The Dr Synonymous Show

Tonight Dr Jonas discusses payment in health care.  Who pays and Who cares?  We'll go through the usual Twittere and Blog review with comments along the way. Is Direct Prmary Care really the answer to all the questions about payment reform in primary care? We'll peruse the updoming "Unsummit" in the Dayton area on the way through this show.  Tune in and join our chat room too. Become a supporter o...

Dr Jonas will review numerous web sites, blogs and tweets about Direct Primary Care.  Join in the chat room to participate.  Radical innovation is needed to bypass the sludge in the Medical Industrial Complex that is bankrupting America, medicalizing life and numbing the practice of medicine into a series of "Meaningless Use" bonus-based medicine misguided quality initiatives.  Dr Synonymous is ab...

I had a great time at West Point during the Reunion Weekend and I'll go through each element and spew happiness in this show about The West Point Glee Club Reunion and The Class of 2018 Buckner summer training graduation ceremony.  I was touched by the waythe Academy connected so many facets of soldiering and tradition into this ceremony, including a piece for the Class of 1968.  Join the chat roo...

Dr Synonymous, aka Pat Jonas, MD- West Point Class of 1968, is travelling to West Point for a Glee Club Alumni Reunion (his third).  "I love these experiences.  The music is great, the people are great, the place is beautiful." Listen as Dr Jonas reviews the agenda for the weekend and reflets on his days in the West Point Glee Club, life as a cadet and after.  He'll  reflect on a few songs and a f...

Let's talk about Direct Primary Care for a while.  What's going to happen at the Third DPC Ohio "Unsummit"?  DPC is happening slowly but surely. Getting better and  better.  Are you Fed Up with getting the run-around in healthcare?  Do you want a doctor who will listen to you?  Do you want to step away from the annoying, artificial financial pressures of your insurance company? Maybe you should lo...

In this show Dr. Jonas, your host, will review a couple JAMA perspectives on Medical Marijuana and Recreational Marijuana and ED Drugs that may stimulate malignant melanoma.  Tweet and blog reviews follow, with the Dr Synonymous blog reviewed for a quick hit on Solutionists versus Inflictionists and a brief discussion.  Join the chat room. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.c...

How might we look at genomics in office practice in Family Medicine?  Dr. Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show, will dream a bit about what we are doing now and what might be. Responding to patients with painful situations is challenging in Family Medicine.  We love our  patients.  They hurt- we help.  But, their brain might get dysregulated by the pain via "wind-up" and potentially by opi...

The blogosphere is heating up for the next part of practice transformation.  Tweets are providing insightful connections.  The world of medical care is in a state of flux.  Can the Cleveland Caveliers win with limited players?  Can physicians win with limited insights and leadership?  Is Direct Primary Care  a useful pathway to realign part of the system? Are medical students ready to be citizens...

How did we get here in healthcare?  Through a series of small decisions, inadvertently leading to a disaster.  Patients no longer matter:  metrics do.  Value is about metrics.  Payment is about value.  Value is about "metricable" value, not patient and physician and societl values.  Dr Jonas your host will comment on this and refer to a blog post:The Devaluation of the Doctor  http://drelainageorg...

Dr Jonas, your host for the Dr Synonymous Show, will reflect on how much fun he has as a Family Physician.  He'll lament about some of the intrusions on the fun and note how Direct Primary Care and Volunteer (Free) Clinics counter the lamentable intrusions. Insights on Advance Care Planning from the BellHOP Cafe session on May 20th. Patients patients, patients.  The heart of Family Medicine is the...

  Whither the Family Medical History?  As a family fanatic in a "Families Only" practice, I love the FMH and use it daily- over and over again.  It's rich and useful and ever changing.  A JAMA Viewpoint will be the stimulus for my comments. Food:  It's killing us and saving us at the same time.  Get a fork! is one of my current dogmas.  Is it that simple?  No wheat. More nuts.  More forks.? I'm st...

Dr Jonas discusses Mary Ann Stone, RN and Faith Community Nurse whose God given vision, passion and drive led to the development of Open Arms Health Clinic (OAHC).  OAHC is a free clinic in Bellbrook, OH. Hospitals are funding football stadiums (probably from their foundation)  Should they offer to fund pastors, too?  Etc. with Tweets and blogs.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spr...

Dr Jonas will look at some blogs and tweets with an eye toward Fear.  Why do we fear?  Do we fear too much?  Not enough? In medicine, physicians are crawling into a corner opposite to responsibility.  We're aligned with entities that are bankrupting our patients and communities.  Will we speak up?  Will we act? A few happy comments will pop up in this show.  Sign into the chat room and state your...

Dr Jonas reflects on Ohio State Medical Association Annual Meeting very interesting this year.  He wonders why hospitals will spend millions of dollars to serve an ageing public by building a cancer hospital and not spend anything to train Family Physicians who would provide way more service to both ageing and young citizens.  Reflections abound in this "Just After the Free Clinic" broadcast.  Ple...

Dr Synonymous interiews Therese Zink, MD, MPH, Chair of Family Medicine at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine about her first year at WSU. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Dr. Jonas will review a fascinating Advanced Care Planning Symposium he attended at UD last weekend which included an introduction to a new proposed DNR form for Ohio (MOLST form).  Grief and loss is the topic of Dr Synonymous Blog this week.  Other blogs and tweets may be mentioned as the show moves along.  Listen in.  Join the chat room. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.c...

Weight problems and management will be the gist of our discussion tonight.  Blog and Tweet review will follow. Comments about medical student match for specialties will be included.  Tune in as Dr Jonas josts the Dr Synonymous Show. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Spring update by Dr Synonymous. Cholesterol guidelines have been balanced by coronary calcium scoring.  March Madness abounds.  Opiate deaths are up in 45-64 year-olds.  Blog, Tweet and Literature review by Dr Jonas, your host, will note a few current and past situations.  Brief comments on developing Ehlers Danlos checklist for family pnysicians and their patients.  Chat room available during liv...

Mark Clasen, MD, PhD is the Retired Chair of Family Medicine, Wright State University.  Dr Jonas will interview him about his career and his reflections on his years as Department Chair.  Dr Clasen has been in Academic Medicine in several states and decades, including time with the famous Arthur Guyton, PhD (of Guyton's Medical Physiology). Dr Jonas and Dr Clasen worked together at Ohio State and...

Literature, Tweet and blog Review by Dr Jonas, aka Dr Synonymous. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

A Holistic Family Physician, A. Patrick Jonas, MD, reviews and discusses blogs, tweets and current Family Medicine literature. Interviews will focus on human concerns of patients, friends and family physicians.   Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Blog, Tweet and Medical Literature Review with Dr Pat Jonas, a holistic Family Physician in Beavercreek, Ohio (Dayton). Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Dr Synonymous (Pat Jonas, MD) reviews blogs, tweets and the medical literature.  He is a Board-Certified Family Physician who is holistic minded and curious about the human condition. Listen in as he reflects on the health care system, Family Medicine and holistic health. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Dr Synonymous (Pat Jonas, MD) reviews blogs, tweets and the medical literature.  He is a Board-Certified Family Physician who is holistic minded and curious about the human condition. Listen in as he reflects on the health care system, Family Medicine and holistic health. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Dr Synonymous (Pat Jonas, MD) reviews blogs, tweets and the medical literature.  He is a Board-Certified Family Physician who is holistic minded and curious about the human condition. Listen in as he reflects on the health care system, Family Medicine and holistic health. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .