Recorded April 30, 2020.Dr. O’Connell is joined by Dr. Rachel Friedman to discuss the role of Primary Care Physicians during the coronavirus pandemic and how the wildfires in California have helped prepare the healthcare industry in the area.Questions from this episode include:You are a practicing family physician and medical educator. Can you give our audience your perspective on the COVID pandemic?How do you see the role of a primary care physician regarding community health, both inside and outside the clinic?The COVID pandemic has highlighted social inequities and disparities which lead to disparities in health outcomes. Can you take us through this idea, including how even social distancing is a privilege?Your host is Dr. Ted O’Connell, family physician, educator, and author of numerous textbooks and peer-reviewed articles. He holds academic appointments at UCSF, UC Davis, and Drexel University's medical schools and also founded the Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano Community Medicine and Global Health Fellowship, the first program in the U.S. to formally combine both community medicine and global health. Follow Ted on Instagram (@tedoconnellmd) and Twitter (@tedoconnell)! Dr. Rachel Summer Claire Friedman is a family physician, mom of 2, musician, juggler of many things, and self-described visioneer.Dr. Friedman currently practices full scope outpatient family medicine in Sonoma County. She is among the founding faculty and Associate Program Director of the Family Medicine residency program at Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa, where she teaches both medical students and residents, and has been involved in the creation of an innovative 3 year curriculum designed to train family physicians for the future of medicine and community practice. She also serves as an assistant clinical professor in the UC San Francisco Department of Family and Community Medicine.  Dr. Friedman received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University with high honors in History of Science, and her medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine, where she also received a Masters in Health Science and completed published research on the electrophysiologic effects of relaxation techniques. While at Yale she co-founded CAM@Yale, a multidisciplinary group offering education on evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. Dr. Friedman completed family medicine residency at the UCSF-affiliated Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency, where she also completed an Integrative Medicine Fellowship.  She has been recognized as a leader in the field of family medicine as a Pisacano Leadership Foundation Scholar.  Dr. Friedman has edited medical textbooks, written peer-reviewed journal articles, and been invited to speak locally and nationally on topics such as clinical nutrition, innovations in technology, preventive approaches to disaster medicine, and implicit bias and health disparities.  One of her achievements to date as a musician-physician was co-authoring and performing in a full-length educational 80’s rock opera called Diabetes: The Musical. She is currently conducting research on a patient-centered approach to graduate medical education, the role of implicit bias in performance evaluation, and how virtual medicine/telehealth might mitigate the negative impact of disasters on chronic disease management in vulnerable populations.  Rachel is @serendipidoc on Twitter.Links for This Episode:Undocufundhttp://undocufund.org@UndocuFundSubmit Your Questions for the PodcastSend an email to [email protected] or check out covidpodcast.comWhat Can You Do? You can help spread commonsense about COVID-19 by supporting this podcast. Hit subscribe, leave a positive review, and share it with your friends especially on social media. We can each do our part to ensure that scientifically accurate information about the pandemic spreads faster than rumors or fears. Remember to be vigilant, but remain calm. For the most trusted and real time information on COVID-19 and the coronavirus pandemic, both the CDC and WHO have dedicated web pages to keep the public informed. The information presented in this podcast is intended for educational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. Producers: Madison Linden and Christopher Breitigan. Executive Producer: Patrick C. Beeman, MD