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News | Nov. 19, 2021

BAMC medic, family compete on Family Feud

By Lori Newman

One hundred percent of Brooke Army Medical Center staff surveyed said the Barrera family did a (blank) job on the Family Feud. Survey says? “Awesome!”

Army Spc. Gabriella Patlan, a mobile medic at the Virtual Medical Center at BAMC, competed with members of her family on the long-running game show for a five episode stint Nov. 9-15.

The road to the show was long. In fact, it took years.

“A few years ago, like 2016, my family sent in an audition tape to the show,” Patlan said. “They got called to do in-person auditions in Austin, but the show never called them back.”

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