pacifica State Beach: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Hits San Francisco\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly does the 7½-minute video show?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It features a man visiting the beach with a Geiger counter, a device that detects the presence of radioactive material (here's \u003ca href=\"http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~nick/geiger/\" target=\"_blank\">one simple description\u003c/a> of a counter and what it measures). Typically, a Geiger counter emits a clicking sound when it counts a radioactive particle and gives a readout of \"counts per minute\" (CPM), the rate of radioactive particles it's detecting. The higher the CPM, the higher the radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Surfer's Beach video begins in a parking lot, and the Geiger counter shows what's considered to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">a normal background level of radiation\u003c/a>, about 30 CPM. But when the man holding the counter walks down to the sand, the level jumps and tops out at 156. The man, identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.rense.com/general96/radiationoncabch.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere\u003c/a> as \"Dave,\" says: \"And so the width of the sand pretty much the length of this particular beach it looks like is contaminated at least three times over (background radiation levels).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's Radiation — But Not From Fukushima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has prompted public health officials to look at what's going on at Surfer's Beach. As several local media outlets have reported, both county and state health officials are saying the radiation probably has a natural, local origin. Here's David Perlman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php\" target=\"_blank\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, who wrote that tests of sand from the beach \"show that the radiation has come from natural sources — most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.\" The story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima,\" the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,\" it said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mark Noack of the Half Moon Bay Review \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbreview.com/news/experts-say-beach-radiation-unrelated-to-fukushima/article_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">has also been reporting\u003c/a> on the video and on what's causing the radiation readings on Surfer's Beach. One of the people he's talked to is Steve Weiss, a Geiger counter designer who lives near the beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Monday, Weiss carried a Geiger counter in each hand for a second survey of Surfer's Beach. As he descended to the waterline, the readings on his gadgets climbed. He tested various spots: the side of the bluffs and the white sand closest to the waterline, both registering levels that were high but not suspiciously so as far as he was concerned. But when he placed the sensors down near a line of black silt along the back of the beach, the meters on both his gadgets spiked. The counters registered about 415 counts per minute. A cpm of 30 is considered the baseline for radioactivity typically found in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss is no amateur; for 40 years he has made a living designing Geiger counters, most recently for International Medcom Inc. After he verified the hots pot, he took a sample of the dark sediment and sent it to his company's main offices in Sebastopol for analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The company's CEO, Dan Sythe, analyzed the samples. He reported on his own blog, \u003ca href=\"http://geigercounter.com/california-beach-radiation-fukushima/\" target=\"_blank\">Geiger Counter Bulletin,\u003c/a> that the radiation in the sand emanated from radium and thorium — \"naturally occurring radioactive materials\" — not from the cesium isotope that would show it to have come from Fukushima. Sythe characterized the radiation level as \"elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.\" And he said the actual source of the Surfer's Beach material still merits investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, what's the takeaway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the \u003cem>long-term\u003c/em> impact of Fukushima is understandable. The disaster is akin to an ongoing experiment that will be teaching us about radiation's impacts for many years to come. At the same time, it's pretty clear there's nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted or fried by Fukushima radiation. For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net, and look for context and confirmation for any and all claims. We don't exempt our own offerings from that advice either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* * *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the letter we've sent to listeners and readers who have asked for information about the impact of Fukushima radiation on the West Coast:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Thank you for being a KQED listener and for your email regarding Internet buzz about ocean contamination from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Information on the Internet that claims that the tsunami debris near the West Coast is radioactive, or that huge plumes of nuclear water are heading for the West Coast, or that fish here are carrying dangerously high levels of radiation, is false. These claims are unsubstantiated and not supported by scientists who have studied the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d recommend reading this information — \u003ca href=\"http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=83397&tid=3622&cid=94989\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation \u003c/a>— from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, one of the world’s leading marine science organizations. The writer, Ken Buesseler, organized the first comprehensive study of the spread of radionuclides from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. He gained expertise on the topic when he studied the spread of radionuclides from Chernobyl into the Black Sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, here is a post on a website run by marine scientists that addresses each of the concerns that have arisen on several sensationalistic and misleading websites and explains why they are inaccurate: \u003ca href=\"http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=15903\" target=\"_blank\">28 fallacies about the Fukushima nuclear disaster’s effect on the U.S. West Coast\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, here is the Natural Resources Defense Council on the topic: \u003ca href=\"http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mmckinzie/fukushima_radiation_risks_from.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Risks from Eating Fish\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hope this explains why the KQED Science team hasn’t covered this topic. We do cover a range of topics concerning the ocean ecosystems and marine life off the coasts of Northern California, and would not ignore credible information concerning radiation poisoning in these waters.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_123104\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/09/a-dose-of-straight-talk-on-fukushima-radiation-rumors/rs6220_175721355-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123104\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-123104\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS6220_175721355-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese government officials and nuclear experts inspect work at the badly damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. (AFP-Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The other morning on KQED's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/\" target=\"_blank\">Forum\u003c/a>\" program, we invited listeners to call and write with ideas about \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/07/listeners-weigh-in-what-stories-should-kqed-cover-in-2014/\" target=\"_blank\">what we ought to be covering\u003c/a> in the coming year. We got lots of ideas for coverage on health, technology, arts and culture, politics and the economics of living in this region. We also heard requests for coverage on science and environmental subjects, including this one from a caller named David:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I would love to see some coverage of the radiation spread from Fukushima Daiichi. I feel woefully uninformed, and I've heard reports that the radiation releases could affect the whole West Coast, which seems extreme except I've been hearing things. Hearing what its impact is, both short term and long term, would be great.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In fact, KQED has been getting questions for months about the West Coast impact from the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that followed \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/03/japans-earthquake-and-tsunami-how-they-happened.html\" target=\"_blank\">Japan's 2011 earthquake and tsunami\u003c/a>. The questions often appear to be prompted by claims made in blog posts like this: \u003ca href=\"http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/28-signs-that-west-coast-is-being.html\" target=\"_blank\">28 Signs That the West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried by Radiation from Fukushima\u003c/a> -- posts that appear to be long on hyperbole, alarmism and cherry-picked facts and short on data and reasoning. In response, one of our science editors came up with a letter (see the end of this post) that points to what we believe to give well informed and well researched sources of information on the local impact of Fukushima radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">It’s pretty clear there’s nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted and fried by Fukushima radiation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The questions are still coming, stirred partly by concern over the impact of one of the world's most serious nuclear disasters and partly by the continuing stream of Internet \"evidence\" suggesting radiation from Fukushima is poisoning us and wreaking havoc on the environment. Just this week, for instance, there's this: Fishermen in Mexico discovered \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25663557\" target=\"_blank\">conjoined gray whale calves\u003c/a> off the Baja coast. That much is true, and from what early stories say, it could be the first time conjoined gray whales have ever been seen. But you don't have to go far to find reports like this, on a site called The Voice of Russia: \u003ca href=\"http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_09/Two-headed-whale-found-in-Mexico-is-Fukushima-radiation-to-be-blamed-8583/\" target=\"_blank\">Two-headed whale found in Mexico. Is Fukushima radiation responsible?\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huh? Who said anything about a two-headed whale? Or Fukushima? The question in the headline is sensational and leading, and the answer the piece gives is of the \"no one knows — but it \u003cem>could\u003c/em> be!\" variety. (For a more sober take, check Slate: \u003ca href=\"http://bcove.me/3rf9c6jt\" target=\"-blank\">No, That Conjoined Whale Calf Was Not Caused by Fukushima\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Video From Surfer's Beach\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest recent Net-enabled Fukushima shocker originated in our own backyard. It came by way of a YouTube video shot near Half Moon Bay and posted just before Christmas. From there it has gone viral. (Here's one version, possibly the original judging from the traffic it's gotten, though it misidentifies the location as Pacifica State Beach: \u003ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcQLxT49ZP0\" target=\"_blank\">Fukushima Radiation Hits San Francisco\u003c/a>?)