Family Medicine: Realigning with Our Heart

OK, Family Medicine Folks,

Are we out of alignment with our heart?

Are we too busy and corporate and overly focused on the latest "quality" initiative or organizational certification to feel the human needs of our patients?

Have the coders and other numerati moved us into numb numbers mode?

Are we still validating our patients humanity and honoring them for their struggles and successes or has their BMI or  HGBA1c overshadowed their worth (via the EMR)?

Are we relating through our relationship based specialty through our heart to those of our patients?

Are we loving, honoring and praising the quest of the person we see in the mirror- the quest of a Family Physician?

Rise up, Family Medicine!

Let's refresh and reclaim our heart.

What do you feel?  See?  Think? about our heart?

Didgeridoo Hullabaloo Session Three at the BellHOP Cafe

Join us at 8:15 AM (yes, AM) on Saturday March 9th, 2013 for the third session of the Didgeridoo Hullabaloo at the BellHOP Cafe in Bellbrook, OH.

Bring your own didge or use one of our extras (2 or 3) to make beautiful sounds (OK, some of them sound like a dying cow) and tone your throat into ex-snorer territory.

Immediately after our droning, at 9 AM, Dr Synonymous will broadcast Whole-Hearted Health on the BlogTalk Radio Show of the same name (Dr Synonymous).  The broadcast remains as a podcast on BTR and ITunes for later listening.

Join us for fun and great coffee/breakfast at the BellHOP!

Session Outline:

Didgeridoo Hullabaloo Session Three at the BellHOP Café March 9, 2013

Introductions Dr Synonymous (Pat), Group Members, Guests

Disclaimer

Warm-up

Sweet Spot

The drone “raspberry”, “raspberry with smile”, spitting seed

A-E-I-O-U

Dah Dah Dah

Tah Tah Tah

Duh Dah Duh Dah Duh

30 second  drone?

Circular Breathing cup of water & straw

One minute performance:  Group  Drone- A-E-I-O-U- Ah as adjusted by the group spark

Rhythm practice solo and w/ partner

Online options

Closing

Whole-Hearted Health with the Dr Synonymous Show at the BellHOP Cafe

Saturday March 9th, Dr Synonymous will broadcast at 9 AM from the BellHOP Cafe in Bellbrook, Ohio again. 

The Dr Synonymous Show on Blog Talk Radio

The subject is Whole-Hearted Health.

The presentation will engage a live audience about medical, natural and supernatural strategies for healthy hearts.

Holistic Strategies for Healthy Hearts to be discussed or mentioned include:

Medical Practices and entire Systems of Practice (TCM, Ayurveda, etc.)

Natural Products

Mind and Body Practices

Manipulative and Body Based Practices

Energy Practices

I hope you'll tune in or come to the BellHOP for great coffee and breakfasts and enhanced insights about Whole Hearted Health.

Session Outline:

Whole Hearted Health at the BellHOP Cafe

A Patrick Jonas, MD, aka Dr Synonymous

Disclaimer

We’ve already heard of the 5-5-5 healthy behaviors

Another way to think of health practices is through the NIH five categories of complementary and alternative practices:

1.      Complete Systems of Health Care

2.      Neutriceuticals/ Natural Products

3.      Mind-Body Practices

4.      Manipulative and Body Based Practices

5.      Energy Practices

We’ll focus on Heart Health in a holistic way, adding comments about our medical approaches, too.

OK, what Complete Systems of Care are you familiar with, beyond Western Medicine?

How about Neutriceuticals/Natural Products that promote healthy hearts?

What about Mind-Body Practices that are heart healthy?

And what are some Manipulative/ Body Based Practices that help the heart?

And how about Energy Therapies that are measurable or un-measurable and heart healthy?

Let me say a bit about how I think about whole hearted health using the NIH model, interspercing comments about our traditional therapies.

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5.

ROPES model for each.

Closing comments.

Drafts of Posts to Finish Someday

Bloggers like me start a lot of posts.  I have 32 drafts started.  Many will never be finished.  You may wish to write about the same topics and do better than I would.  Titles include:

Family Medicine:  Codons or Holons?

                            Differential Diagnosis

                            Snow Angels and Didgeridoos

                            Uncertainty Rules

                            Drug Samples

                            If It was Easy, It Wouldn't be Fun

                            Fear and Tension

                            Depression

                            Phenomena and Proclivities

                            Abandon Ship?

                            I Almost Died, and You Weren't Available, Doctor

                            I Want My Life Back

                             Partnering with Patients

                             Blue Collar Doctors

Have fun with these in the blogosphere as you wish.  (And send me a copy).

Onward

Family Medicine: We are Blessed

Stories, Stories, Stories.  People, People, People.  Families, Families, Families.

We get them all in Family Medicine.  And health and disease. We are blessed.

We are also thankful--  thankful for the opportunity to  witness and participate with our patients in decisions that enhance their human experience.  And our human experience, too.

We're in this together.  We care about each other.

Thanks to all our patients who share their stories.  Thanks to our teachers who enabled us to learn the medical and behavioral science.

Thanks to our mirrors that show us who we are through our own eyes.

Thanks to God for joy, beauty and the mystery of life.

Onward.