The Dr Synonymous Show

In this show Dr. Jonas reviews the nutrigenomics of a gene that impacts everyone regarding focus, attention, memory, personality, and other aspects of our brains and lives.  Thw worrier or the warrior gene.  You'll hear some things that relate to you, and your family and your friends and co-workers.

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We'll update our previous session with Doug Newton which was our February Chat with Dr. Pat, but didn't record well.   Doug is an integrative health coach among other skills that help people to enhance their health.   With increasing knowledge about epigenetics and moment by moment genomic “adjustments”, Ben Lynch, ND has authored a book titled, Dirty Genes.  In it he explains how to use our daily and leisure activities and food to improve the functioning of our genes.  It comes down to Wellness, which does have many definitions and approaches.  Doug Newton who most recently was Program Director for Wellness at WSU will provide a definition and expound on wellness for individuals, colleges, businesses and communities. Dr. Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show and Blog,  will comment on the book by Dr. Lynch and some genomic concepts that reaffirm what Doug is saying about Wellness.  #Wellomics might be coming next!

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Robert Lovegren, physicist, electronic engineer and health scholar is interviewed by Dr. Jonas, your host.  Bob has activated nutrition strategies that honor his brain and body down to the cellular level.  He is sensitive to the effects of his eating behaviors on his mitochondria and cellular apparatus.  He is not a fan of modern medicine, especially our tendency to make a case for treating everyone according to guidelines instead of individualizing care according to the best science available. We'll be talking about good fats, fasting, toxic substances, cells, brains, dogma, taste, weight, weight loss, uniqueness, etc. We should have some fun and get some ideas for individual action that may be healthful for many listeners.  Nothing in this show is intended to advise listeners about treating their diseases.  Those, as Dr. Jonas always says are best treated in the context of each person's relationship with their personal physician.

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Dr Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show, is a 1968 West Point graduate and Vietnam Veteran.  Listen to his reflections on over 50 years of service to the nation, from his Plebe Year to his 50th reunion last May.

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Dr. Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show will discuss strategies that may enable patients to be better heard by their physicians.  Physicians seem to have less and less time to engage patients.  This may be detrimental to quality in healthcare.  How might we get around this?  Dr. Jonas will engage those present about ways to get their story heard.  This will include some information about how doctors think and make decisions.  We will talk about some common problems and at least one rare disease- Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.  The EDS patients get rejected a lot by physicians before they finally get a diagnosis.  How can we get beyond these rejections in this era of opiate abuse and dependency in which patients with pain struggle to get it treated adequately?  The EDS patients might be the poster children for this quandary between pain and opiates.

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Sandra Miller, MD has created another medical adventure novel featuring Abigail Willmore, MD.  The second novel in this series (number 3 is almost complete) continues the story of Dr Willmore, who was successful at the Grand Canyon Clinic in Only Rock is Real, the inaugural book for Dr. Miller.  Read my post about the first book on my blog (including a link to the interview recording on the Dr. Synonymous Show). Now we find Abby (Dr. Willmore) agreeing to practice in the expanding Yellowstone National Park Clinic for the summer.  Dr Miller's vocabulary is up to the task of writing about the breathtaking scenery, from the heavens to the glaciers and volcanoes to the sunrises and sunsets to the tattoo of a snake, which she calls "Bitey", on the arm of the clinic nurse.  As a retired Family Physician and educator, her medical vocabulary adds to the sizzle when she describes human relationships, illness, bleeding, nausea, infection, immunizations, medical office processes, delusion, stalking, sexuality, professionalism and sexual assault.

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How are decisions made in medical care?  Dr. Synonymous (A. Patrick Jonas, MD) will interview Associate Professor Dan Jonas, MD, MPH about this subject on the Dr. Synonymous show June 14, 2018.  Dan teaches courses at the University of North Carolina to medical students, physicians and public health graduate students about analyzing the medical and other scientific literature.  Full disclosure:  He is my middle son.  I'm very pleased with how he has used his gifts and talents.  Dan will review his background.  What are the courses he teaches?  What excites the students?  What surprises them?  What is changing with time and technology?  We'll talk about studies- how big do they have to be to count?  Evidence:  What is it?  What is "Evidence based" and what isn't?  Patients role in medical decision making:  What is it?  What could it be?  Basic Science vs Clinical Science:  How do medical learners process information early and later in their careers?  Chronic disease care (management) versus acute illness care:  What are similarities and differences?  Public Health versus Personal Health:  What are some differences and similarities?  Quality:  What is it and who decides?  How is it measured and reported?  What is patient role in defining quality?  Electronic Medical Records:  Benefits and Harms (Remember principles of medical ethics and physician burnout)?  Common versus rare diseases:  How are they found, followed and treated?  Time management in clinical care versus clinical decision support (tools, etc.)?  Front lines versus ivory tower.  Direct Primary Care versus Usual Primary Care and other models:  How do we change?  How many studies are what level of quality?Genomics:  Quality studies?

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Dr. Jonas, your host for The Dr. Synonymous Show interviews Sandra Miller on January 21, 2018 about her delightful novel, Only Rock is Real.  The novel deftly combines a geographically and medically accurate setting with astronomy and dynamic human relationships to deliver a message about the life of a woman physician.  Yes, gender matters - to all of us - and Dr. Miller knows it.  She develops her characters and connects them to other characters and situations then sprinkles in the Grand Canyon, The Grand Canyon Clinic on the South Rim and the heavens.  Wow!  I loved the book.  I do want to visit the Grand Canyon as a result of reading her perspective about life, love and medical practice on the South Rim.   Snakebites, gunshot wounds, brawls, dehydration, heart attacks, grief reactions, pneumonia, coccidiodomycosis and more medical conditions are daily fare for Dr. Abby Willmore and her clinical boss, Dr. Pepper.  Jake Peterson, park ranger, spices up her life, which is clouded with a history of panic attacks and alcohol abuse (maybe self-treating the panic?).   For Discussion: How did you decide to write novels?  Why this subject matter? What is your geology background?  How did it change with your experience in the South Rim?  How about the same with your astronomy background and interests?  The tension among and between the characters in your book and the environment seems to work well, at least for me as a reader.  How do you decide on the tension levels and situations?   How long does it take to write a novel?  How many do you have going at once?  Or are they sequential?  With your thousands of patient experiences, how do you decide which types will be included in the books?  What about one of a kind experiences- how do you mask them in your writing? What else do you want the listeners to know about you or your work?

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Dr Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show, is delighted to get to interview Dr. Therese Zink again about her newest book, Mission Chechnya, a novel reflecting many of her insights about that area of the world and global health issues.  She will discuss the origin of the book, its background and her own, and her passion for writing and global health. The book starts with a birth in the airport bathroom and moves from there to provide perspectives  on health needs and issues in Chechyna through well described characters.  General questioning will include these type questions:  How did you come to be a book author? Are you a reader, too? How often do you write?  What's your schedule? Why this book? Why these characters? How do you decide on the depth of character development for these people?  I was impressed by the developmental detail of characters, situation, themes, etc. How should global health be addressed?  By whom? Once you're global, can you ever be local again? How does Wright State BSOM introduce and promote global health and global health service? How does a senior Family Medicine Scholar, Author, Leader operationalize global health interests/commitments? How much fun are you having? What's the process for promoting and selling books that you've authored? etc. etc   A chat room will be available for listeners to make comments during the interview.  We probably won't have time for call ins.

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