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What exactly does the 7½-minute video show?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It features a man visiting the beach with a Geiger counter, a device that detects the presence of radioactive material (here's \u003ca href=\"http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~nick/geiger/\" target=\"_blank\">one simple description\u003c/a> of a counter and what it measures). Typically, a Geiger counter emits a clicking sound when it counts a radioactive particle and gives a readout of \"counts per minute\" (CPM), the rate of radioactive particles it's detecting. The higher the CPM, the higher the radiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Surfer's Beach video begins in a parking lot, and the Geiger counter shows what's considered to be \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html\" target=\"_blank\">a normal background level of radiation\u003c/a>, about 30 CPM. But when the man holding the counter walks down to the sand, the level jumps and tops out at 156. The man, identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.rense.com/general96/radiationoncabch.html\" target=\"_blank\">elsewhere\u003c/a> as \"Dave,\" says: \"And so the width of the sand pretty much the length of this particular beach it looks like is contaminated at least three times over (background radiation levels).\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There's Radiation — But Not From Fukushima\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The video has prompted public health officials to look at what's going on at Surfer's Beach. As several local media outlets have reported, both county and state health officials are saying the radiation probably has a natural, local origin. Here's David Perlman \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Coast-getting-little-radiation-from-Fukushima-5125645.php\" target=\"_blank\">in the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>, who wrote that tests of sand from the beach \"show that the radiation has come from natural sources — most probably from ancient rocks eroded in the bluffs above.\" The story continues:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"There is no public health risk at California beaches due to radioactivity related to events at Fukushima,\" the California Department of Public Health said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Recent tests by the San Mateo County Public Health Department show that elevated levels of radiation at Half Moon Bay are due to naturally occurring materials and not radioactivity associated with the Fukushima incident,\" it said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Mark Noack of the Half Moon Bay Review \u003ca href=\"http://www.hmbreview.com/news/experts-say-beach-radiation-unrelated-to-fukushima/article_d3bb5b14-77ea-11e3-a37b-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">has also been reporting\u003c/a> on the video and on what's causing the radiation readings on Surfer's Beach. One of the people he's talked to is Steve Weiss, a Geiger counter designer who lives near the beach:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On Monday, Weiss carried a Geiger counter in each hand for a second survey of Surfer's Beach. As he descended to the waterline, the readings on his gadgets climbed. He tested various spots: the side of the bluffs and the white sand closest to the waterline, both registering levels that were high but not suspiciously so as far as he was concerned. But when he placed the sensors down near a line of black silt along the back of the beach, the meters on both his gadgets spiked. The counters registered about 415 counts per minute. A cpm of 30 is considered the baseline for radioactivity typically found in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's not normal. I've never seen 400 cpm when I just wave my Geiger around.” he said. “There has to be something radioactive for it to do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weiss is no amateur; for 40 years he has made a living designing Geiger counters, most recently for International Medcom Inc. After he verified the hots pot, he took a sample of the dark sediment and sent it to his company's main offices in Sebastopol for analysis.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The company's CEO, Dan Sythe, analyzed the samples. He reported on his own blog, \u003ca href=\"http://geigercounter.com/california-beach-radiation-fukushima/\" target=\"_blank\">Geiger Counter Bulletin,\u003c/a> that the radiation in the sand emanated from radium and thorium — \"naturally occurring radioactive materials\" — not from the cesium isotope that would show it to have come from Fukushima. Sythe characterized the radiation level as \"elevated, but roughly equivalent to some granite counter top material from Brazil.\" And he said the actual source of the Surfer's Beach material still merits investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>So, what's the takeaway?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern over the \u003cem>long-term\u003c/em> impact of Fukushima is understandable. The disaster is akin to an ongoing experiment that will be teaching us about radiation's impacts for many years to come. At the same time, it's pretty clear there's nothing to the almost daily claims that the West Coast is being blasted, flooded, roasted or fried by Fukushima radiation. For the 10,000th time: Always be skeptical and questioning of what you read on the Net, and look for context and confirmation for any and all claims. We don't exempt our own offerings from that advice either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>* * *\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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