Hi I’m Ross Tanick, DO, family medicine resident at Swedish Medical Center in Colorado. This podcast features interviews and stories with physicians from a variety of backgrounds and involved in many different styles of practice (mental health, addiction and pain, rural practice, OMM/OMT, geriatrics, pediatrics, lifestyle med, preventive medicine, etc). We dive into the journey to become a physician and choosing a specialty, as well as hear fun stories and compelling cases being presented. N ...
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Lauren Bull, MD – practicing in New Zealand, global medicine, and full spectrum family medicine
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Global Medicine! This episode is with Lauren Bull, MD who discusses her experiences practicing in New Zealand, as well as practicing full spectrum in the US. She compares the two systems and speaks to the advantages and disadvantages of each. Great ep! Get into it! Don't forget to check out the archive of past episodes, available for free! Subscrib…
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Alex McDonald, MD – lifestyle med, sports med, and leadership in medicine
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Lifestyle med, sports med, leadership, advocacy, and working in a big healthcare system! Gee, we covered a lot in this succinct episode! Great to connect with @alexzmcdonald (Alex McDonald, MD) about many topics in primary care. Enjoy your September episode (yes, I know it is late. My bad.)!
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Aubre Tompkins, CNM – midwifery and community birth
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Midwifery and Community Birth!This episode is with Aubre Tompkins, CNM. She is the president of the American Association of Birth Centers, and she is a passionate voice for community birth in the appropriate situations. She is the clinical director of Seasons Midwifery and Birth Center. And she wrote a great book to educate the general public calle…
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Gretchen Frey, MD – hormone therapy, gender-affirming care, sexual pain disorders
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Hormone therapy in menopause, gender-affirming care, and sexual pain disorders!This episode is with OBGYN Dr. Gretchen Frey. She has a new project out now! An Introduction to Sexuality Education: A Handbook for Primary Care Providers. Get it now at https://v3.unhushed.org/She talks about how she worked as a general OBGYN for many years, then as she…
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Ross Tanick, DO – interviewed by Dave Gordon, MD
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(Woops. It appears that after the intro there is about 35 seconds of silence before the interview begins. That’s my bad. Feel free to skip the silent part, you won’t hurt my feelings.). The script has been flipped! Dr. Dave Gordon interviews me about my medical school experiences and the journey ahead into family medicine residency at Swedish Medic…
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Josh Emdur, DO – telehealth, remote primary care, and the future of medicine
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Telehealth, remote primary care, and the future of medicine! This episode with Josh Emdur, DO is a fun and interesting one about telehealth, remote primary care, and the future of medicine! We get into all sorts of topics from his time as a hospitalist, to him changing up his practice completely and getting out of the hospital and into a role as a …
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Brieanna Seefeldt, DO – direct primary care, osteopathy, ditching corporate medicine
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Direct Primary Care! Dr. Brie Seefeldt is an awesome guest on the podcast. She talks about how she got out of the world of corporate medicine to start her own small, independent practice that functions as direct primary care (DPC), circumventing insurance and giving her patients quality time and quality care. She talks about the details regarding D…
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Marcia Brauchler, MPH – business of medicine, billing, coding, and contract negotiation
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Business of Medicine! Releasing this just after the Match, so I hope everyone is in high spirits with no stress at all in their lives! Today's episode is with Marcia Brauchler, a business consultant for physicians. She is the owner and founder of Physicians' Ally, a consulting firm that helps physicians negotiate contracts with insurance companies …
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Davis Blanton, MD – endoscopy and colonoscopy as a family doctor
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Endoscopy and Colonoscopy as a Family Doctor!Dr. Davis Blanton details the world of endoscopy and colonoscopy within the world of the family medicine doctor. He discusses his passion for teaching at the high school level, and as faculty at a family medicine residency as well. We then get into how he got trained in endoscopy, how often he performs t…
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Fred Grover Jr, MD – integrative medicine, ketamine, and sound therapy
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Integrative medicine time! Psychedelic ayahuasca experiences in Peru, chanting with monks in Tibet, performing sound therapy and ketamine therapy in Colorado, working for Kaiser, being Chief Resident and then faculty for a FM residency program, starting a solo practice, and thoughts about the modern American healthcare system. This is an interestin…
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Bryan Hemmer – behavior change in medicine, neuro-linguistic programming, and personal development
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Happy Holidays, friends. Consider this a stocking stuffer from the PCP to you. My guest today is a friend from my undergraduate psychology days, Bryan Hemmer. He is the owner of The Inevitable You®, a life and business coaching system that uses the latest in neural sciences, elite military leadership training, and cutting-edge business principles t…
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Mario Giovacchini, MD – how to learn and excel in residency with a FM PGY-2
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This episode is with Dr. Mario Giovacchini, a second-year resident in family medicine at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO. He has a very interesting backstory, having been in the biotech industry, medical informatics, and genome sequencing prior to getting inspired to go to medical school while on a medical mission in Honduras. He talks about hi…
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Levi Sundermeyer, MD – program director at a family medicine residency
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Family Medicine Residency Program Director, Dr. Levi Sundermeyer, graces this episode of the Primary Care Podcast. We sat down in his office to have a long discussion about the residency application, interview, and matching process from the point of view of a PD. We also discuss his additional OB training, his time as an active duty physician in th…
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Kathy Vidlock, MD – sports medicine
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Sports Medicine!! If that doesn’t excite you, I don’t know what will. This episode was a delightful, in-person(!) interview with Dr. Kathy Vidlock. She did her residency in family medicine and practiced as a family doctor for 10 years prior to completing a fellowship in sports medicine at the University of Iowa. She has worn many hats throughout he…
