About

I'M JOSEPH POLLINO, PA-C

Before I ever wrote a prescription, I zipped body bags.

As a Deputy Coroner, I investigated deaths that never should have happened — people who delayed care because they couldn't afford it, who rationed medications, who chose between rent and their prescriptions. I've seen where the system fails. I've held the consequences.

That experience led me to medicine. I graduated with honors from the University of Washington School of Medicine MEDEX, delivered the commencement speech, and built a primary care practice in rural Nevada where I now serve my community every day.

But the exam room isn't enough.

Every week, I watch insured patients make impossible choices — skip the scan, split the pills, pray the symptoms go away. I call it functional uninsurance: having coverage that doesn't actually cover you when it counts.

I started The Frontline PA because someone on the inside needs to say what we all see but can't say out loud. My work has been featured in the LA Times, NBC News, and Becker's Healthcare Podcast — not because I have all the answers, but because I refuse to look away from the questions."

Healthcare, unfiltered. That's what I'm here for.

10+

YEARS IN HEALTHCARE

UW '19 · COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER