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FamMedRocks Podcast 6 & #FamMedChat

Thanks again to Chip Teel, MD - Family Physician and author of the book Alone And Invisible: Averting Disaster In Aging America. He was the guest on Family Medicine Rocks Podcast Number 6. We had a great conversation about how he came to find Family Medicine as a career, how he ended up in Maine following residency, and the origins of his passion to make sure older Americans are as indepenent as possible for as long as possible. (Also check out the video post above)

At the beginning of the interview, Dr. Teel was very nervous. But, if you stick with the show, towards the end of the interview, the people in the live chat room really remarked about hearing the passion in his voice as he told some stories about his patients and how they are living their lives independently and not in what they call a "typical nursing home setting." (You can also download the file from the show's iTunes page)

I also invite you to check out his site Full Circle America and to contact him via e-mail at Dr.Teel@FullCircleAmerica.com - to ask questions and to see how you can try to utilize some of these concepts where you live. There was even someone who called in and went after Dr. Teel a little bit (not really) - but it was good discussion in the midst of the show.

Finally, the first ever twitter chat for friends of Family Medicine called #FamMedChat took place during the end of the show. Shout out to Mark Ryan, Kevin Bernstein, and Pat Jonas for taking leadership roles to pull this together. Also shout out to Dana Lewis and #hcsm for being an inspiration for us. You can check out the archived #FamMedChat below. I even did a post chat session on ustream in which I got some good feedback on future chats. Thanks so much for all the support for the show and for the chat!

Question 1: How can Family Medicine expand our role in the care of an aging America? (as discussed on http://tinyurl.com/3un77qa) #FamMedChat

Question 2: What are you or your colleagues in Family Medicine doing to improve your care of elders?#FamMedChat

Question 3: With Family Medicine leadership, how might the patient-centered medical home #PCMH enhance care for America's elders? #FamMedChat 

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#FamMedRocks Podcast 6 Preview

Family Medicine Rocks podcast number 6 will feature Family Physician Dr. Chip Teel who is author of the book Alone and Invisible: Averting Disaster In Aging America. Dr. Teel is from Maine and there he has been an advocate for the best care for older Americans - to try to keep them as independent as possible with the use of technology. Check out his website called Full Circle America. Hope you can join us for the show which will be on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 8pm Eastern Daylight Time on BlogTalkRadio. If you cannot join us live, that's ok you can always listen to the archived show anytime on the show's BTR site.

I'm also very excited to announce that following the show, at approximately, 9pm Eastern Time, the first #FamMedChat will begin. Someone from the #FMRevolution twitter sphere will be starting things off. I'll be there as soon as I can. I have to be honest with you in that I have no idea about how this is going to turn out. One thing I'm certain about is that we're going to be having a good time.

If you're looking for a primer on what you need to know, check out this slideshare show to find out some valuable information. I encourage my #FamMedChat colleagues to leave advice, tips, and tricks down in the comment section - especially for our FamMed friends who may have never participated in a twitter chat before. A lot of things are coming to my mind, but I encourage my friends to help me out and leave some advice for the newbies below. Hope to see you Thursday for the podcast and for the chat!

#FamMedRocks 5 Wrap-up: Shrink Rap Book

Thanks again to the authors of the book Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work - Dinah Miller, MD; Ann Hanson, MD; and Steven Roy Daviss, MD. They were great guests on Family Medicine Rocks podcast number 5. We had a great conversation about the origins of the book, the process of editing/finalizing the book, and how they didn't kill each other during this process - Hehe.

The setup for the book is interesting that they wrote fictional characters to explain how psychiatric patients are taken care of. For example, since Steve takes care of hospital based patients, his section talked about that. Ann is a forensic psychiatrist and she tacked questions like "What's it like in a prison setting?" And, Dinah is in private practice and she talked about issues like "What it's like inside the walls of a psychiatrist office during an appointment."

Something that is great during shows like this is that fans of their blog and their podcast are able to call in as well. Thanks to Sarebear and to Emily, who care long time fans of the Shrink Rap blog, for calling into the show and chatting it up. The book is going to be released in June and they already have an amazon pre-order site. I also encourage you to become a friend of their facebook page. You can listen to the show below (apologize in advance for the pre-roll ad), or go to the iTunes page for the show and download it there. Finally, check out the video summary above. Have a great weekend everybody!

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#FamMedRocks Podcast 5

 

Join me for Family Medicine Rocks Podcast Number 5 on Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 7pm Eastern Daylight Time on BlogTalkRadio. My guests will be the authors of the upcoming book Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work. They authors are Dinah Miller, MD, Annette Hanson, MD, and Steven Roy Davis, MD.

According to the information on the facebook page for the book, the book will be answering the following questions: What is psychotherapy, how does it work, and why don't all psychiatrists do it? When are medications helpful? What happens on a psychiatric unit? Can Prozac make people suicidal? Why do many doctors not like Xanax? Why do we have an insanity defense? Why do people confess to crimes they didn't commit?

The book will be released on April 28, 2011. And, I think, that this is one of the first interviews that they will be doing about the upcoming book. They are also authors of The Shrink Rap blog. They started just a couple of months before I started the Doctor Anonymous blog back in 2006. And, in case you didn't know, they also produced 57 podcasts which they called "My Three Shrinks." 

Now, before they went big time, they were guests way back on October 18, 2007 on Doctor Anonymous Show Number 9 (apologize for the ad before the podcast below). Yes, this was in my early days as a podcaster. We had a great time. And, if you listen to the show below, you'll probably get a good idea of what will happen on Thursday night for the show. Hope to see you then!

