General Medicine and Primary Care

Retiring doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to discontinue the practice of medicine. Tune in as Dr. Leon Books shares his experience of practicing both nationally and internationally as a locum tenens physician after deciding to close his practice and travel the world.

In America, we spend over 2.6 trillion dollars on health care each year, yet we rank 37th in the world for health care outcomes. Speaking on this and other stark revelations of American healthcare is Dr. Ted Epperly, author of the Fractured: America's Broken Health Care System and What We Must Do to Heal it. In this discussion, Dr. Epperly draws on his decades of experience as a family physician to identify the system s gaps and disparities and propose a compelling strategy to mend them, with the goal of creating an integrated, accessible, patient-centered approach to health and medicine.

"There's no such thing as alternative medicine. There's only medicine that works and medicine that doesn't." This is a perspective shared by Dr. Paul Offit. In his book, Do You Believe in Magic? The Sense and Nonsense of Alternative Medicine, Dr. Offit offers a scathing exposé of the alternative medicine industry, revealing how popular therapies leverage efficacy via the placebo response despite being ineffective, expensive, and in some cases even deadly.

Hormone replacement therapy: it's a topic that comes up daily in many practices across the U.S, but what do we really know about personalized approaches to initiating HRT in menopausal women? Joining host Dr. Prathima Setty to shed new light on this important subject is Dr. Michelle Warren, founder and medical director of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders, and Women's Health in New York City. Dr. Warren is also a professor in the Department of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

Why do only 7-8% of medical school graduates nationwide choose Family Medicine, and what can be done on both micro and macro levels to counter this disparaging trend for primary care practice? Dr. Richard Young, Director of Research and Associate Program Director at the JPS Family Medicine Residency Program in Fort Worth, TX, discusses this issue in detail. Hosted by Dr. Brian McDonough.

Host Dr. Brian McDonough is joined by Susan Weiner, a dietician based in Long Island, NY and author of The Complete Diabetes Organizer: Your Guide to a Less Stressful and More Manageable Diabetes Life. Their discussion offers tips for clinicians to better help their patients with this chronic condition.

This week, Mark and Margaret speak with Dr. Chileshe Nkonde-Price, cardiologist and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/US Department of Veteran's Affairs Clinical Scholar. Dr. Nkonde-Price is creator of Change Your Step, a digital project to engage African American women to improve their cardiovascular health. She recently participated in a TEDMED Great Challenges webinar on addressing health disparities.

This interview recorded live at a Prova Education activity in New York City features Drs. Todd Kerwin and Sandeep Nathan as they discuss the Contemporary Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes. They will review treatment, management and prevention of secondary acute coronary syndromes in specific populations. This educational conversation delivers real-life discussion around the difficulties of managing a patient with acute coronary syndromes and overcoming barriers to optimal care.

Diabetes Highlights from ENDO, the 95th Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society. The Endocrine Society is the world's oldest, largest, and most active organization devoted to research on hormones and the clinical practice of endocrinology. In this program, you will hear from global thought leaders on the important role of diabetes in your practice, new technologies, emerging therapies and research.

Diabetes Diagnosis and Management is presented by The Endocrine Society and its Hormone Health Network. This annual workshop focuses on current issues in clinical diabetes management and provides state-of-the art updates. The complete Diabetes Diagnosis and Management recording is free on endosessions.org. To hear more from ENDO 2013, visit endosessions.org

Listen to hear these global thought leaders:

• Carol Wysham, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine, Spokane, WA provides an overview of the key presentations from this year's meeting
• Robert Eckel, MD, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO shares his research on the emerging cardiovascular disease risk factors
• Edmond Ryan, MD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada discusses the screening and diagnosing of gestational diabetes
• Steven Kahn, MB, ChB, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, reviews the relationship of …

Autism Spectrum Disorders have major impacts on three important building blocks of an individual's social skills: interactions, communications, and interests. Joining host Paul Rokuskie to discuss methods that clinicians can use to address socialization challenges with autistic patients is Carol Gray, Director of The Gray Center for Social Learning and Understanding in Grandville, Michigan.