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Dr Jack Galliford 2023-07-26 Person 5 5 0

Jack Galliford, or "Dr G" as I call him, is a total G. He has a can-do, positive mental attitude and is always, always on the side of his patient. I feel as though he completely understands the challenges that someone with a dual diagnosis - in my case bipolar disorder and polycystic kidney disease with resulting vascular complications - and is adept at pulling apart the various threads of whichever knotty problem is in front of him until it has gone away. As soon as he joined the team in Bristol he took me under his wing, and we immediately formed a strong therapeutic bond. Now that I am a dialysis patient I don't get to see him as often as I'd like, but I suppose it's a good sign that he is so busy nowadays. His bedside manner is wicked. He is extremely funny and has little time for the 'morons in charge', so he is a bit of a rebel. It takes one to know one, I guess. He, along with psych liaison, was the main impetus behind my relenting and finally agreeing to go on dialysis in the first place. I was having none of it, but he said, and I will never forget this: "Not dialysing will lead to a 'suboptimal clinical outcome' [death]. We would rather you stick around. We kind of like you." He often wears several hats at once - counsellor, social worker, advocate, teacher, healer - while never forgetting the person surrounding the transplanted organ. Like I said, a total G.