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Kristina Hulen, MD — all things residency with a PGY-2 in family medicine
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This fantastic episode is with Kristina Hulen, MD who is a second-year family medicine resident at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO. We discuss the ins and outs of family medicine residency, including the journey to get there. She gives us a break down of her day to day life, as well as a more zoomed out view of the overall timeline of her three…
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Michal Klepadlo, DO – applying to residency, clinical reasoning, and mentorship in medicine
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This episode of the Primary Care Podcast is with internal medicine intern, Dr. Michal Klepadlo. He recently started residency at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO. We discuss many things in this episode including how to set yourself up to apply to residency, his love of clinical reasoning and how to improve your skills, his appreciation for the p…
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Colleen Maher, OMS IV — applying to and matching family medicine programs
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In this episode, fourth-year medical student and soon-to-be osteopathic physician, Colleen Maher, details her journey through third and fourth year of medical school including doing 5 sub-internships, applying to and interviewing with residency programs, and matching at her top choice family medicine residency program. We also discuss how to sell y…
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Cleveland Piggott, MD, MPH — diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine
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Great episode just released with Dr. Cleveland Piggott! He is a family physician and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He talks about being a black man in medicine and many issues of diversity in medicine. I, personally, learned a lot from talking to Dr. Piggott and hope you all enjoy our discussion. Get out i…
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Carolyn Chen, MD — health disparities and caring for the underserved
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This episode of the Primary Care Podcast features an engaging and inspiring conversation with family physician Dr. Carolyn Chen about health disparities and caring for marginalized people and those of low socioeconomic status. Enjoy, friends. The last version was uploaded with a weird glitch that had the interview on repeat. This is the real versio…
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Wendy Scinta, MD — obesity medicine
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Dr. Wendy Scinta talks about her work as a family-medicine-trained obesity medicine specialist. She is the immediate past president of the Obesity Medicine Association. Her book about combating and treating childhood obesity, BOUNCE, is available now! Enjoy!
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The great Dr. Dow joins me on the Primary Care Podcast to talk extensively about her field of pediatric medicine. She spoke passionately about her several different careers within pediatrics and other topics in medicine and children’s literature, as well. We cover pediatric emergency medicine, primary care, and her post-clinical career teaching med…
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Michelle Tollefson, MD — lifestyle medicine
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Dr. Michelle Tollefson is an OBGYN and a fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also a breast cancer survivor. Hear her talk about: - implementing change to medical curricula to include more evidence-based lifestyle medicine - many elements of health and wellness having to do with the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine - statistics…
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Mark Andersen-Nissen, DPT — physical therapy and primary care
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Mark Andersen-Nissen is a doctor of physical therapy and a passionate advocate for his field. In this episode of the Primary Care Podcast, we discuss Dr. Mark’s work as a physical therapist and how he experiences his profession’s relationship with primary care medicine. Really good stuff here. Enjoy. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review!…
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Dr. David Gordon - part 2 - cannabis medicine
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Part 2 of my talk with David Gordon, MD where we focus on his practice using cannabis as medicine. He talks risk and benefit, uses, misconceptions, and what the literature and research say on the topic of cannabis medicine. We take listener questions at the end. Spread the word. Tell a friend who you think might enjoy this show. Thanks. Enjoy.…
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Dr. David Gordon - part 1 - root-cause medicine and chronic disease
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Dr. Gordon tells his story and journey through internal medicine residency in Colorado and breaks down his methods of practicing root-cause medicine and treating/preventing chronic disease. Stay tuned for part 2 about cannabis medicine. Find Dr. Gordon at 4pillarsdenver.com
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This episode features the amazing Beatriz Linn, MD telling the incredible story of her life. She talks about growing up in the Andes Mountains of Colombia, going to medical school in Medellín, almost getting kidnapped by guerrillas in the jungle during the Colombian drug trade of the late 1980s, coming to the US and training as an internist, and no…
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We discuss her work in geriatrics. Dr. Palat is an internist and fellowship-trained geriatrician. She talks about the unique aspects of caring for an older population, her philosophy on aging well, her approach to care, and much more!
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This is part 2 of my talk with Andreas Edrich, MD. We discuss his career in family medicine and how he got into addiction medicine. He talks about management of patients with addiction from a primary care perspective.
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My conversation with Andreas Edrich, MD about his approach to mental health management as a family physician.
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A conversation with the great Victor Doyle, DO about his experience in family medicine. We also talked about the business of medicine and much more!
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My conversation with Julie Lafontano, DO about her career as a family physician. Enjoy! Rate and review. Send questions and comments to FamilyMedicinePodcast@gmail.com to get your voice heard.
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Dr. Jeffery Bacon is an osteopathic family physician out of Sterling, Colorado. We discussed many topics including physician wellness and burnout, training residents to practice full scope family med, using OMT and telemedicine as tools, and much more! He seems to love his job and being a leader in medicine in a small community. Hope you enjoy.…
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Dr. Bouquet is an osteopathic family physician who has practiced family medicine and addiction/pain medicine for many years. He is currently a professor of Clinical medicine at Rocky Vista University in the Department of Primary Care Medicine. I sat down with him in his office and found out a bit about his thoughts on many aspects of family practic…
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