Podcasts about francis hospital

In this vital and technically complex presentation, Dr Scott Antoine explains why PANS (Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome) and PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptoccocal Infection) are common and overlooked root cause of psychiatric symptoms in children (such as OCD, restrictive eating, anxiety, emotional distress, depression, dramatic mood swings, psychosis and suicidal ideation). In doing so, he encourages physicians to explore mental health in an entirely new way, especially in the treatment of children.    Dr Scott Antoine completed his undergraduate training at the University of Scranton, after which he completed his doctorate at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. He later served in active duty with the United States Army as an Emergency Physician and worked as an Emergency Physician at St. Francis Hospital until 2019. In addition to his board certification in Emergency Medicine, he achieved board certification in Integrative Medicine and holds certifications in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and A4M. His book The Comprehensive Physicians Guide to the Management of PANS and PANDAS was released in February 2024 to excellent reviews.    He discovered his calling when he and his wife Ellen, also a Functional and Integrative Medicine physician, battled to correctly diagnose the root-cause of their 12 year old daughter's sudden-onset OCD, insomnia, rage, as PANS. Since then, he has helped hundreds of children recover from PANS and PANDAS, and in 2019 helped to pass a law which prohibits insurance companies in Indiana from denying coverage for medical care (including IVIG) for children with PANS and PANDAS.   In this richly informative personable interview, he presents an evidence-based outline of the successful ways to both diagnose and treat PANS and PANDAS, and stresses that they are not nearly as rare as mainstream medicine seems to believe. He decodes complex medical expertise, referencing over 300 clinical studies and peer-reviewed medical literature, that identify biological mechanisms and the root causes that underlie PANS and PANDAS. In this episode, Dr Antoine unravels why PANS/PANDAS can have such a profound, often sudden impact on Children's psychiatric health, and demands that PANS and PANDAS be considered more broadly in psychiatric diagnoses. In this episode you will learn how infections, toxins and the immune system interplay in the expression of harmful psychiatric symptoms, why they cause PANS and PANDAS, and how they can be successfully treated.   In this episode learn about: Why PANS and PANDAS are hidden and common root cause of OCD, violent mood swings, depression, anxiety and suicidality, how they are diagnosed, and the role of testing. Why physicians routinely overlook and even deny PANS and PANDAS as a cause of mental health symptoms. Why toxins and infections can trigger PANS and PANDAS and their associated neuropsychiatric symptoms. How Strep is related to autoimmunity and why to treat it even if strep tests are negative.   Why a range of infections - not just strep or Lyme borrelia - can trigger neuropsychiatric symptoms (OCD, attention issues, hallucinations, psychosis, depression, suicidal ideation), including other tick-borne co-infections, influenza, Epstein Barr, chlamydia pneumonia and Covid. Ways environmental chemicals, heavy metals, pesticides and mycotoxins (mould) can lead to inflammation and autoimmunity. The concrete link between rheumatic fever and OCD, ADHD, mood issues and psychosis. Other causes of autoimmunity, including genetics, intestinal permeability, infection/T-cell activation and molecular mimicry  (the mechanism by which microbes can induce autoimmunity). The 4 vital components of treatment: 1) find and treat infections 2) find and remove toxins 3) re-regulate the immune system 4) break neurological loops (OCD, anxiety). How to treat infections using prolonged use of antibiotics, and which antibiotics to choose. Why herbs (isatis, baicalensis, cat's claw etc) can reduce the duration of antibiotic use, and the studies that prove it. The binders (activated charcoal, zeolites, humic acid) and bitters that help remove toxins. Ways medications (naltrexone and steroids) can help re-regulate the immune system. Why and when IVIG is used for the treatment, why it can relieve and cure symptoms (OCD, anxiety and tics) quickly. How Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) and hypnosis outperforms medications in breaking neurological loops (OCD, anxiety, intrusive thoughts) Other helpful interventions that assist healing; nutrients, diet changes and probiotics.

On November 12, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally in front of the Marriott Hotel downtown, where the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was holding a meeting. St. Agnes nurses rallied with supporters from around the city, and they were even joined by fellow Ascension nurses who traveled from Wichita, Kansas, and Austin, Texas.   According to a press release from National Nurses Organizing Committee / National Nurses United (NNOC-NNU), the purpose of the rally was to “highlight how Ascension has failed to follow USCCB directives to Catholic health care organizations to both serve and advocate for patients ‘at the margins of society' and ‘treat its employees respectfully and justly.'... Baltimore nurses have been in negotiations since Feb. 2024, following a successful union election in November 2023. Ascension has failed to bargain in good faith with Saint Agnes nurses on language that would improve safe staffing and protect patients from cuts to services, lawsuits for billing disputes, and surprise billing or excess charges.” In this on-the-ground episode, you'll hear speeches and chants from the Nov. 12 rally, and we speak with Gideon Eziama, a registered nurse with over 20 years of experience who has worked at Ascension St. Agnes for the last six years, and Lisa Watson, a registered nurse at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, who traveled to Baltimore to stand in solidarity with her coworkers at Ascension St. Agnes. Additional links/info below… National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United website, Facebook page, Twitter/X page, and Instagram NNOC/NNU Press Release: “Ascension nurses call on US bishops to hold Catholic hospital chain accountable to church directives” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Baltimore nurses at largest Catholic health network in US fight on for first contract” Aleja Hertzler-McCain, Religion News Service, “Ascension nurses receive tepid response from Catholic bishops after rally” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Studio Production: Max Alvarez Post-Production: Jules Taylor

On November 12, unionized nurses at Ascension St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore held a rally in front of the Marriott Hotel downtown, where the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) was holding a meeting. St. Agnes nurses rallied with supporters from around the city, and they were even joined by fellow Ascension nurses who traveled from Wichita, Kansas, and Austin, Texas.According to a press release from National Nurses Organizing Committee / National Nurses United (NNOC-NNU), the purpose of the rally was to “highlight how Ascension has failed to follow USCCB directives to Catholic health care organizations to both serve and advocate for patients ‘at the margins of society' and ‘treat its employees respectfully and justly.'... Baltimore nurses have been in negotiations since Feb. 2024, following a successful union election in November 2023. Ascension has failed to bargain in good faith with Saint Agnes nurses on language that would improve safe staffing and protect patients from cuts to services, lawsuits for billing disputes, and surprise billing or excess charges.” In this on-the-ground episode, you'll hear speeches and chants from the Nov. 12 rally, and we speak with Gideon Eziama, a registered nurse with over 20 years of experience who has worked at Ascension St. Agnes for the last six years, and Lisa Watson, a registered nurse at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, who traveled to Baltimore to stand in solidarity with her coworkers at Ascension St. Agnes. Additional links/info below…National Nurses Organizing Committee/National Nurses United website, Facebook page, Twitter/X page, and InstagramNNOC/NNU Press Release: “Ascension nurses call on US bishops to hold Catholic hospital chain accountable to church directives”Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “Baltimore nurses at largest Catholic health network in US fight on for first contract”Aleja Hertzler-McCain, Religion News Service, “Ascension nurses receive tepid response from Catholic bishops after rally”Permanent links below…Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show!Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageIn These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter pageThe Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter pageFeatured Music…Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme SongStudio Production: Max AlvarezPost-Production: Jules TaylorBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-news-podcast--2952221/support.

Dr. Alessi discusses Daylight Savings Time and argues for its elimination due to its negative health effects. He also addresses Medicare Open Enrollment, outlining its benefits and providing recommendations for selecting the best plan for your needs. Additionally, he speaks with Dr. Michael E. Joyce, President and CEO of the Lighthouse Surgery Center at St. Francis Hospital. As one of the original sponsors of Healthy Rounds, Dr. Joyce was instrumental in the show's creation. During their conversation, they reminisce about their shared history and reflect on the center's unique contributions to orthopedic and spine surgery practices.

Dr. Alessi covers several important health and safety topics, including the E. coli outbreak at McDonald's, emphasizing the need for food safety inspections. He also discusses varying helmet laws across states and addresses the implications of Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) agreements for student athletes, particularly regarding health products that may not be effective for concussion prevention, raising safety concerns for amateur athletes. Since October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dr. Alessi also has a conversation with Dr. Kathryn Capasso from St. Francis Hospital, discussing the comprehensive care provided by the breast cancer center, including statistics, treatment options, and vital signs to monitor.

Dr. Alexandra Dubinskaya is the founding physician at the Los Angeles Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Health in Beverly Hills, CA. She has sculpted a multidisciplinary haven that stands as a testament to her visionary approach to women's sexual health and wellness. The institute caters to patients seeking expert care for issues ranging from urinary incontinence to pelvic organ prolapse, UTIs to interstitial cystitis, vestibulodynia to sexual dysfunction. Dr. Dubinskaya harmoniously blends her vast expertise in urogynecology, female pelvic medicine, reconstructive surgery, sexual health, and menopause to offer a holistic care paradigm that truly celebrates and nurtures women. Her journey started in Russia where she had the honor of training at the prestigious North Western State Medical University and I.I. Dzhanelidze Research Institute of Emergency Care in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She then continued to the revered hallways of institutions like Tufts Medical Center in Boston and St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Dr. Dubinskaya has honed her craft, always driven by her unwavering commitment to women's health. Her pivotal experience at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, CA, as a fellow of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, further solidified her position as a vanguard in her field. Dr. Dubinskaya is globally recognized and serves as the chairperson of the Communication Committee for the International Society of Sexual Medicine, championing sexual literacy and championing a dialogue about women's intimate health on a grand scale. A prolific contributor to academia, her insights are splashed across the pages of esteemed journals and seminal textbooks, including Ostergard's Urogynecology and Steele's Colorectal Textbooks, setting new benchmarks in women's health. She was also published in Taking Care of You, writing the chapter on Vulvodynia and published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. ____________________________________________________________________ Calling all Brooklyn Moms! JOWMA presents an evening of Nutrition for Moms and Kids. On May 22nd at 8 PM, learn helpful tips and tricks for preparing nutritious food for you and your family, with Marina Klotsman, DO and JOWMA's Wellness Director, Julie Wilcox. The cost is $18, and is an evening you don't want to miss!Register on our website ⁠https://www.jowma.org/events/nutrition-for-moms-kids⁠ This event is sponsored by Rambam Health. __________________________________________________ Sponsor the JOWMA Podcast! Email digitalcontent@jowma.org Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org  Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org  Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med  Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg/Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

Dr. Don G. Nelson specialized in Internal Medicine and pulmonology for 60 years. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1965. Don became affiliated in Oklahoma with multiple hospitals including Hillcrest Hospital South, St. Francis Hospital, and the Veteran Affairs Hospital in Muskogee.He was born in Moline, Illinois, where he graduated Moline High School and then the University of Illinois. In 1973 he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was first associated with Springer Clinic.In addition to his medical career, Dr. Nelson became a triathlete and participated in three hundred Triathlons. His first triathlon was the first Hillcrest Ultimate Challenge. He was one of the pioneers of the sport in the Tulsa area and traveled to many countries while competing in World Championship events.Listen to Dr. Don Nelson talk about his love for the medical profession, his triathlon experience, and his advice for everyone, regardless of their age, to exercise for good health on the oral history website and podcast VoicesOfOklahoma.com.

Today we invite you into the heart and history of Sister Kathleen Skog, OSF, a devoted Franciscan Sister with an incredible journey of faith, dedication, and service spanning over six decades. This illuminating interview sheds light on Sister Kathleen's early call to religious life, her impactful roles in education and healthcare, and the profound influence of Franciscan spirituality in her mission. Sister Kathleen's story begins in the vibrant suburbs of Minneapolis, where her encounter with the Immaculate Conception Catholic School nuns at a tender age inspired her lifelong commitment to God's call. With candid reflections, she shares her experiences of growing up, her early entrance into the convent, and the rigorous yet rewarding path of becoming a Franciscan Sister. Delving into the historical context, Sister Kathleen recounts the Franciscan Sisters' pivotal role in Texas healthcare, originating from a small newspaper article that led their Mother House from Sylvania, Ohio, to establish St. Francis Hospital in Brenham. This tale of faith and providence highlights the sisters' adaptability and their unwavering commitment to serving communities in need. Throughout the interview, Sister Kathleen's warmth and wisdom illuminate her diverse roles—from teaching young minds in Detroit to overseeing food services at St. Jude Hospital in Brenham, Texas. Her stories of integrating faith into education, embracing community life, and facing health challenges with grace, offer a profound testament to the joy and fulfillment found in a life dedicated to service and God. As the discussion unfolds, listeners gain insights into the Franciscan Sisters' mission, their foundational values rooted in St. Francis of Assisi's teachings, and the evolving needs of their ministry. Sister Kathleen's reflections on the beauty of communal support, the gift of friendship, and the enduring presence of God in her life serve as a powerful reminder of the impact one individual can make through a life of dedication and love. This episode not only explores Sister Kathleen's remarkable journey but also serves as an invitation to contemplate the deeper callings in our own lives. Whether you're drawn to learning more about faith, religion, Christianity, local ministries, or opportunities to support faith-based organizations, Sister Kathleen's story offers inspiration, hope, and a compelling example of living out one's faith in action. Join us on this spiritual voyage as we celebrate the legacy of Sister Kathleen Skog, OSF, and the timeless values of the Franciscan community. For those seeking to deepen their understanding of faith, explore religious vocations, or simply find encouragement in the stories of those who have walked the path of service, this episode is a beacon of light and a source of inspiration.   Check out our YouTube page to see great RED-C Apostolate content!   Visit redcradio.org or download our RED-C Radio App to access our live radio, listen to all of our podcasts, and find additional information and resources related to our Catholic faith. And if you want to support The RED-C Apostolate and all that we do, please consider making a recurring or one-time donation (https://redcradio.org/donate). You can also subscribe to our email list at https://redcradio.org/subscribe. May God bless you and all your loved ones!

We are sad to announce the passing of Albert Leu Gregory (Al) of Hugo, OK. Mr. Gregory was born in Jackson, AL on December 23, 1959, died at the age of 63 November 9, 2023, at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa, OK. Graduated from Grove Hill Academy in 1980. Served in the United States Navy till his retirement as a Yeoman First Class in 2006. He will be sadly missed and will always hold a place in our hearts. Mr. Gregory is survived by his: daughter, Allisa (Cameron) Moreno; Son, James Gregory; grandchildren, Ariana and Olivia Moreno; siblings, Zola Howell,...Article Link

Listen in as I share my personal experiences and engage in a profound conversation with Dr. Jeannelle Perkins-Muhammad on the intricacies of Black intimacy and relationships. Together, we unravel the layers of emotional intelligence, cultural conditioning, and personal experiences that shape our interactions with our partners. Have you ever wondered how your beliefs affect your relationships? Together with Dr. Jeannelle, we probe into the deeply ingrained teachings of Christianity within the black community and their impact on how we perceive and handle intimacy. We also delve into the historical echoes of slavery that still hinder our ability to foster healthy relationships today and explore how understanding our commitment levels can lead us to more fulfilling relationships. Finally, we dissect the pressing issue of mental health within our communities and its connection to our relationships.About Dr. Jeannelle Perkins-Muhammad:Dr. Jeannelle Perkins-Muhammad is a Psychotherapist, Licensed Family Therapist, and SC State Supervisor with more than 20 years of experience in relationship and life coaching. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Capella University. Dr. Jeannelle is a board member of Charleston Hope; an organization that increases access to mental and behavioral health programs in Title I schools to enhance student well-being. As an adjunct professor at The Citadel in Charleston, SC, and Practicum Supervisor for Capella and Liberty Universities, she focuses on building a new generation of culturally competent clinical counselors. Dr. Jeannelle was a Foundation Fellow of Roper St. Francis Hospital. She has been an entrepreneur for the majority of her life and utilizes these skills to coach fellow entrepreneurs who aspire to develop and grow legacies. You can find more information about her book INTO-ME-SEE  here: DrJeannelle.com/get-the-book/Support the showShow Credits:Richard Dodds (Host/Producer): @DoddsismShow Music: @IAmTheDjBluePodcast Website: StillTalkingBlack.comStill Talking Black is a production of Crowned Culture Media LLC. All rights reserved.

Today I will read a Facebook message from a mom whose son was in an accident. I do not know this family personally. One of my Big Life sisters does, and so she asked for prayers on our mentoring page and kept us updated. There were so many people praying for this young man. This mom's name is Megan, and she got that phone call that no one wants to receive. That phone call where the sheriff says those four words that change your life forever, “There's been an accident.” I will probably do another Witness Wednesday on this family later, as there have been so many miracles going on. God has definitely been showing off for this boy and His family. Today's miracle is about how he was discovered and how if it weren't for his phone, he wouldn't be alive today. It's crazy to me that God even works through cell phones. I will let her explain what happened.If there is one thing that I want people to know about Creighton's accident, it is about the importance of having crash detection on your phone. We can say with great certainty that, without crash detection, my son wouldn't be alive today.On June 30th, my 17-year-old son was in a rollover accident while driving back to town to go to work. He was driving on a quiet, rural highway in the dark hours of the morning when the accident happened. I got the call a little after 6:00 am from the Sumner County Deputy. The first thing she asked me when I answered the phone was to identify which person in my home drove a red truck. After I told her it was my son Creighton, she said, “You need to get to St. Francis Hospital as soon as possible. He's been in a rollover accident.” That was the longest 25-minute drive of my life, not knowing what condition he would be in when I got there, only going off the knowledge that I had to identify him, meaning he wasn't consciously able to tell them who he was on the scene.When we got to the hospital, we were met at the ER doors by a chaplain. He told us that Creighton was alive (and I finally exhaled for the first time since my phone rang that morning) but that he was in critical condition and they were working on him in the Trauma ICU. He walked us to a room to wait for more information while his medical team worked to stabilize him.While we were waiting for an update, I was contacted by a Sheriff who was on the scene, letting me know that his team of responders were all thinking of us. Desperate for any sort of information, I had my brother-in-law call him to ask about the details of the accident. He told us that the call came in at 5:18 that morning. He detailed for us their assessment of the scene. They believe Creighton's car swerved off the road into an embankment, causing his truck to become airborne, rolling end over end when it came back down and ejecting him from the vehicle at some point in the collision. His body was found about 60 feet from his truck. He told us that Creighton was extremely hypoxic when the responders got to him, and he had to be intubated in the field. Over the next few hours, he remained in contact with us. We gave him updates, and he sent us pictures of the truck. We eventually asked the sheriff who called in the accident. He said, “Your son's phone called 911. He has crash detection on his phone. It detected the accident and called us. When he didn't respond to us, we dispatched to his location.” We were told that, with where he was in the ditch, it would've been difficult for anyone driving by to see him. When they arrived on the scene, the sun was just now coming up. There was little to no traffic and no good samaritans that had found him yet. He was alone and barely alive. Had his phone not had crash detection on it, Creighton wouldn't still be here.His injuries are extensive, and he has a long road to recovery. Once he is more stable and off the ventilator, we will travel with him to Madonna Rehab in Nebraska, where he will spend a couple of months in rehabilitation for his brain and spinal cord injuries. We have a positive outlook for his recovery, and he's already shown us how much of a fighter he is. As heart-wrenching as it is to watch your child fight for their life, I am indescribably thankful that he still gets the chance to fight.Please share his story and make others aware of the benefits of having crash detection on your phone. Newer versions of the iPhone (I was told it is iPhone 14 and newer) have this feature built into the phone. There are also apps, like Life360, where you can pay a small fee every month to add crash detection to all of your family's phones. I hope you never need to use it, but if you or your loved one were ever to have an accident, I can promise you will be forever grateful for how quickly they are able to get help. Wow, what a story. Thank the good Lord above that he had crash detection on his phone. Not only was it an option, but it was turned on. God is so good. This accident happened on June 30th, and I saw on the Facebook page that Creighton is now home! Praise God! The Facebook post that says he is home was from September 27th. So, almost 3 months later, he finally gets to come home. There were so many moments of uncertainty if that day would ever come—so many times when it was one step forward and 3 steps back. However, thanks be to God, Megan has all five of her children under the same roof again! It doesn't look the same as it did before the accident, but she said having them all under the same roof will be something she never takes for granted again! If you want to read more about this young man's journey, there is a Facebook page with all the posts about him. If you put in the search bar #creightonstrong, you will see all the posts. I am grateful to the mom for sharing her story. Who knows how many other children she can save by informing parents about crash detection? It was not something I had ever heard of before. Thank you to Megan for sharing this story, and thank you to Jenni, who shared it with the Big Life family so we could all cover this family in prayers. You can certainly see God's fingerprints all over this situation.

This week, we're replaying a classic episode where Steve and Yvonne interview Lloyd Bell of the Bell Law Firm (https://www.belllawfirm.com/).   Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here to Rate and Review   View/Download Trial Documents   Case Details: Medical malpractice attorney Lloyd Bell of Bell Law Firm explains how he led two weeks of trial and obtained a record-breaking jury verdict for a woman who suffered severe complications following neck surgery. Due to the negligence of the hospital's ICU doctor in responding to the patient's restricted airway, she entered into a three-week-long coma and awoke blind and brain-damaged due to a lack of oxygen.   Guest Bio: Lloyd Bell With over 25 years of legal experience, Lloyd Bell has built a sterling courtroom record and recovered millions of dollars for medical malpractice victims. A veteran of the U.S. Army JAG Corps, Bell founded his own law firm in 1999 and is consistently recognized as one of the top attorneys in his field. In 2018, Bell Law Firm was recognized as Personal Injury Litigation Team of the Year by Daily Report, the leading source of legal news in Atlanta. Lloyd Bell has been included in Atlanta Magazine's prestigious Super Lawyers list every year since 2005, and more recently the Super Lawyers “Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia” list in 2018. Bell has also been named as one of the few personal injury lawyers in Georgia on the prestigious list of “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend Magazine, an honor he has received every year since 2015. His firm differentiates itself with deep legal expertise, a mastery of technology in the courtroom, and compelling storytelling. Over the past five years, Bell won more seven- and eight-figure verdicts for his clients in medical malpractice cases than any other attorney in the state of Georgia, including a $15 million verdict against a large Atlanta hospital group in 2016 and a record-breaking $26 million verdict against a Columbus hospital in 2017. Bell is a member of the Melvin M. Belli Society, a group of distinguished trial lawyers dedicated to the principles of education. Bell is also board certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys in the field of medical malpractice. Read Full Bio   Show Sponsors: Legal Technology Services - LegalTechService.com Digital Law Marketing - DigitalLawMarketing.com Harris Lowry Manton LLP - hlmlawfirm.com   Free Resources: Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

Thomas Burke is the President of Saint Francis Hospital & Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital. He is responsible for leading both the largest Catholic hospital in New England and the only freestanding acute care rehabilitation hospital with almost 700 beds combined. Prior to this, Tom served as the Vice President of Operations and Chief Productivity Officer at Saint Francis. He has held various leadership roles throughout his career including Health-System Vice President for Prospect Medical Holdings, Vice President of Operations at Waterbury Hospital, and Director of Pharmacy at Temple University Health System. Tom obtained a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and a Master of Business Administration from Saint Joseph's University. He is also a certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. Learn more about Tom at https://atchainternational.com/healthcare-and-higher-podcast-ep76-thomas-burke/ For a complete list of guests and links to past episodes, visit https://atchainternational.com/podcast-healthcare-and-higher/ Are you a healthcare professional or healthcare executive looking to advance your career, build a better brand, or create a leadership legacy? Visit us at https://atchainternational.com to learn how we can help. Connect with Iqbal on: - Linked at ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/iqbalatcha/⁠ Follow Healthcare And Higher and Atcha International on: - LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-healthcare-and-higher-podcast - Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/healthcareandhigher - Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/atcha_international_consulting/ Join us again for another exciting episode of #HealthcareAndHigher Song Credits: "Life Is A Dream" by Michael Ramir C. "Stay With Me" by Michael Ramir C.

In this episode, Dr. Aaron Fritts interviews Dr. David Grew, the creator of PRIMR. PRIMR is an online video library that serves the dual purpose of aiding patients in comprehending their cancer diagnosis and treatment choices while also assisting clinical research teams in enhancing their trials with IRB-approved digital content. --- EARN CME Reflect on how this Podcast applies to your day-to-day and earn free AMA PRA Category 1 CMEs: https://earnc.me/wNStIo --- SHOW NOTES David is a radiation oncologist at St. Francis Hospital, a Yale-affiliated cancer center in Hartford, Connecticut. Five years into his practice, he noticed that due to the COVID pandemic, patients were attending their initial consultations alone. To enhance patient understanding, he started drawing illustrations to simplify complex cases. Patients appreciated these drawings and wanted to share them with their families. David seized this opportunity to create a library of narrated whiteboard videos, which he shared with patients to facilitate communication with their loved ones. David initially shared this platform with fellow clinicians, but they struggled to find the time to create content or share links with their patients, leading to underutilization. However, during a conversation with a researcher friend, he recognized the platform's potential to convert a lengthy 40-page informed consent form into a concise two-minute video for patients participating in clinical trials. As he leveraged this model, his business grew significantly and expanded to become a multidisciplinary international team. With his team, he curated a platform aimed at helping interested patients to learn more about treatment options through a library of IRB-approved content for clinical trials. Towards the end of their discussion, the hosts delve into the advantages and drawbacks of being a clinician-entrepreneur. They explore topics such as facing the fear of failure, enjoying a creative outlet, achieving a better work-life balance, and fostering a stronger connection with their medical specialty. --- RESOURCES PRIMR: https://www.primrmed.com/ Dr. Grew's Twitter: @DoctorGrew PRIMR Twitter: @PRIMR_MED

On today's episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, chef and restaurateur Tom Colicchio–owner of Crafted Hospitality and lead judge of the long-running television program Top Chef–joins the podcast to talk about his Root & Sprig fast casual restaurant concept that he developed exclusively for hospital facilities. He recently opened his latest Root & Sprig at St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center in Roslyn, New York in partnership with Catholic Health and Health Hospitality Partners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode as part of Pride Month, join Dr. Peter Grossman as he welcomes Dr. Heidi Wittenberg, a leading expert in transgender surgery, who will unveil groundbreaking techniques and advancements that will transform the way you approach these procedures. Discover the key to achieving enhanced surgical results and patient satisfaction in transgender surgeries, as Dr. Wittenberg shares her extensive knowledge and expertise with our esteemed audience of medical professionals. Get ready to take your practice to new heights and provide the best possible care for transgender patients. In this episode, you will be able to: Uncover the life-enhancing mental health improvements and stronger self-esteem offered by transgender surgery. Grasp the complexities and repercussions of the financial and surgical considerations inseparable from transgender surgery. Stay updated with innovative strides in transgender surgical techniques empowering patients with improved aesthetic outcomes. Acknowledge the merits of in-depth counseling and proper preparation when considering gender affirmation surgery. My special guest is Dr. Heidi Wittenberg Dr. Heidi Wittenberg, a pioneering force in the realm of transgender surgeries. Leading MoZaic Care in San Francisco, Dr. Wittenberg has consistently pushed boundaries, specializing in minimally invasive uro gynecology, genital urinary, and pelvic reconstructive surgeries. Moreover, she played a crucial role as the founding surgeon and director of the first national and international hospital designated as a center of Excellence in Gender Affirmation surgery at St. Francis Hospital. Her profound expertise, backed by passion and an exceptional understanding of different surgical techniques, makes her an influential figure in this evolving field. The resources mentioned in this episode are: Visit MoZaic Care in the San Francisco area for gender confirmation surgery, uro-gynecology, genital urinary surgery, and pelvic reconstructive surgery. Explore the Green Bay Surgery Center, which is the first Center of Excellence in Gender Confirmation Surgery, co-directed by Dr. Heidi Wittenberg. Learn about the Gender Institute at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco, where Dr. Wittenberg is the Medical Director. Consider undergoing gender affirmation surgery to align your physical appearance with your gender identity and improve your mental health and overall well-being. Research the benefits of transgender surgery, including lower rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation, and increased life satisfaction. Understand the potential risks of transgender surgery, such as infection, bleeding, scarring, and adverse reactions to anesthesia. Take into account the financial considerations of gender confirmation surgery, as it may be costly and not covered by insurance. Consider the irreversible nature of certain aspects of transgender surgery, such as the removal of reproductive organs, and how it may impact your future desires for biological children. Recognize the societal, cultural, and religious concerns surrounding transgender surgery, and how they may influence acceptance or rejection Episode Topic Sumarraries: Improved Surgical Techniques and Patient Outcomes in Transgender Surgeries Gender confirmation surgery has continuously evolved over the years, significantly improving patient outcomes. Technological advancements, enhanced surgical precision, and medical understanding have stimulated the development of refined surgical techniques tailored to fit every individual patient's needs. In addition, emphasis on mental health and the availability of comprehensive post-operative care contribute greatly to the successful alignment of physical characteristics with each patient's gender identity. Dr. Heidi Wittenberg, during her conversation with Dr. Peter Grossman, discussed the extensive preparation she undergoes to ensure successful surgical outcomes. While stating that these operations usually signify the endpoint of a patient's transition journey, she underscores the importance of checking the surgeon's experience and their complication rates. The ultimate goal, she analyzed, lies not just in the surgical procedure's success but also in reducing patients' dysphoria and triggering post-operative euphoria. Utilizing Tissue in Neo Vagina Reconstruction Reconstructive surgery within gender affirmation procedures leverages the patient's existing tissue for neo-vagina formation. This is a specialized, delicate process involving several parts of the genital region, including the scrotum and erectile tissues. Innovative surgical techniques even allow surgeons to create a clitoris using the patient's urethra. In her conversation with Dr. Grossman, Dr. Wittenberg expounded on the meticulous process and technical expertise involved in neo-vagina reconstruction. She also outlined how each element - the scrotum, the urethra, and erectile tissues - play a critically important role. The formation of the clitoris using the patient's urethra, for instance, ensures preservation of blood vessels and nerves, critical for sexual sensitivity and pleasure. About the Host - Dr. Peter Grossman

On today's episode of Gist Healthcare Daily, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, DO–CEO of Catholic Health on Long Island, New York–joins the podcast to talk more about his system's growing partnership with Health Hospitality Partners. HHP works with health systems and third-party businesses to revitalize underused hospital spaces, like lobbies, gift shops, and more. Catholic Health recently opened a Root & Sprig restaurant at its St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center in Roslyn, New York.You can hear JC's conversation with HHP founder and CEO Dan Kodner here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Four people were murdered by a man who'd entered the medical office building hunting for his orthopedic surgeon, who was among the victims.

Join Katie and Liz on this week's episode of True Crime New England as they discuss the horrifyingly disturbing case of serial child molester Dr. George Reardon. Over the span of thirty years, between an Albany, New York hospital, and St. Francis Hospital in Connecticut, Dr. Reardon tricked families and children into participating in a study regarding child development. Several complaints came in about his inappropriate behavior, and eventually he was no longer allowed to practice medicine. When homeowners were renovating their house in 2007, nine years after his death, they uncovered a stash of over 50,000 35mm slides of Dr. Reardon's child pornography that lead to a long, intense investigation against the wrongdoings of this respected endocrinologist. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/truecrimene/support

Today's guest is orthopedic surgeon and private practice leader, Dr. Bruce Seideman. Dr. Seideman is a joint replacement specialist at Orthopaedic Associates of Manhasset, part of Spire Orthopedic Partners, and the Chief of Joint Replacement at St. Francis Hospital. He completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in NYC and his […]

Dr. Aaron Weaver is a board-certified family physician in Newark, DE. He went to medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his residency in Family Medicine at St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, DE. His practice is First State Direct Primary Care and he values the doctor-patient relationship, autonomy in decision-making for both patients and doctors, clear communication with patients, and price transparency.website: www.firststatedpc.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/FirstStateDPCInstagram: www.instagram/com/FirstStateDPC

Join us for Part 2 of my conversation with Dr. Shapiro, where we focus more on metacognition - being aware of how you think and learn. Dr. Shapiro was mentored by Dr. Bernie Ackerman and shares some key practices he learned through that relationship. Dr. Philip E. Shapiro is a dermatopathologist and dermatologist in Meriden, Connecticut who founded Dermatopathology Laboratory of New England. He previously worked at Yale University and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including St. Francis Hospital and Yale New Haven Hospital. He received his medical degree from Albany Medical College and has been in practice for 34 years. He was formerly Director of Dermatopathology at Yale. He has numerous publications and has been a leading voice in dermatopathology throughout his career; his contributions include describing interstitial mycosis fungoides and pseudomelanocytic nests.

On this episode, Kennedy sits down with the Director of Pediatric Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY Dr. Sean Levchuck to discuss heart health amongst young athletes. Dr. Levchuck weighs in on the tragic collapse and cardiac arrest of the Buffalo Bills' Safety Damar Hamlin during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals at the beginning of January. He claims the overwhelming impression is that Hamlin may have suffered Commotio Cordis caused by a chest wall impact at just the right time of vulnerability. Later, Dr. Levchuck predicts whether Hamlin will ever return to the field.  Follow Kennedy on Twitter: @KennedyNation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I've known Dr. Shapiro for more than 15 years. Join our conversation to hear about how he thinks about emotional intelligence and who thinks they have a D vs an F (not that it is a competition!)! We touch on two tennis greats, John Newcombe and Roger Federer, as well as what a ditch has to do with emotional intelligence. Dr. Philip E. Shapiro is a dermatopathologist and dermatologist in Meriden, Connecticut who founded Dermatopathology Laboratory of New England. He previously worked at Yale University and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including St. Francis Hospital and Yale New Haven Hospital. He received his medical degree from Albany Medical College and has been in practice for 34 years. He was formerly Director of Dermatopathology at Yale. He has numerous publications and has been a leading voice in dermatopathology throughout his career; his contributions include describing interstitial mycosis fungoides and pseudomelanocytic nests.

Demonstrators criticize an Ascension Wisconsin leader who the union says is responsible.

Story #1: Tragedy on the football field w/ The Chair of Pediatric Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital, Dr. Sean Levchuck. Story #2: A Cinderella in the National Championship Game. Story #3: The scariest thing Will has heard about Idaho.   Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing @WillCainPodcast@fox.com     Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buffalo Bills player, twenty four year-old Damar Hamlin, collapsed mid-game after suffering a cardiac arrest. His heartbeat needed to be restored on the field and he remains in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital's intensive care unit. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Dr. Sean Levchuck, Chair of Pediatric Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital in Long Island, New York, about the shocking scene and the importance of health screenings. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buffalo Bills player, twenty four year-old Damar Hamlin, collapsed mid-game after suffering a cardiac arrest. His heartbeat needed to be restored on the field and he remains in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital's intensive care unit. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Dr. Sean Levchuck, Chair of Pediatric Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital in Long Island, New York, about the shocking scene and the importance of health screenings. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Buffalo Bills player, twenty four year-old Damar Hamlin, collapsed mid-game after suffering a cardiac arrest. His heartbeat needed to be restored on the field and he remains in critical condition in a Cincinnati hospital's intensive care unit. FOX's John Saucier speaks with Dr. Sean Levchuck, Chair of Pediatric Cardiology at St. Francis Hospital in Long Island, New York, about the shocking scene and the importance of health screenings. Click Here To Follow 'The FOX News Rundown: Evening Edition' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As of the end of this week, labor and delivery services will no longer be offered at Ascension St. Francis on Milwaukee's south side. Connie Smith is the President of the Wisconsin Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals, and Tracey Schwerdtfeger is the Registered Nurses Bargaining President at St. Francis Hospital. They join Wisconsin's Afternoon News to discuss the impact this will have on the city's south side pregnant residents, where the positions are going to, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Since he was a kid he believed in UFOs, looked for Bigfoot's footprints around his house, and saw a full body apparition in the hallway. Jason Offutt, author and professor at Northwest Missouri State University, shares his encounters and knowledge of Hillhaven Nursing Home. When the facility first opened in 1923 it was Putnam Memorial Hospital, then it became St. Francis Hospital, Hillhaven Nursing Home, and finally Meadowbrook Nursing Home. This is one of many haunted places in Missouri! For more information on Jason Offutt visit his website: https://www.jasonoffutt.com/

ISE Logik's David Seland, CEO, walks us through a hospital project in Colorado Springs, Colorado where the firm's moisture mitigating admixture was utilized in the concrete slab. Seland explains how the admixture works, the amount of concrete and admixture required and the importance behind controlling moisture in preparation for flooring installation.

While my kids stayed in Kentucky with the twins grandma, I hit the road in November of 2010 and arrived in Waterloo, Iowa, on the day of Eileen's funeral. I was entirely out of my element, being the adoptee outsider feeling invisible. Yet, I knew I was born at St. Frances Hospital in Waterloo, where my birth mother was. Waterloo always gave me an eerie feeling, one I have difficulty describing in words. I have had dreams my whole life off and on about Saint Frances Hospital. I was five years old in the dream when I discovered I was adopted. I'm at St. Francis Hospital on the maternity ward where I was born and the last place I was with my birth mother before we were separated for life. I'm a little girl in the dream, wearing nothing but a small hospital gown with bare feet. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://pamelakaranova.com/2022/07/25/chapter-19-a-casket-and-clues-finding-purpose-in-the-pain-one-adoptees-journey-from-heartbreak-to-hope-and-healing-an-audible-memoir-by-pamela-a-karanova/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pamela-karanova/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pamela-karanova/support

In part one of this ASCO Education Podcast episode, director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Center of Excellence Dr. Richard Pazdur talks with hosts Dr. David Johnson and Dr. Patrick Loehrer about his upbringing in Indiana, his family, and his circuitous route to oncology. If you liked this episode, please subscribe. Learn more at https://education.asco.org, or email us at education@asco.org.   TRANSCRIPT Dr. Pat Loehrer: Hi, I'm Pat Loehrer. I'm the director of the Center of Global Oncology and Health Equity at Indiana University. Dr. David Johnson: I'm Dave Johnson at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. Pat, great to be back with another episode of Oncology, Etc, an ASCO educational podcast. We have a very special guest today, Dr. Richard Pazdur, from the FDA Oncology Center of Excellence. I'm really looking forward to this conversation. Dr. Pat Loehrer: This will be terrific. Dr. David Johnson: Yeah. You were telling me before we got started about a little event that occurred this week, maybe you want to elaborate on that for us. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Yeah, we always start out this by talking about books, and one of the books I'm drawn to today is a book called, The Emperor of All Maladies, which was written by Dr. Mukherjee several years ago. I want to read a little bit from this because it has pertinence. This is about a guy named John Cleveland. Dr. Mukherjee writes, he goes, ‘In 1973 Cleveland was a 22-year-old veterinary student in Indiana. In August that year, two months after his marriage, he discovered a rapidly enlarging lump in his right testis. He was whisked off to the operating room for surgery and returned with a scar and he was diagnosed with metastatic testis cancer. This was right around the time that Larry Einhorn came to Indiana University where he was treated with a three-drug cocktail of actinomycin-D, bleomycin, and oncovin ABO. And then he had a brief remission progressing and was treated with mithramycin mithrymicin. And then in October of 1974, he once again developed progressive disease, and Larry approached him about a new cocktail with the drug cisplatin, that had never been used before in combination, and Larry's thought was to put it together with another couple of drugs.” So, I'll just finish reading this. “In October 7, 1974, Cleveland took the gamble, he enrolled as patient zero for BVP, an acronym for the new regimen containing Bleomycin, Vinblastine and cisplatin. 10 days later, he returned for routine scans and the tumors in his lungs had vanished. He was ecstatic and mystified. He called his wife from the hospital phone. I can't remember what he said, but I told her the results. So, John was the first one cured of testis cancer. Back then it was a 5% cure rate. Today, it's 95%. He is really the hero of heroes. Last week, at this time, John had asked me to come to his hospital room because he was diagnosed with metastatic cancer of a different type. He knew that this was basically the final hours of it. And so he wanted to say goodbye to me, and it was the most touching reunion I had. Two days ago, John passed away. So, my thoughts are with him, especially his family. But also, when we think about heroes, John was one of them, and if it wasn't for him, and his first treatment, Larry might not have gone on and treated other patients with this regimen. This drug cisplatin was experimental back then it caused a lot of nausea and vomiting and didn't work in many tumors, but this was a drug that was really highlighted and approved for the treatment of bladder cancer so Hubert Humphrey could get treated, and then in testis cancer, and it's really one the really success stories of all success stories in terms of oncology, and it started out with this experimental drug from the NCI that was approved by the FDA.” So, this leads us to our guest today, Rick Pazdur who I've known for many years. He grew up in Calumet City, Illinois, which is famous as the home of the Blues Brothers and Rick Pazdur. He got his bachelor's degree from Northwestern, his medical degree from Loyola Stritch Medicine, and then did his hematology-oncology fellowship, initially his oncology fellowship at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's, where I first met Rick, and then later finished his Heme-Onc fellowship at the University of Chicago. From there, he went to Wayne State, served on the faculty there for about five or six years, and then joined the faculty at MD Anderson. He was there from 1988 to 1999. Then, we'd like to hear about this, but for some reason, it got in his head that he wanted to go to the FDA and so he moved to the FDA where he was Director of the Division of Oncology Drug Products, from 1999 to 2005, when they created the Office of Hematology Oncology Products, and he became the Director of this. More recently, he's been made the director of the FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence. He still serves as the acting director for this OHOP. Rick is an extraordinary individual. He's been awarded a number of awards. From ASCO, he got the Service Recognition Award and the Public Service Award in 2013. And the AACR also awarded him the Public Service Award in 2015. He's received numerous awards and he is probably one of the most respected oncologists that I know in this society. It's such a great pleasure to have you here today, Rick. Dr. Richard Pazdur: My pleasure, Pat. My pleasure entirely. I look forward to the conversation. Dr. David Johnson: Pat, you left out one award. He got so many awards that you can't list them all, but I was impressed that he got this award for the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center's – The 100 list. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Yeah, we made the cut-off. Dr. David Johnson: I have no idea what that is. Dr. Pat Loehrer: We were on the 1001 list. We made that one. The only thing I want to throw into is that when I first met Rick, when I was a resident or an intern, I think, he was on the service with Phil Bonomi, who is very important for me for my thymoma research, but there was an oncology nurse on the service, Mary Lind, who was a terrific oncology nurse as they all are. But it turned out there was more chemistry that went on. So, Rick ended up marrying Mary, and I'm sure he'll tell some stories. We'll come back to that in a little bit, too. Dr. David Johnson: Yeah, this is really exciting. So, let's get started. Rick, maybe you could tell us a little bit about your background and what got you into medicine in the early part of your career. Dr. Richard Pazdur: I had an interesting story. Pat had mentioned Calumet City home as a Blues Brothers. That was the orphanage in the movie. It was located in Calumet City. But what you don't know about Calumet City is that the real kind of nickname for Calumet City in the 50s 60s 40s was 'Sin City'. It has the honor of having the greatest number of liquor licenses in the United States. And in Calumet City, which was on the border of Hammond, Indiana, and Calumet City, they're kind of Sister Cities. They're one in Illinois, Calumet City. And Hammond is in Indiana, obviously, there was this strip, and it was called ‘The Strip' and it had all of these bars and floor shows with Sally Rand and gambling. If you walk down there, which I never did as a kid, but drove down there with my father some time just traversing the city, those lights were so bright, it was just like Las Vegas, basically. So, you had that Strip and that went on for maybe three, four, or five blocks. And then you have the rest of the city that I grew up in, which was primarily a Polish Catholic city, which I am kind of a representative of being 100% polish. There were scattered bars throughout the city. In fact, my fondest memory is sleeping in bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or 2 o'clock in the morning, awakening to people running out of a bar, which was 50 feet or 100 feet from my bedroom window. They were screaming and yelling and cursing and everything and throwing beer bottles at each other. And in those days, obviously, as you remember, in the 60s, there was no air conditioning. So, the bar was called The Tropical Inn. Let me tell you this, there was nothing tropical about it and there was nothing 'in' about it. Dr. David Johnson: That background might have driven…. Dr. Richard Pazdur: That was not what I would call a highbrow area, but I enjoyed it. It was a fabulous childhood that I had. Most people don't know this. So, I will share this with you because it really had an indelible mark on my life and something that really transformed my childhood and my high school years and my college years, and my medical school years. When I was about in seventh or eighth grade, my father who was basically a blue-collar factory worker, developed glaucoma, and he went blind at a very early age. And that threw the family into not only emotional turmoil but also economic turmoil. I survived basically by getting Social Security dependent income and had to work at a very early age. I started as a dishwasher. My mother lied about my age so I could start working at a crummy restaurant in Calumet City as a dishwasher and I worked throughout school, but that experience really made me grow up really fast if I could say so. You didn't have a childhood, you had to be responsible because there was really no security blanket to fall back on. Although my parents didn't have a lot of money, they really had very good emotional support for me and both my father and my mother came from very large, Polish families. My mother had nine children in her family. She was right in the middle. And so, I had many cousins and many aunts and uncles and my father had seven children in his family and he was the oldest boy. So, there was a lot of support there, but obviously not a lot of financial support. So, it really made me grow up relatively quickly and really come to some of life's lessons, relatively fast like discrimination against disabled people, which I will always remember. When I was a boy, I remember going with my father walking and obviously he had a white cane, but walking down the street, people would actually cross the street to avoid us. They just didn't want to confront that anxiety. I don't know if it was discrimination or if they just felt uncomfortable dealing with it. When you go to a restaurant, people raise their voices, like the man was mentally impaired and that wasn't the case. Dr. Pat Loehrer: I'm sorry to interrupt you just for a second because I read this somewhere and I think it's important to throw in. So, you graduated from high school in three years? Dr. Richard Pazdur: Yes, that's what I was gonna say. I graduated and I worked during that time also. These jobs were not like jobs that kids have now as consultants or internships, these were like real jobs as a janitor, a gardener, or a packer in a grocery store. You had to do it and you had to compartmentalize your life to get things done, basically. But you were driven to do things and I'm thankful for that experience really. I even use it now when I'm facing turmoil in my life. I look back at that time and say to myself, Rick, if you did it then as a 12-year-old kid, a 14-year-old kid, you could do anything. So, it really fostered a sense of responsibility, self-awareness, and the need to do things for yourself and get going on yourself. because nobody's going to help you in a sense. I'm very grateful for that. Dr. David Johnson: Rick, at what point did you decide to become a physician? How did that experience really drive you into that field? Dr. Richard Pazdur: Well, I spent a great deal of time in the lobby of the University of Chicago hospital with my father. I was the primary caregiver and went with him to his doctor's appointments. I can't tell you the number of hours I spent in the lobby of that hospital. I was very interested in science. I was very interested in really helping people because of that background. I really had a great deal of clarity, though. I remember, when I was maybe a freshman or sophomore in high school, I wrote for the Northwestern Medical School catalog, because I thought I would be going to Northwestern undergraduate, I already decided in my own mind that that's where I wanted to go. I just got their medical school catalog and I was thumbing through it, and I remember this vividly sitting on my bedroom floor next to the window that was 50 feet away from the bar, basically, and was looking through the medical school catalog and seeing all these names of this doctor, head of neurology, assistant professor, associate professor. I said, “Hell, if I'm going to be a doctor, I want to be one of these people. I want to be the best doctor. I want to be teaching the physician here and doing research.” So, unlike most kids today that have to find themselves, like, ‘I'm going to take 8 years to complete college or something like that and take a year off to find myself.' I had to be very, very focused on what I wanted to do. So, I really worked very hard during it through time. I don't regret it, as I say. I went to Northwestern undergraduate and had a fantastic experience there. I graduated in three years as I mentioned. I had a special interest there that most people don't know about. The people at the FDA know about it. I did these pre-med courses but I had a really special interest in the field of sociology, and actually was toying with the idea if I didn't get into medical school to pursue a Ph.D. in Sociology and become an academic sociologist. If you remember and both of you are of this age. Dr. Pat Loehrer: David is, not me. Dr. Richard Pazdur: Okay. David might know of the Vietnam War. This was right around the time of Kent State and closing down the schools, I'm sure you remember that, for the colleges, etc. Nobody went into business or anything like that. It was a sociology, psychology, and anthropology type of things people were interested in. My love was this field, and I did a lot of research on it. I remember one of the professors that probably had the most influence on me, a woman called Zena Smith Blau, who was a sociologist, and I did multiple research projects and independent studies. The first thing when I took her first course, she assigned us a paper and she said, write about yourself, ‘What makes you unique? I went to see her and I said, ‘I really don't know exactly what you mean by this.' She said, ‘Well, how different are you?' And I said, ‘Well, my parents are children of Polish immigrants, and I really know the Polish community in Chicago fairly well.' She said, ‘That's it Rick, that's what your specialty will be.' I did multiple research projects on this area with her. Some of them were like the assimilation of Polish immigrants with regard to urban-rural origin. Another one was working-class youth in Chicago, and mobility based on education and high school part-time employment. So, that was a fantastic experience that is totally outside of what I did in my future. Dr. David Johnson: We asked our listeners to submit questions because we knew you were coming on. We did get a question that perhaps is appropriate to ask at this time. It comes from a younger trainee, who wants to know what advice you would give to a trainee aspiring to have a clinical investigative career in oncology? What sort of preparation should they have? Obviously, you've got to learn all of the techniques of clinical trial designs, statistics, etc. But what other advice would you give a trainee hoping to pursue a career in clinical investigation? Dr. Richard Pazdur: I think one's career always has to go back to the basics and have a patient focus. So, what is your interest in the patient, so to speak? And that is what advice I would give them. Are you interested in a supportive care issue? Are you interested in a specific disease? I think you have to follow a passion and that is what is most important to me. What is your passion in life? Because as physicians, we spend a great deal of time preparing for our careers and then subsequently afterward, in our designated careers, and you really can't approach this as a job. It has to be a passion. So, if you do have this, what are the questions that you really want to answer? What is the field that you want to go into and make an indelible mark in? So, that's what I come from, and that's something that I tell our staff is: what do you really want to do? What makes you happy? What would make you a success in your mind? Not defining yourself by somebody else. Dr. Pat Loehrer: Finish the story a little bit. Was it a patient then that turned you on to oncology? What brought you into oncology? Dr. Richard Pazdur: I had a very circuitous circular route to oncology. Oh my God! I don't know if you have enough time to hear this story, but let me start though. I originally went to medical school because of my background in sociology. I wanted to become a psychiatrist because here again, I thought psychiatry, sociology, and psychology, these are kinds of things I was interested in until I took my first rotation in psychiatry. It was nothing like I thought it was going to be. I saw my first patient that got ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy) and I said, 'I ain't doing this.' So, I was then interested in cardiology. Loyola at that time where I was going to medical school and where I did my internship and residency, had a huge cardiology program that was like CAST city, USA. Everybody was just coming into the hospital getting CAST and going out of the hospital. Dr. Pat Loehrer: [Unintelligible 18:13] was there, right? Dr. Richard Puzdar: Yes. Mary Kate [Unintelligible 18:18]'s father was the head of medicine there. And it had a huge cardiology program and an excellent cardiology program. I really did like Clinical Oncology, and I was all signed up for a cardiology fellowship, the Ts were crossed, the dots were placed, the contract signed, and everything. And somebody said, ‘Rick, why don't you take a rotation while you're a resident in the cath lab? We have an opening and this would be a great time and opportunity for you to jumpstart your fellowship. So, you can come and work for us in the middle of your third year of residency for about two or three months.' So, I did that and I hated it. I just dreaded it. I couldn't stand it. It was the most boring thing. I would think of every opportunity to escape the Cath lab. It was the same thing over and over and over again, inject the dye, turn on the [Unintelligible19:16] machine, and follow the coronary arteries. So, I happened to go to a community hospital, St. Francis in Evanston, Illinois, and I met an oncologist there that had just finished her fellowship. I really was very impressed by her clinical skills. She had finished her fellowship at the University of Chicago and worked with her there and was just amazed by really the quality of care that the oncologist gave patients with cancer. Previous to that, I had an interest also in oncology. At Loyola at that time, we had an oncologist his name was Ketty Badrinath, and he was an excellent clinical teacher. Now that I decided that I'm not going into cardiology, the first problem I have is to find a job and to find a fellowship in oncology. So, I started investigating oncology programs at St. Francis Hospital there. I went down to the gift shop and I said, I want $10 worth of quarters. I went to a payphone, closed the door of the payphone, dialed information, and got every oncology program that I could think of from Mayo Clinic to all of the programs in Chicago. One of my last phone calls was to Rush Presbyterian. I found that program director, Jules Harris, I don't know if you remember him, and he said, “We have an opening.” So, I accepted the position. At the end of June, whatever it was, June 27, 1979. I started my oncology fellowship program. Now Oncology at that time in Chicago, to give you a picture of it, the largest program in oncology was at Rush. It had a total of 12 people. And the therapy started at Rush around solid tumors really in the endocrine therapies of prostate cancer and breast cancer. So, it was a different program than most programs throughout the United States that were offshoots of Hematology programs and the treatment of acute leukemia and lymphomas. So, it had a really kind of different orientation. So, I started my fellowship. And on the first day, I met Phil Bonomi, who had a tremendous influence and still has an influence over me. I know no doctor that I respect most more than Phil. I think the greatest compliment that one could give a doctor is to refer your own family to him. And I've done it on numerous occasions with various cousins and aunts and uncles, etc. But as you mentioned, Pat, I also had the opportunity to meet my wife. And I met her and at first, we were very good friends and there was no romantic relationship. And then, as time proceeded, we knew that there was something special there. My wife was just a wonderful person. Like myself, my wife was pretty much a self-made person. She was one of eight children, the oldest daughter. As the oldest daughter, she had to assume a lot of childcare responsibilities, cooking, etc, for all of her brothers and sisters and took care of the younger children. But she was an excellent student. She graduated first in her class. She was a national merit finalist. I often asked my wife, ‘Mary, you're a nurse, are you interested in going into medicine? I'll be happy to work with you to get you into medical school.' And she said, ‘No, you want to go into medicine, I want to go into nursing.' That was her orientation toward other people. It wasn't about the buck. It wasn't about the title. It was about the work of helping other people. I really have to honor her mother and father who gave her that orientation. Of interest, all of her sisters are nurses. Her mother was actually a school nurse, and an original graduate of Rush. She went to Rush Nursing School in the 50s but had to leave because at that time in the 1950s, if you got married, you can't be in nursing school, they kicked you out. So, it shows you how times have changed.   Dr. Pat Loehrer: Well, this concludes part one of our interview with Dr. Richard Pazdur who is the director of the US Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Center of Excellence. Stay tuned for part two of this conversation where we'll hear how cancer has touched his life personally and will explore the initiatives and programs, he started to improve patient care globally.   Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning into Oncology, Etc. This is an ASCO education podcast where we'll talk about just about everything and anything. If you have an idea for a topic or guests you'd like to see on the show, please email us at education@asco.org. Have a good week.   Unknown Speaker: Thank you for listening to the ASCO Education podcast. To stay up to date with the latest episodes. Please click subscribe. Let us know what you think by leaving a review. For more information, visit the comprehensive education center at education.asco.org.   The purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. Guest statements on the podcast do not express the opinions of ASCO. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement.    

This episode features Thomas Burke, President at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center - Hartford. Here, he discusses Saint Francis's focus on quality, the importance of being a life-long learner & having empathy, how healthcare has shifted since the start of the pandemic, and more.

01:03 The big media and activist lie regarding police UOF 09:31 Security guard killed by own weapon during struggle LEO Round Table (law enforcement talk show) Season 7, Episode 23d (1,748) filmed on 06/06/2022 Topic 1 concerns Jackson County (Missouri) Prosecutor's Office releasing actual bodycam evidence of the fatal shooting of Leonna Hale by Kansas City (Missouri) police, after false news reports claimed she was an unarmed pregnant woman. Councilwoman Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn claiming the St. Francis Hospital mass shooting was a result of white supremacy, however, the shooter was identified as a black male. Also mentioned: Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker. Topic 2 concerns Metro Nashville (Tennessee) Police Officers Trevor Taylor Steven Luckey, and Blake Curry, shooting a gunman who robbed a liquor store and fatally shot security guard, Robert Scott Meek. Show Panelists and Personalities: Chip DeBlock (Host and retired police Detective) Ward Meythaler (Attorney and former Federal Prosecutor) Dan O'Kelly (retired ATF S/Agent) John Newman (retired police assistant Chief) Randy Sutton (retired police Lieutenant) David D'Agresta (retired police Officer and sheriff's Corporal) Will Statzer (Producer) Content Partners: ThisIsButter - One of the BEST law enforcement video channels https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisIsButter1/ The Free Press - LEO Round Table is in their Cops and Crimes section 5 days a week https://www.tampafp.com/ https://www.tampafp.com/category/cops-and-crime/ Video Show Schedule: Mondays at 7pm ET - 90 minute LIVE show on YouTube, Facebook1, Facebook2, LinkedIn and Twitter Tue - Sat at 9am ET - Excerpts from LIVE show are uploaded to YouTube and Rumble (approx. time) Syndicated Radio Schedule: http://leoroundtable.com/radio/syndicated-radio-stations/ Podcasts: https://anchor.fm/leoroundtable Website: http://leoroundtable.com/ Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/leoroundtable Parler: https://parler.com/profile/LEORoundTable/media YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leoroundtable Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leoroundtable/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LEORoundTable LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leo-round-table Sponsors: Galls - Proud To Serve America's Public Safety Professionals https://www.galls.com/ Bang Energy - Energy drinks and products https://bangenergy.com/ The International Firearm Specialist Academy - The New Standard for Firearm Knowledge https://www.gunlearn.com/ Guardian Alliance Technologies - Hire Smarter, Investigate Applicants with Precision & Speed https://guardianalliancetechnologies.com/ MyMedicare.live - save money in Medicare insurance options from the experts http://www.mymedicare.live/ TAC-TOTE - Rapid access and deployment with magnetic technology https://tac-tote.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/leoroundtable/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leoroundtable/support

Today's show begins immediately following a press conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, site of yesterday's mass shooting at St. Francis Hospital that left four people dead. According to the timeline police presented, one of the victims, Dr. Preston Phillips, performed back surgery on the suspected gunman, Michael Louis, on May 19. Louis had a follow-up appointment with Phillips on May 31, during which he complained of back pain. In between, Louis went to a gun store and bought a semi-automatic handgun. Then yesterday, Louis bought an AR-15-style rifle. CNN's Lucy Kafanov provides live coverage from Tulsa. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Three people were killed in a shooting at a Tulsa medical building, Tulsa Police said. The shooter also is dead. Police say they are continuing to clear the Natalie Medical Building on the St. Francis Hospital campus. A police spokesperson said earlier that the building has hundreds of rooms that must be checked during the evacuation.

Tulsa Police UPDATE — we now have 5 dead, including the shooter, in the active shooter situation at the Natalie Building on the St. Francis Hospital Campus. Angela-the-Overeducated --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message

Tulsa Police UPDATE — we now have 5 dead, including the shooter, in the active shooter situation at the Natalie Building on the St. Francis Hospital Campus. Angela-the-Overeducated --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/you-betterknow4/message

Dr. John Rodis, former president of St. Francis Hospital and CEO of Arista Health, talks with Donna about his experience of leading a healthcare organization during the height of COVID and what it taught him about how he and other leaders must respond to the needs of clinicians and staff. He also addresses misconceptions about healthcare C-suite executives. During this episode, you will learn about:The experience of leading a hospital during an unprecedented global pandemicOpportunities and challenges that healthcare leaders face in supporting clinician and staff well-beingMisconceptions about healthcare C-suite executives Med-IQ is a leading provider of clinical and risk management education, consulting services, and quality improvement solutions, empowering individuals at every level of the healthcare delivery system with the knowledge they need to continuously improve provider performance and patient outcomes.This information is intended to provide general information (or education). It is not intended and should not be construed as legal or medical advice.Music and lyrics: Nancy Burger and Scott Weber.

Authorities said an Evanston man hacked his sister to death with a 15-inch butcher's knife after she complained he was not doing enough housework. Karen Aphour, 30, was found lying in a pool of her blood on the kitchen floor of the home she shared with her mother and siblings in the 100 block of Callan Avenue around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, according to prosecutors. Evanston Fire Department paramedics rushed her to St. Francis Hospital, but she was pronounced dead shortly before 10 p.m., police said. Andy Aphour, her 26-year-old brother, is charged with the first-degree murder of his sister. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leah-gordone/support

- Discuss challenges that were overcome - What is an effective leader - How do you maximize productivity and pivot when needed Michael Magro Foundation is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization founded by Paul and Terrie Magro to honor the life of their son Michael, who passed away from leukemia at the age of 13. The Foundation works with the Cancer Center for Kids at NYU Langone LI Hospital, Stony Brook Children's CancerDivision, Cohen's Children's Hospital, and other pediatric specialties where treatment of chronic diseases is ongoing. Terrie Magro is a Registered Nurse. She started her clinical career at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn. Completed her graduate degree in nursing from NYU and transitioned into a Clinical Nurse Specialist role part-time and accepted an adjunct faculty position at Adelphi's undergraduate school of nursing. "The opportunity arose to move into the corporate sector and I joined a medical supply company and diabetes supply company in a sales capacity. I have recently retired from NYU Langone Long Island where I worked as a physician liaison in the department of pediatrics. In 2004 when my boys became sick and Michael passed away I started with my husband Paul a 501c3 in Michael's memory; Michael Magro Foundation. I am the VP of the organization, we incorporated in 2005 and are in our 17th-year as a non-profit. I now run the foundation along with my all-volunteer board full-time."Name of your organization: Michael Magro Foundation Website: www.michaelmagrofoundation.comFacebook: Michael Magro FoundationInstagram: @michaelmagrofoundationLinkedIn: Michael Magro FoundationTune in for this sensible conversation at TalkRadio.nyc or watch the Facebook Livestream by Clicking Here.

Lauren chats with Brooke Jackson Kahn, who persevered when she was doubted by most. Brooke is a Physician Assistant and a US Army combat veteran. She started her career as an Active Duty combat medic and now serves in the US Army Reserves as a PA. Brooke is the founder of “She's the Veteran” a female-only veteran community located in Charleston, South Carolina. In this episode we discuss: Going after what you want even when you are doubted Having a strong mindset How female veterans aren't given the respect and resources that they deserve How to support female veterans To Reserve Your Confidence Bootcamp Spot: Confidence Bootcamp  Stay Connected with Lauren on Instagram: @lauren.kubat Stay Connected with Brooke on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shestheveteran/?hl=en Brooke's Email: brooke@shestheveteran.org Brooke's Phone Number: 843-595-2920 She's The Veteran Website: shestheveteran.org/ To Become Financially Fit: www.debraohstrom.com Connect With Debra Ohstrom On Instagram: @debraohstrom1 Want all the details for the Confidence Bootcamp? Send An Email To: lkubatpt@gmail.com, subject line “Confidence Bootcamp”  Learn More About Lauren: https://www.laurenkubat.com/ Brooke Jackson Kahn is a Physician Assistant and a US Army combat veteran. She started her career as an Active Duty combat medic and now serves in the US Army Reserves as a PA. Brooke is the founder of “She's the Veteran” a female-only veteran community located in Charleston, South Carolina. Her focus is advocating, connecting, and improving their mental health. Brooke has most recently been selected to the South Carolina Women Veterans Leadership Board for the VA. The board will become a think tank and advocate for important changes to women's healthcare. Her published writings can be found on “PA Moms Blog,” and the “Veteran Semi-Professional” website. She currently practices as a Neurosurgical PA at Roper St. Francis Hospital and is the Executive Director/Founder of  “She's the Veteran” non-profit.  

Nelson Chen Fernandez, MD has been a board certified family physician since 2010. He obtained his degree of Doctor in Medicine at the Universidad de Panama in 2004. He performed his residency at St. Francis Hospital in Wilmington, DE from 2007-2010, where he was also Chief Resident from 2009-2010. Dr. Fernandez received the AAFP Teaching Award in 2009. He was the Virginia Community Healthcare Association Provider of the year in 2013. He was also the Virginia Commonwealth University Clinical Preceptor for the School of Nursing in 2012 to 2014 and VCU Clinical Preceptor for 3rd year Medical.

This episode's Community Champion Sponsor is Catalyst. To virtually tour Catalyst and claim your space on campus, or host an upcoming event: https://www.catalysthealthtech.com/ (CLICK HERE) --- After personally experiencing persistent inefficient knowledge transfer between him and his patients, our next guest is making it his mission to enhance physician efficiency by incorporating doctor-created digital explanations into their practice. Dr. David Grew, CEO of PRIMR, joins us to discuss how he utilizes his passion for teaching to build a digital platform for healthcare providers who can create curated medical content for their patients to view securely and on-demand and free from misinformation. Join us to find out how Dr. Grew and his team are shifting the current knowledge paradigm by creating a new future for healthcare communication and education at scale. Let's go! Episode Highlights: How Dr. Grew's time doing whiteboard teaching for medical students served as the big lightbulb movement to create PRIMR PRIMR's aim to solve the inefficient knowledge transfer between doctor and patient How Dr. Grew overcame the hurdle of ensuring the security of patient-specific data and information Dr. Grew's advice and insights for those interested in pursuing entrepreneurship Where PRIMR's content creation focus fits into an industry where automations and workflows are quickly advancing  About our Guest:  David Grew is a radiation oncologist and the founder of PRIMR, a new platform for doctors to share digitally recorded versions of their common explanations with patients.  He is the chair of the Cancer Committee at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, CT and has numerous peer reviewed publications and oral presentations at international medical conferences on an array of cancer types including head and neck, breast, lung, gastrointestinal and prostate cancer.  His vision for doctors in the future: "Where my predecessors sketched on exam table paper, the next generation of doctors will conduct an orchestra of their own digital assets."  He is a pioneer in the growing new category of doctor creators. Links Supporting This Episode: PRIMR website: https://www.primrmed.com/ (CLICK HERE) Dr. David Grew LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-grew-27b3b8a4/ (CLICK HERE) Dr. David Grew Twitter page: https://twitter.com/DoctorGrew (CLICK HERE) Clubhouse handle: @mikebiselli Mike Biselli LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikebiselli (CLICK HERE) Mike Biselli Twitter page: https://twitter.com/mikebiselli (CLICK HERE) Visit our website: https://www.passionatepioneers.com/ (CLICK HERE) Subscribe to newsletter: https://forms.gle/PLdcj7ujAGEtunsj6 (CLICK HERE) Guest nomination form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScqk_H_a79gCRsBLynkGp7JbdtFRWynTvPVV9ntOdEpExjQIQ/viewform (CLICK HERE) Support this podcast

September is National Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month. Courtney talks with the President of Saint Francis Hospital about her charity event.

To the outside world, Dr. George Reardon was a prominent endocrinologist in the Hartford, CT area directing his own long-term growth study on pediatric patients out of St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center. However, when thousands of obscene child porn images are found in the basement of his house 10 years after his death, the community is forced to realize that the whole study was just a guise to sexually abuse children for over 30 years. For a full list of all episode references and pictures, visit our case files and pictures page! https://www.ethicalsideeffects.com/episode-case-filesEmail: ethicalsideeffectspodcast@gmail.com Buy Merch, Subscribe, & Follow Us!https://linktr.ee/EthicalSideEffects Go to https://partner.canva.com/ESEFFECTS to get started with a one-month free trial of Canva Pro today! Stop scrolling and starting listening now, with Newsly! Use promo code ESEFFECT at newsly.me and receive a 1-month free premium subscriptionSupport the show

Dr.Koval talks about the new cancer care center at St. Francis Hospital.

Dr. David Cohen is the Director of Clinical and Outcomes Research at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York, NY. He is also a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University School of Medicine. In addition, he is a practicing interventional and structural cardiologist at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY as well as their Director of Academic Affairs. Dr. Cohen completed his MD at Harvard Medical School along with a Masters degree in Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. From there, he completed his training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Following that, he did his cardiology and interventional cardiology training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. In this podcast, Dr. Cohen talks about what it's like to be an interventional and structural cardiologist in addition to being a Director of Academic Affairs and Professor, his unique hobby that helps him relax, and his reasons for getting into cardiology. Dr. Cohen also describes in simple words what occurs during a minimally invasive heart catheterization and a coronary angioplasty procedure. White Coat Story is a podcast series for school students to gain first-person insights into the practice of medicine, and what it takes to get there.

This episode features Charles Lucore, President of St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center. Here, he discusses how his strategies are evolving, competition, what he's most excited about for the future, and more.

Learn more about the revised CISR Elements of Risk Management Course!Tom Franzen has spent the entirety of his four-generation spanning career in the insurance and risk management industry. His career has taken him from company-based work to the agency side where he served as Vice-President and a principal of Scheller Insurance Agency, Inc. for nearly 40 years. He continues to enjoy his role as President at Thomas F. Franzen & Co. Insurance and Risk Management consulting firm. An attendee of McKendree College, Tom received his CIC designation in 1979, his ARM designation in 2008, ARM-P credentials in 2010, and added the MLIS designation in 2018. His passion for sharing knowledge with others in the industry has led him to opportunities such as consulting, serving as a faculty member for the National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research, and various speaking engagements with convention groups about insurance and risk management related topics. He is also an active member of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS).Tom recognizes being a professional in his community means giving back where his skillset and insights are applicable via volunteer service roles, such as Board Member of First National Bank of Litchfield and recently serving for multiple years as Chairman of the Board at St. Francis Hospital.Beth Ottolini began her career in secondary education and made the switch to the corporate world after earning her Master's in Educational Technology from Michigan State University. She has spent the last six years of her career developing training programs for insurance and risk management professionals. Beth has experience with all facets of learning and development including corporate training, learning management system (LMS) administration and instructional design. She is passionate about leveraging innovative eLearning strategies and tools to create on-demand training experiences for adult learners.Sarah Warhaftig is the Academic Director of Risk Management Programs for the National Alliance where she is responsible for the Certified Risk Manager, the Certified School Risk Manager, and the Certified Personal Risk Manager designation programs.  Sarah held the positions of Director of Operations for Aparicio, Walker & Seeling, and was immediate past President of AWS Risk Management, LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. Clients included public entities, third party administrators, Boards, and private corporations. She consulted with large municipal and not-for-profit clients regarding their insurance and risk management programs. Sarah was responsible for assisting clients in managing through insurance program transitions. Post Hurricane Katrina, she worked with municipal clients in Stafford Act compliance, quantifying losses and perfecting claims, as well as analyzing continued risk retention abilities. As Vice President/State Director of Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc., a third-party claims administrator licensed in 38 states, Sarah was responsible for day-to-day operations, as well as profit and loss accountability for branches throughout Louisiana. Sarah served on the Municipal Account Business Development Team and as account manager for several entities, including the City of New Orleans, the City of Memphis, Jefferson Parish, and the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board.  During the course of her career, Sarah has held positions as risk management director, assistant vice-president of claims, and regional claims manager. She is a graduate of Tulane University and of Rutgers Law School. 