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EMS Garage Ep 130

 

Thanks to Chris Montera, host of the EMS Garage podcast, for the invite to sit in on EMS Garage Episode 130 last week. You're probably wondering this - what is a family medicine doc doing hanging out on an EMS podcast? I was kind of wondering the same thing as well. However, as  you'll hear in this fabulous podcast, I held my own with this incredible panel. You would think that 7 people on a skype call would talk over one another. But, I have to say that I had a great time. One of the key topics was payment in healthcare and EMS. That's when the fireworks began. I invite you to listen to this fun, yet feisty show!

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Chip Teel Interview

 

The Family Medicine Rocks podcast proudly welcomes Dr. Chip Teel to the show on Thursday, April 21, 2011 live at 8pm Eastern Daylight Time. Dr. Teel is author of the book Alone and Invisible: Averting Disaster In Aging America. He is a champion of elder care and empowering older adults to maintain as much independence as they can at home.

He lives in Damariscotta, Maine and during his 25 year medical career there, he has worked with thousands of older patients in the hospital, at the nursing homes, in assisted living homes, and in their own homes. I also invite you to check out his website called Full Circle America. This site offers "The Maine Approach" to support elders living in the comfort of their homes and in living their lives to the fullest using technology, social networking, life management, and expansive volunteering.

My thanks to the Family Medicine Education Consortium for helping to promote this particular show. If you have questions for Dr. Teel, I encourage you to click the contact button above and to place your question there. I'll do my best to get your question answered. You can also join the show live on BlogTalkRadio.com. There is a live chat room that occurs during the show, but to be able to type in the chat room, you have to register on the BlogTalkRadio site.

So, I invite you to join the live recording of the Family Medicine Rocks podcast with guest Dr. Chip Teel which will take place on Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 8pm Eastern Daylight Time.  For those new to the show, there is a live chat room and also a live web cam to see me do the show live during the show. Hope to see you on April 21st!

#FamMedRocks Podcast 4 Tonight

 

 

I invite you to join me tonight for Family Medicine Rocks podcast number four tonight. It will be recorded live from 8:00-8:30pmET tonight over at BlogTalkRadio.com. I'm going to be talking about a bunch of things including two articles from the past week:

 In addition, I'll be wrapping up a couple of meetings I was at last week including the Ohio State Medical Association Practice Symposium where I talked about physicians and social media. I'll also mention my experience at HealthCamp Connecticut which took place over at the Yale School of Nursing. I recorded some audio interviews from those meetings which I'll play during the show.

Finally on the episode 4, I'm going to give a shout out to my good friend and long time fan T-Rave from Kansas City. We have known each other out there on the internet for a long time. We actually met in person once, and that was a blast. He has this very interesting social media project called "Content: The New Drug" that he will be working on in Taiwan for three months starting in May. His video is below.

I encourage you to check out his "new drug." Hope to see you for Episode 4 of the Family Medicine Rocks podcast tonight! If you cannot listen live, that's ok. You can always listen later to the archived podcast. Hope you're having a great week!

 

 

 

 

Grand Rounds over at Emergiblog

 

Grand Rounds 7.28 is now up and running over at Emergiblog. The theme is many people obsession called "Angry Birds." Thanks to Kim for including my post this week...

Hey, Mike Sevilla went to nursing school! Okay, he actually went to the initial HealthCamp 2011 held at Yale School of Nursing. He gives us his impressions in HealthCamp Yale 2011 Wrap Up over at Family Medicine Rocks.

In case you're not familiar, Grand Rounds is the best medically related blog posts of the week that moves to different blogs every week. Get more information over at Better Health. Don't forget to follow @GrandRounds on twitter and to "Like" the GrandRounds facebook page. Hope you're having a great week everybody!

#OSMA2011 Wrap Up Report

Thanks again to the Ohio State Medical Association for the opportunity to speak at their Practice Management Symposium just a few days ago. (The official wrap up report is on the OSMA website.) I spoke on the topic of physicians and social media. There was an audio recording of my talk. And when they make it available to me, I'll figure out a way to share it with all of you. In addition, I invite you to check out my video interview above which was recorded just minutes following my talk. Thanks to all of you who have already viewed it, because my interview easily has almost 10 times as many views as any other video that they released from the event.

The Ohio State Medical Association has been a leader in social media guidance in that they have a tool kit and a set of guidelines for physicians to use when interacting with social media. I invite you to check it out by clicking here. Following my talk, I even got to speak with some staff members from the OSMA and I'm excited that they are thinking about taking more steps into the social media world. They already have an active twitter and facebook page. Hopefully, there will be more social media involvement in the months to come. As I said during my talk, I feel strongly that physicians (and also physician organizations) need to have more of a presence on social media than what is happening now.

A fun part I got to do during the conference was the opportunity to record a couple of audio interviews during the meeting. I'll play these interviews during my next Family Medicine Rocks podcast coming up this week. One interview was with Dr. Pat Jonas who is a Family Physician in the Dayton, Ohio area (BTW, it is Dr. Jonas' birthday today!). He has the Dr Synonymous blog and the Dr Synonymous radio show on BlogTalkRadio. I also had the opportunity to speak with Jason Koma who is the Director of Communications at the OSMA. We chatted about the OSMA social media tool kit, the social media guidelines, and the OSMA House of Delegates meeting which just took place this weekend.