Interview with Tom Leaman, MD Founding Chair Department of Family and Community Medicine M S Hershey Med Ctr Penn State University in Hershey, PA. We'll talk about how a new medical school and university hospital was started in Hershey, PA and how the Dept of F & CM was the first department with the first residency program in the hsopital. Dr Leaman will speak of the people and the era that pioneered the vision for his department. We'll hear of the importance of patients, students, faculty, physicians and the surrounding community in the development of the Hershey Medical Center and tom's Department. Dr Synonymous trained there, so nostalgia may spew a bit. Tom will mention thought leaders who helped to develop family medicine education, including F. Marion Bishop. He'll speak of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine and his presidency of that important organization. He'll speak of what it means to be a family physician. You'll love Tom and his vision which worked!

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After traditional opening comments about patient and physician blogs, followed by medical factoids, Dr Synonymous introduces our special guest Ken Bertka, MD. Dr Bertka is one of the hard workers in Family Medicine. He just finished service on the AAFP Board of Directors and continues a decades long influential relationship with the Ohio AFP, including service as President and Delegate to the AAFP Congress of Delegates. Ken loved his role as co-editor of the Core Content Review of Family Medicine which has been a leader in CME for family doctors for over 40 years. You'll enjoy hearing of Ken's work in Toledo covering a vast array of family medicine positions and continuing patient care. He's an EMR expert and an entertainer. Ken is a role model for fathers and husbands, demonstrating a commitment to family and marriage even more focused than his medical career work. We'll have fun with a discussion about family and Family Medicine. And always we talk about how to honor and protect patients during the massive change coming in health care,including mention of the patient- physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps with clinical and human decisions.

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Innovation is our middle name in Family Medicine, as evidenced by many of the presentations at the Health Care Innovators Network at the FMEC NE 2010 meeting in Hershey, PA. Elder Power with "Freedom at Home Packages" that use high tech and high touch methods, enable seniors to stay at home longer instead of going into assisted living or extended care nursing homes. "Seven Dollars Can Change Lives" relates to insurance premium discounts for employees of a P&G site in PA. The Patient Broadcast Network delivers info to pts in FM offices to educate and motivate. Patient blog and doctor blogs about health and illness are included. Honors to Dayton, OH for being the worst allergy city in America! The "Hershey Conversation" has furthered the movement of Family Medicine to recapture a central role in patient care. We'll also talk about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions.

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Dr Synonymous will be mentioning the upcoming Family Medicine Education Consortium NE Regional Meeting. This meeting for medical students, residents, faculty and practicing physicians focuses on the issues of importance in enhancing the pipeline of family physicians who intend to serve patients. We look at blogs from patients, physicians and Dr Synonymous to generate insights about where we are and shere we're headed in family medical practice. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions. All of these issues will be dealth with at the FMEC Annual NE Regional Meeting in Hershey, PA. 10/29-31.

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How do we redirect what's right and good about health care to best serve our patients during the massive change coming in health care payment? Dr. Synonymous will review patient online social media and physician online social media including blogs, tweets and medical literature to focus a few thoughts about where we are and where we might go. Emphasis will include the healthcare workforce pipeline, diagnosing and treating depression in primary care, placebos, and "the Health Care Rule Book. Dr Sarah Sams, the "quilting doctor", President of Ohio AFP will call in for comments about the OAFP. Dr. Synonymous will mention three books of interest and may comment about hand washing again. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions.

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Interviews with Family Nurse Practitioner, Dr. Catherine Johnson is continued. We'll hear about the FNP program she's starting in Columbus, OH. She and Dr Synonymous will discuss the AAFP proposal to study the studies about FNP's. Dr S. will reflect on FNP's from his training days in Hershey, PA to current practice in Beavercreek, OH. Education, training and teamwork are aspects of this discussion. We'll mention the PCMH and the future of primary care. Chat room welcomes all comers with germane comments. How do we continue to honor and protect patients during the massive change coming in health care. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician, patient-nurse practitioner and nurse practitioner-physician relationships and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical teamwork and human decisions.

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Dr Synonymous will review a patient blog (Dr. Fatty Finds Fitness), a physician blog, including AFP Community Blog on cultural competence, and his blog about connecting patients and physicians in the Human Centered Health Home. He will discuss web sites he recommends to patients, especially www.lef.org for vitamin, mineral and supplement information. He will mention the nutraceuticals that he tends to recommend for patients. Dr S. will mention literature that may help patients with brain problems such as OCD. He will reflect on his personal physician as an adolescent and early adult. He will mention the AAFP meeting briefly and review some medical factoids as time permits. Join us in the chat room or as a podcast listener on Blog Talk Radio. Discussions will include comments about human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions.

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Interview with Family Nurse Practitioner, Educator, Leader Catherine Johnson, FNP, PhD. We review her fascinating career, current position with Mount Carmel where she is developing a nurse practitioner training program, and the future. How are nurse practitioners connecting into the health care changing system? How will they be positioned as primary care providers? What will be the health care team in the PCMH? What does she think of the HCHH? How can physicians and nurse practitioners honor and protect patients and each other during the massive change coming in health care? Also comments about human aspects of patient-practitioner relationship and socio-technical innovation that helps them in clinical and human decisions. Leading off with fifteen minutes of Dr Synonymous overview of patient and doctor social media sites and medical "factoids" of interest.

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After 7 minutes of technical difficulty/silence, Dr. Synonymous will review a patient blog, a physician blog (AFP Community blog by Kenny Lin) and some interesting medical progress, including the rebuttal to the JUPITER study by Dr.'s Kopes-Kerr and Ebell (family medicine authors and editors) and innovation. He will reflect on his West Point training about Military Leadership and focus on the Nine Principles of War, U S Army. He will discuss how the principles may apply to family medicine for decision support in this time of massive change, especially in support of the PCMH and Direct Primary Care. The importance of being on the Offensive will be emphasized by Dr S. Comments also will include reference to human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation via social media that helps them in policy, leadership, clinical and human decisions.

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Interview with Larry Bauer, MSW, MEd a Family Medicine educator and thought leader. Mr Bauer will discuss his career, the Family Medicine Education Consortium, Inc and its upoming meeting in Hershey, PA., and innovation in family medicine and training of family physicians. What causes hundreds of medical students to attend the FMEC meeting year after year. What causes residents and faculty to continue to value the FMEC in numerous ways. During this time of massive change in health care, Mr Bauer has a vision of what is and what might be. Discussion will include comments about the historical voices in Family Medicine such as Tom Leaman, MD and Nick Zirvanos, MD that Mr Bauer has used to remain continuously aware. Larry has influenced the careers of thousands of physicians and faculty, which we'll also discuss.

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