Dr. Wendy Scinta talks about her work as a family-medicine-trained obesity medicine specialist. She is the immediate past president of the Obesity Medicine Association. Her book about combating and treating childhood obesity, BOUNCE, is available now! Enjoy!

The great Dr. Dow joins me on the Primary Care Podcast to talk extensively about her field of pediatric medicine. She spoke passionately about her several different careers within pediatrics and other topics in medicine and children’s literature, as well. We cover pediatric emergency medicine, primary care, and her post-clinical career teaching medical students and creating children’s literature. Enjoy it!

Dr. Michelle Tollefson is an OBGYN and a fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also a breast cancer survivor.   

Hear her talk about:  

- implementing change to medical curricula to include more evidence-based lifestyle medicine

- many elements of health and wellness having to do with the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine  

- statistics on chronic disease

- opportunities for students to get involved in Lifestyle Medicine

- Listener questions regarding exercise, mental health, menstruation, and menopause

- and a lot more!

Mark Andersen-Nissen is a doctor of physical therapy and a passionate advocate for his field. In this episode of the Primary Care Podcast, we discuss Dr. Mark’s work as a physical therapist and how he experiences his profession’s relationship with primary care medicine. Really good stuff here. Enjoy. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review!

Part 2 of my talk with David Gordon, MD where we focus on his practice using cannabis as medicine. He talks risk and benefit, uses, misconceptions, and what the literature and research say on the topic of cannabis medicine. We take listener questions at the end. Spread the word. Tell a friend who you think might enjoy this show. Thanks. Enjoy.

Dr. Gordon tells his story and journey through internal medicine residency in Colorado and breaks down his methods of practicing root-cause medicine and treating/preventing chronic disease. Stay tuned for part 2 about cannabis medicine. Find Dr. Gordon at 4pillarsdenver.com

This episode features the amazing Beatriz Linn, MD telling the incredible story of her life. She talks about growing up in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, going to medical school in Medellín, almost getting kidnapped by guerrillas in the jungle during the Colombian drug trade of the late 1980s, coming to the US and training as an internist, and now practicing preventive medicine and teaching residents in Colorado. You’re going to enjoy this one.

We discuss her work in geriatrics. Dr. Palat is an internist and fellowship-trained geriatrician. She talks about the unique aspects of caring for an older population, her philosophy on aging well, her approach to care, and much more!

This is part 2 of my talk with Andreas Edrich, MD. We discuss his career in family medicine and how he got into addiction medicine. He talks about management of patients with addiction from a primary care perspective.

My conversation with Andreas Edrich, MD about his approach to mental health management as a family physician.