The Dr Synonymous Show

Dr Jonas, your host on the Dr Synonymous Show interviews Katherine Marian Babbitt MS4, WSU BSOM about the following subjects and more: How is medical school going? What is the most fun in med school? Where do you go next? What do you notice about the culture of medical practice during these years of transition? What are med students saying about their careers these days? Etc. Let's talk a bit about the people with hypermobility and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome since you did a special project about them when you had your Family Medicine clinical rotation with me. What is Ehlers Danlos Syndrome? What did your project entail? How has it impacted what you've done since the project? I have used the form several times with patients and in speaking to the Dayton Zebras last week. Etc., Etc. What's next for you through WSU BSOM? etc.? Thanks for being on the Dr Synonymous Show and good luck in your career.  

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After disclaimers and mentioning the coffee of the week, Dr Jonas, your host for the Dr Synonymous Show, will review a few salient points about B Vitamins enroute to Cysteine and Glutathione and NAC for better health. Tune in and join the chat.  Blogs and Tweets and Family Medicine update information rounds out the show.  

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Dr Jonas your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show will give the usual disclaimer about not practicing medicine on the show and wade   into the intense energy focused on October 1, 2015.  The blog and tweet review will reflect on numerous other authors.  The Ehlers Danlos support, the Dayton Zebras, will have a presentation by Dr. Jonas next Thursday night and he presents about NAC  next Wednesday morning at the BellHOP Cafe in Bellbrook. How do we survive the next wave of change in health care?  Direct Primary Care will be mentioned as one part of the solution. A mention of Liberty Health Share and Liberty Direct and Civic Health will be included as they are interesting companies with timely products.  Dr. J gets no money to mention them, by the way. The Dr Synonymous Blog will be reviewed somewhere in the show.  We'll have fun.  But starting late for several reasons. He will mention the dilemma about board certification decisions by near retirement physicians and others.

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Getting back to the roots of Family Medicine, Dr Jonas- the host of the Dr Synonymous Show, will expound on end of summer activities in one Family Medicine office.  Families in transition is a  common theme.  Teaching a Medical Student or a Family Nurse Practice student is another common office happening.  Listen in and we'll go over a few of our usual blogs and tweets.

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Dr Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show, will review the DPC Ohio "Unsummit" that was previewed on last week's show.  Lots of energy and ideas flowed as the enthusiastic participants shared their situations, dreams and plans.  The Presdent Elect of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians, Ryan Kauffman, MD announced his DPC leanings and represented the OAFP well with an update of OAFP DPC perspectives and acting as the "price police" fot our meeting.  He introduced the rules about prices being taboo and clarified, a couple times, the importance of the rules for fairness and protection of all involved in meetings and presentations. Dale Bellis, Executive Director of Liberty Direct was a well received participant who had a back end plan that's affordable and off the grid of ACA administered by Liberty Healthshare, a non-profit organization of Gospel Light Mennonite Church Medical Aid Plan, Inc. that is recognized by the US gov't as a healthcare sharing ministry, exempt from the ACA. Mike Strickland, MD, trained in the AtlasMD DPC system, and Ryan Kauffman, MD, soon to go to Brian Forrest, MD's bootcamp for DPC presented about "pure" DPC practice while Phil Whitecar, MD and Dr. Jonas presented about their hybrid practices in Beavercreek.  Will Sawyer, MD from Cincinnati, who operates a subscription practice in Cincinnati, reviewed the legislative situation in the nation and Ohio for DPC. We had fun.  Listen in and join the chat room to comment live. Dr Jonas will also add some comments and review the Dr. Synonymous blog about "Grain Gonads".

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Tonight Dr Jonas, your host on the Dr Synonymous Show, will review the upoming DPC Ohio "Unsummit" and comment on the state of flux in the healthcare system at the primary care level. Some Tweets and Blogs are waiting for Dr Synonymus to comment on them and Dr j will accommodate. Let's move ahead  with DPC.

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Tonight Dr Jonas discusses payment in health care.  Who pays and Who cares?  We'll go through the usual Twittere and Blog review with comments along the way. Is Direct Prmary Care really the answer to all the questions about payment reform in primary care? We'll peruse the updoming "Unsummit" in the Dayton area on the way through this show.  Tune in and join our chat room too.

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Dr Jonas will review numerous web sites, blogs and tweets about Direct Primary Care.  Join in the chat room to participate.  Radical innovation is needed to bypass the sludge in the Medical Industrial Complex that is bankrupting America, medicalizing life and numbing the practice of medicine into a series of "Meaningless Use" bonus-based medicine misguided quality initiatives.  Dr Synonymous is about understanding the human condition and how that applies to the practice of Family Medicine.  DPC is the way to go next to help the human condition to realign with the world of healthcare.

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I had a great time at West Point during the Reunion Weekend and I'll go through each element and spew happiness in this show about The West Point Glee Club Reunion and The Class of 2018 Buckner summer training graduation ceremony.  I was touched by the waythe Academy connected so many facets of soldiering and tradition into this ceremony, including a piece for the Class of 1968.  Join the chat room and comment.

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Dr Synonymous, aka Pat Jonas, MD- West Point Class of 1968, is travelling to West Point for a Glee Club Alumni Reunion (his third).  "I love these experiences.  The music is great, the people are great, the place is beautiful." Listen as Dr Jonas reviews the agenda for the weekend and reflets on his days in the West Point Glee Club, life as a cadet and after.  He'll  reflect on a few songs and a few Glee Club Memories.

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