The Dr Synonymous Show

Health Care  blog review and discussion, starting with patient blogs, medical student blogs, physician blogs, health care non-physician blogs and Dr Synonymous blog.  Discussionincludes comments about past, present and future health care issues and system changes.  Human centering in health care and patient-physician relationships will be a component of reviews and interviews. Interviews with Fami...

Interview with a leader about Health Care Quality with Bill Johnson, PhD, hospital quality and systems management expert.  We'll review some current dilemmas, challenges and opportunities that relate to patients, doctors and hospitals in the area of quality and patient safety.  We'll talk about how to honor and protect patients during the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will incl...

Dr Synonymous will review patient blogs about weight loss, the Future of Family Medicine Blog, The American Family Physician Community Blog, the Singing Pen of Dr Jen blog and the Dr Synonymous Blog.  Further commentary includes Parrish Nurses and their programs, Insulin Resistance, Direct Primary Care and  the appointment of a non-physician to be the Army Surgeon General.  A Mother's Day comment...

 Dr. Synonymous reviews Dr. Fatty Finds Fitness to start the show, followed by The Future of Family Medicine blog which comments on historical physician practice models.  Then, we discuss Dr Kenny Lin's Common Sense Family Doctor which reflects on community health workers and their impact on care.  Dr. Jennifer Middleton relates through The Singing Pen of Dr Jen how to prepare for conferences to d...

Reviews of blogs by Family Medicine patients, students, faculty, physicians and thought leaders. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions. Dr S blog is the last one in the review: about complexity and simplicity in the working and caring during office encounters with patien...

Interviews with Family Medicine patients, students, faculty, physicians and thought leaders about how to honor and protect patients during the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spr...

Patient and Physician Blog Review starts the Dr Synonymous show. Then Dr Synonymous welcomes back Dr Tennyson Williams for continuing discussion of right brain and left brain issues that might shed light on who might make the better Family Physicians. We'll hear Dr Williams comment about photography, an area of his expertise, and how decision making in medicine compares to photographic decision ma...

After introduction and greeting, Dr Synonymous will review a patient blog. Then will interview Mark McDonnell, Commissioner of Health, Greene County, OH. Wuestions will include issues related to the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will include comments about dget implications in Greene County. Dr McDonnell will comment on what are the big challenges in Public Health. He will refl...

Dr S begins with a reflection on Viet Nam 40 years ago when he was a helicopter pilot for the Army engineers. Dewey Canyon II and Lam Son 719 were the combined US, ARVN (S. Vietnamese military) operations to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and prove to the world that ARVN troops were ready to defend their country. This would further enable the US to pursue peace and/or US exit. Dr S, then Cpt Jo...

Interviews with Family Medicine patients, students, faculty, physicians and thought leaders about how to honor and protect patients during the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spr...

Dr Synonymous interviews P. Tennyson Williams, MD who served as the founding Chairman, Department of Family Medicine for Ohio state University. Leaving a very successful private practice was a giant leap for Dr Williams who served as chairman for more than 17 years. He will discuss the process by which he decided to become an educator and his path to establishing the first University Department of...

Dr Synonymous greets listeners, gives show overview and disclaimer: We're not practicing medicine on the show, that must come from your own family doctor. A patient blog is reviewed from Sea Spray about pain control and the relationship with her urologist. Fog Be Gone by Penelope from Canada discusses her frustration about undiagnosed symptoms. She reviews Lyme Disease as a possibility, discussing...

Blog review of patients, doctors and medical students followed by a Tweet review off of Twitter. Other medical factoids will be included as time allows. Often, Dr S will comment about how we must protect patients and doctors during the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that he...

Dr Synonymous introduction and disclaimer followed by blog review: Dr Fatty Finds Fitness has a meaningful Valentine's Day post about loving self and others. The med students (Chris wrote this one) at The Future of Family Medicine blog wrote about primary care physician shortages, underserved areas, medical school admissions committees, loan forgiveness and how to get future med students who will...

After a disclaimer, Dr Synonymous reviews a blog post by Sea Spray in which she grieves her family doctor leaving. Marya Zilberberg, MD blogs about uncertainty in science in Healthcare, etc. Kenny Lin, MD blogs about unreasonable health screening that is wasteful and may become harmful in the Common Sense Family Doctor. Dr. James Hood, DDS, writes about Sjogren's syndrome with dry eyes and mouth a...

After comments about the ice and snow storms across the USA, Dr Synonymous reviews patient blogs. Five are nominated for Medblog Awards. # Best Patient's Blog: Brass and Ivory, Dean's Stroke Musings, Diabetes Mine, Dispatch From Second Base, Wheelchair Kamikaze. The Future of Family Medicine Blog by mdstudent31 writes about five recommendations for increasing primary medical care workforce in the...

Dr Synonymous starts with introduction from Beavercreek, OH and a disclaimer (we're not curing you tonight). He reads from a blog post by Grant McCracken, "Making Culture, Making Translations" about understanding each other. An important editorial in The Ohio Family Physician, by Tennyson Williams, MD, Founding Department Chair in Family Medicine at Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr wi...

Introduction including Dr Synonymous icy mishap with mail box. Patient blog review-Genetic Alliance- and discussion of use of the site. Dr Jonathan, 4th year med student in NYC, review of tweets and profile. Physician blogs: Kenny Lin, MD- two blogs, one about lung cancer screening, another about political influence in government's AHRQ. Dr Synonymous blogs: People Who are too Tough and "Call Us D...

Dr Synonymous reviews: The Positive Blog, The Common Sense Family Doctor, Volushent and two posts by Dr S, including one on illness in the doctor and one about Patient Pain and Patient Parts. Discussion emphasizes patient issues in family medicine with comments about daily family practice. More reference is made to The Glycemic Load Diet, a book by Rob Thompson,MD and Miracle Food Cures from the B...

Starting with a patient blog review, medical student blog review and physician blog reviews, Dr Synonymous will give some health tips. These include holistic advice from The Mind and the Brain, a book about OCD by Jeffrey Schwartz, MD. Dr S makes comments about the Ohio State Buckeyes who are playing the Arkansas Razor Backs in the Sugar Bowl during the Dr S Show. Go Bucks! Become a supporter of t...

We'll review some medical factoids, a patient blog and the Dr Synonymous Blog Post: Grief, Loss and Death at Christmas. We'll talk about personal DNA evaluation and about how to honor and protect patients during the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical...

Dr Synonymous reviews a patient blog:freshwidow.blogspot.com and her list of widow blogs. The Dr Synonymous Blog posts about the Human Centered Health Home will be reviewed. Discussions will include comments Christmas and the human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://ww...

Dr Synonymous starts with a patient blog post, then a medical student and/ or physician blog post followed by comments about one or two Dr S posts. We'll continue the review of insulin resistance, weight gain and pre-diabetes that was cut off on 11/30 show. Medical Dilemma Update will continue as the fog of Health Care Change moves in. Duck, Folks! Discussions will include comments about human asp...

Another update on the Human Centered Health Home(HCHH) and how to use the biopsychosocial model to analyze patient information in the HCHH. A clinical focused discussion about insulin resistance. Information about a patient blog, a physician blog and my blog of interest to patients, students, faculty, physicians and thought leaders. Reviewing ways to honor and protect patients during the massive c...

After introducing a patient blog and medical student blog, we review my blogs about "Could Curious George be a Family Physician?" and the Human Centered Health Home. We'll introduce some medical decision models in discussing the blogs. We'll discuss Family Medicine strategies for engagement with patients in the problem focused visit. Family Medicine patients, students, faculty, physicians and thou...