Join Geoffrey Stern, Rabbi Adam Mintz and Rabbi Hirsh Chinn on Clubhouse Friday May 21st at 4:00pm (ET). The Torah is ambivalent with regard to the sobriety of the Nazarine. Is the Nazir a holy man striving for greater spirituality or an addict seeking rehab for a moral shortcoming… or both? Rabbi Hirsh Chinn was Geoffrey’s roommate at Yeshivah Torah Vodaath. He was a student of the recently deceased Rabbi and Dr. Abraham J Twersky, who according to his obit in the New York Times was “the descendant of several Hasidic dynasties. Yet he was also a psychiatrist and a respected authority on addiction who was drawn to the 12-step approach central to Alcoholics Anonymous, a program whose origins are Christian….. (see more here). Rabbi Hirsh actually edited a Hagadah written by Dr. Twerski which is based on the premise that “The original passage from bondage to freedom, Exodus, is equated to a person with a substance abuse problem and their passage to freedom through recovery. (see here) ---------------- sefaria Source sheet here. The Biblical Nazarite - lessons in addiction, sobriety and joyful  living 1.   במדבר ו׳:א׳-י״א (א) וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר ה' אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃ (ב) דַּבֵּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ אֲלֵהֶ֑ם אִ֣ישׁ אֽוֹ־אִשָּׁ֗ה כִּ֤י יַפְלִא֙ לִנְדֹּר֙ נֶ֣דֶר נָזִ֔יר לְהַזִּ֖יר לַֽה'׃ (ג) מִיַּ֤יִן וְשֵׁכָר֙ יַזִּ֔יר חֹ֥מֶץ יַ֛יִן וְחֹ֥מֶץ שֵׁכָ֖ר לֹ֣א יִשְׁתֶּ֑ה וְכׇל־מִשְׁרַ֤ת עֲנָבִים֙ לֹ֣א יִשְׁתֶּ֔ה וַעֲנָבִ֛ים לַחִ֥ים וִיבֵשִׁ֖ים לֹ֥א יֹאכֵֽל׃ (ד) כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֑וֹ מִכֹּל֩ אֲשֶׁ֨ר יֵעָשֶׂ֜ה מִגֶּ֣פֶן הַיַּ֗יִן מֵחַרְצַנִּ֛ים וְעַד־זָ֖ג לֹ֥א יֹאכֵֽל׃ (ה) כׇּל־יְמֵי֙ נֶ֣דֶר נִזְר֔וֹ תַּ֖עַר לֹא־יַעֲבֹ֣ר עַל־רֹאשׁ֑וֹ עַד־מְלֹ֨את הַיָּמִ֜ם אֲשֶׁר־יַזִּ֤יר לַה' קָדֹ֣שׁ יִהְיֶ֔ה גַּדֵּ֥ל פֶּ֖רַע שְׂעַ֥ר רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃ (ו) כׇּל־יְמֵ֥י הַזִּיר֖וֹ לַה' עַל־נֶ֥פֶשׁ מֵ֖ת לֹ֥א יָבֹֽא׃ (ז) לְאָבִ֣יו וּלְאִמּ֗וֹ לְאָחִיו֙ וּלְאַ֣חֹת֔וֹ לֹא־יִטַּמָּ֥א לָהֶ֖ם בְּמֹתָ֑ם כִּ֛י נֵ֥זֶר אֱלֹקָ֖יו עַל־רֹאשֽׁוֹ׃ (ח) כֹּ֖ל יְמֵ֣י נִזְר֑וֹ קָדֹ֥שׁ ה֖וּא לַֽה'׃ (ט) וְכִֽי־יָמ֨וּת מֵ֤ת עָלָיו֙ בְּפֶ֣תַע פִּתְאֹ֔ם וְטִמֵּ֖א רֹ֣אשׁ נִזְר֑וֹ וְגִלַּ֤ח רֹאשׁוֹ֙ בְּי֣וֹם טׇהֳרָת֔וֹ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י יְגַלְּחֶֽנּוּ׃ (י) וּבַיּ֣וֹם הַשְּׁמִינִ֗י יָבִא֙ שְׁתֵּ֣י תֹרִ֔ים א֥וֹ שְׁנֵ֖י בְּנֵ֣י יוֹנָ֑ה אֶ֨ל־הַכֹּהֵ֔ן אֶל־פֶּ֖תַח אֹ֥הֶל מוֹעֵֽד׃ (יא) וְעָשָׂ֣ה הַכֹּהֵ֗ן אֶחָ֤ד לְחַטָּאת֙ וְאֶחָ֣ד לְעֹלָ֔ה וְכִפֶּ֣ר עָלָ֔יו מֵאֲשֶׁ֥ר חָטָ֖א עַל־הַנָּ֑פֶשׁ וְקִדַּ֥שׁ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֖וֹ בַּיּ֥וֹם הַהֽוּא׃   Numbers 6:1-11 (1) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Speak to the Israelites and say to them: If anyone, man or woman, explicitly utters a nazirite’s vow, to set himself apart for the LORD, (3) he shall abstain from wine and any other intoxicant; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or of any other intoxicant, neither shall he drink anything in which grapes have been steeped, nor eat grapes fresh or dried. (4) Throughout his term as nazirite, he may not eat anything that is obtained from the grapevine, even seeds or skin. (5) Throughout the term of his vow as nazirite, no razor shall touch his head; it shall remain consecrated until the completion of his term as nazirite of the LORD, the hair of his head being left to grow untrimmed. (6) Throughout the term that he has set apart for the LORD, he shall not go in where there is a dead person. (7) Even if his father or mother, or his brother or sister should die, he must not defile himself for them, since hair set apart for his God is upon his head: (8) throughout his term as nazirite he is consecrated to the LORD. (9) If a person dies suddenly near him, defiling his consecrated hair, he shall shave his head on the day he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day. (10) On the eighth day he shall bring two turtledoves or two pigeons to the priest, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. (11) The priest shall offer one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, and make expiation on his behalf for the guilt that he incurred through the corpse. That same day he shall reconsecrate his head       ה. 5.   רמב"ן על במדבר ו׳:י״א:א׳ וטעם החטאת שיקריב הנזיר ביום מלאת ימי נזרו לא נתפרש. ועל דרך הפשט כי האיש הזה חוטא נפשו במלאת הנזירות כי הוא עתה נזור מקדושתו ועבודת השם וראוי היה לו שיזיר לעולם ויעמוד כל ימיו נזיר וקדוש לאלקיו כענין שאמר (עמוס ב יא) ואקים מבניכם לנביאים ומבחוריכם לנזירים. השוה אותו הכתוב לנביא וכדכתיב (במדבר ו׳:ח׳) כל ימי נזרו קדוש הוא לה' והנה הוא צריך כפרה בשובו להטמא בתאוות העולם:   Ramban on Numbers 6:11:1 AND THE PRIEST SHALL PREPARE ONE FOR A SIN-OFFERING. The reason why a Nazirite must bring a sin-offering when the days of his Naziritehood are fulfilled has not been explained. In accordance with the plain meaning of Scripture, [it is because] this man sins against his soul on the day of completion of his Naziritehood; for until now he was separated in sanctity and the service of G-d, and he should therefore have remained separated forever, continuing all his life consecrated and sanctified to his G-d, as it is said, And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazirites, where Scripture compares the Nazirite to a prophet, and as it is written, All the days of his Naziritehood he is holy unto the Eternal. Thus [when he completes his Naziritehood and returns to his normal life] he requires atonement, since he goes back to be defiled by [material] desires of the world.       ו. 6.   שבת ל״ג ב דְּיָתְבִי רַבִּי יְהוּדָה וְרַבִּי יוֹסֵי וְרַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן, וְיָתֵיב יְהוּדָה בֶּן גֵּרִים גַּבַּיְיהוּ. פָּתַח רַבִּי יְהוּדָה וְאָמַר: כַּמָּה נָאִים מַעֲשֵׂיהֶן שֶׁל אוּמָּה זוֹ: תִּקְּנוּ שְׁווֹקִים, תִּקְּנוּ גְּשָׁרִים, תִּקְנוּ מֶרְחֲצָאוֹת. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי שָׁתַק. נַעֲנָה רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחַאי וְאָמַר: כׇּל מַה שֶּׁתִּקְּנוּ, לֹא תִּקְּנוּ אֶלָּא לְצוֹרֶךְ עַצְמָן. תִּקְּנוּ שְׁווֹקִין — לְהוֹשִׁיב בָּהֶן זוֹנוֹת, מֶרְחֲצָאוֹת — לְעַדֵּן בָּהֶן עַצְמָן, גְּשָׁרִים — לִיטּוֹל מֵהֶן מֶכֶס. הָלַךְ יְהוּדָה בֶּן גֵּרִים וְסִיפֵּר דִּבְרֵיהֶם, וְנִשְׁמְעוּ לַמַּלְכוּת. אָמְרוּ: יְהוּדָה שֶׁעִילָּה — יִתְעַלֶּה. יוֹסֵי שֶׁשָּׁתַק — יִגְלֶה לְצִיפּוֹרִי. שִׁמְעוֹן שֶׁגִּינָּה — יֵהָרֵג. אֲזַל הוּא וּבְרֵיהּ, טְשׁוֹ בֵּי מִדְרְשָׁא. כׇּל יוֹמָא הֲוָה מַתְיָא לְהוּ דְּבֵיתְהוּ רִיפְתָּא וְכוּזָא דְמַיָּא וְכָרְכִי. כִּי תְּקֵיף גְּזֵירְתָא אֲמַר לֵיהּ לִבְרֵיהּ: נָשִׁים דַּעְתָּן קַלָּה עֲלֵיהֶן, דִילְמָא מְצַעֲרִי לַהּ וּמְגַלְּיָא לַן. אֲזַלוּ טְשׁוֹ בִּמְעָרְתָּא. אִיתְרְחִישׁ נִיסָּא אִיבְּרִי לְהוּ חָרוּבָא וְעֵינָא דְמַיָּא, וַהֲווֹ מַשְׁלְחִי מָנַיְיהוּ וַהֲווֹ יָתְבִי עַד צַוְּארַיְיהוּ בְּחָלָא. כּוּלֵּי יוֹמָא גָּרְסִי. בְּעִידָּן צַלּוֹיֵי לָבְשִׁי מִיכַּסּוּ וּמְצַלּוּ, וַהֲדַר מַשְׁלְחִי מָנַיְיהוּ כִּי הֵיכִי דְּלָא לִיבְלוּ. אִיתִּיבוּ תְּרֵיסַר שְׁנֵי בִּמְעָרְתָּא. אֲתָא אֵלִיָּהוּ וְקָם אַפִּיתְחָא דִמְעָרְתָּא, אֲמַר: מַאן לוֹדְעֵיהּ לְבַר יוֹחַי דְּמִית קֵיסָר וּבְטִיל גְּזֵירְתֵיהּ. נְפַקוּ, חֲזוֹ אִינָשֵׁי דְּקָא כָּרְבִי וְזָרְעִי, אָמְרִין: מַנִּיחִין חַיֵּי עוֹלָם וְעוֹסְקִין בְּחַיֵּי שָׁעָה. כׇּל מָקוֹם שֶׁנּוֹתְנִין עֵינֵיהֶן מִיָּד נִשְׂרָף. יָצְתָה בַּת קוֹל וְאָמְרָה לָהֶם: לְהַחֲרִיב עוֹלָמִי יְצָאתֶם?! חִיזְרוּ לִמְעָרַתְכֶם! הֲדוּר אֲזוּל אִיתִּיבוּ תְּרֵיסַר יַרְחֵי שַׁתָּא. אָמְרִי: מִשְׁפַּט רְשָׁעִים בְּגֵיהִנָּם שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר חֹדֶשׁ. יָצְתָה בַּת קוֹל וְאָמְרָה: צְאוּ מִמְּעָרַתְכֶם! נְפַקוּ. כָּל הֵיכָא דַּהֲוָה מָחֵי רַבִּי אֶלְעָזָר, הֲוָה מַסֵּי רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן. אָמַר לוֹ: בְּנִי, דַּי לָעוֹלָם אֲנִי וְאַתָּה. בַּהֲדֵי פַּנְיָא דְּמַעֲלֵי שַׁבְּתָא חֲזוֹ הָהוּא סָבָא דַּהֲוָה נָקֵיט תְּרֵי מַדָּאנֵי אָסָא וְרָהֵיט בֵּין הַשְּׁמָשׁוֹת. אֲמַרוּ לֵיהּ: הָנֵי לְמָה לָךְ? אֲמַר לְהוּ: לִכְבוֹד שַׁבָּת. וְתִיסְגֵּי לָךְ בְּחַד! — חַד כְּנֶגֶד ״זָכוֹר״ וְחַד כְּנֶגֶד ״שָׁמוֹר״. אֲמַר לֵיהּ לִבְרֵיהּ: חֲזִי כַּמָּה חֲבִיבִין מִצְוֹת עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל. אִיְּתִיבָה דַּעְתַּיְיהוּ. שְׁמַע רַבִּי פִּנְחָס בֶּן יָאִיר חַתְנֵיהּ וּנְפַק לְאַפֵּיהּ. עַיְּילֵיהּ לְבֵי בָנֵי, הֲוָה קָא אָרֵיךְ לֵיהּ לְבִישְׂרֵיהּ. חֲזָא דַּהֲוָה בֵּיהּ פִּילֵי בְּגוּפֵיהּ. הֲוָה קָא בָכֵי וְקָא נָתְרָן דִּמְעָת עֵינֵיהּ וְקָמְצַוְּחָא לֵיהּ. אָמַר לוֹ: אוֹי לִי שֶׁרְאִיתִיךָ בְּכָךְ. אָמַר לוֹ: אַשְׁרֶיךָ שֶׁרְאִיתַנִי בְּכָךְ, שֶׁאִילְמָלֵא לֹא רְאִיתַנִי בְּכָךְ — לֹא מָצָאתָ בִּי כָּךְ. דְּמֵעִיקָּרָא כִּי הֲוָה מַקְשֵׁי רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחַי קוּשְׁיָא, הֲוָה מְפָרֵק לֵיהּ רַבִּי פִּנְחָס בֶּן יָאִיר תְּרֵיסַר פֵּירוּקֵי. לְסוֹף, כִּי הֲוָה מַקְשֵׁי רַבִּי פִּנְחָס בֶּן יָאִיר קוּשְׁיָא — הֲוָה מְפָרֵק לֵיהּ רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֶּן יוֹחַי עֶשְׂרִין וְאַרְבְּעָה פֵּירוּקֵי. אֲמַר: הוֹאִיל וְאִיתְרְחִישׁ נִיסָּא אֵיזִיל אַתְקֵין מִילְּתָא. דִּכְתִיב: ״וַיָּבֹא יַעֲקֹב שָׁלֵם״, וְאָמַר רַב: שָׁלֵם בְּגוּפוֹ, שָׁלֵם בְּמָמוֹנוֹ, שָׁלֵם בְּתוֹרָתוֹ. ״וַיִּחַן אֶת פְּנֵי הָעִיר״, אָמַר רַב: מַטְבֵּעַ תִּיקֵּן לָהֶם, וּשְׁמוּאֵל אָמַר: שְׁווֹקִים תִּיקֵּן לָהֶם, וְרַבִּי יוֹחָנָן אָמַר: מֶרְחֲצָאוֹת תִּיקֵּן לָהֶם. אֲמַר: אִיכָּא מִילְּתָא דְּבָעֵי לְתַקּוֹנֵי? אֲמַרוּ לֵיהּ: אִיכָּא דּוּכְתָּא דְּאִית בֵּיהּ סְפֵק טוּמְאָה   Shabbat 33b when Rabbi Yehuda and Rabbi Yosei and Rabbi Shimon were sitting, and Yehuda, son of converts, sat beside them. Rabbi Yehuda opened and said: How pleasant are the actions of this nation, the Romans, as they established marketplaces, established bridges, and established bathhouses. Rabbi Yosei was silent. Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai responded and said: Everything that they established, they established only for their own purposes. They established marketplaces, to place prostitutes in them; bathhouses, to pamper themselves; and bridges, to collect taxes from all who pass over them. Yehuda, son of converts, went and related their statements to his household, and those statements continued to spread until they were heard by the monarchy. They ruled and said: Yehuda, who elevated the Roman regime, shall be elevated and appointed as head of the Sages, the head of the speakers in every place. Yosei, who remained silent, shall be exiled from his home in Judea as punishment, and sent to the city of Tzippori in the Galilee. And Shimon, who denounced the government, shall be killed. Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai and his son, Rabbi Elazar, went and hid in the study hall. Every day Rabbi Shimon’s wife would bring them bread and a jug of water and they would eat. When the decree intensified, Rabbi Shimon said to his son: Women are easily impressionable and, therefore, there is room for concern lest the authorities torture her and she reveal our whereabouts. They went and they hid in a cave. A miracle occurred and a carob tree was created for them as well as a spring of water. They would remove their clothes and sit covered in sand up to their necks. They would study Torah all day in that manner. At the time of prayer, they would dress, cover themselves, and pray, and they would again remove their clothes afterward so that they would not become tattered. They sat in the cave for twelve years. Elijah the Prophet came and stood at the entrance to the cave and said: Who will inform bar Yoḥai that the emperor died and his decree has been abrogated? They emerged from the cave, and saw people who were plowing and sowing. Rabbi Shimon bar Yoḥai said: These people abandon eternal life of Torah study and engage in temporal life for their own sustenance. The Gemara relates that every place that Rabbi Shimon and his son Rabbi Elazar directed their eyes was immediately burned. A Divine Voice emerged and said to them: Did you emerge from the cave in order to destroy My world? Return to your cave. They again went and sat there for twelve months. They said: The judgment of the wicked in Gehenna lasts for twelve months. Surely their sin was atoned in that time. A Divine Voice emerged and said to them: Emerge from your cave. They emerged. Everywhere that Rabbi Elazar would strike, Rabbi Shimon would heal. Rabbi Shimon said to Rabbi Elazar: My son, you and I suffice for the entire world, as the two of us are engaged in the proper study of Torah. As the sun was setting on Shabbat eve, they saw an elderly man who was holding two bundles of myrtle branches and running at twilight. They said to him: Why do you have these? He said to them: In honor of Shabbat. They said to him: And let one suffice. He answered them: One is corresponding to: “Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it holy” (Exodus 20:8), and one is corresponding to: “Observe the Shabbat day, to keep it holy” (Deuteronomy 5:12). Rabbi Shimon said to his son: See how beloved the mitzvot are to Israel. Their minds were put at ease and they were no longer as upset that people were not engaged in Torah study. Rabbi Pineḥas ben Ya’ir, Rabbi Shimon’s son-in-law, heard and went out to greet him. He brought him into the bathhouse and began tending to his flesh. He saw that Rabbi Shimon had cracks in the skin on his body. He was crying, and the tears fell from his eyes and caused Rabbi Shimon pain. Rabbi Pineḥas said to Rabbi Shimon, his father-in-law: Woe is me, that I have seen you like this. Rabbi Shimon said to him: Happy are you that you have seen me like this, as had you not seen me like this, you would not have found in me this prominence in Torah, as the Gemara relates: At first, when Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai would raise a difficulty, Rabbi Pineḥas ben Ya’ir would respond to his question with twelve answers. Ultimately, when Rabbi Pineḥas ben Ya’ir would raise a difficulty, Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai would respond with twenty-four answers. Rabbi Shimon said: Since a miracle transpired for me, I will go and repair something for the sake of others in gratitude for God’s kindness, as it is written: “And Jacob came whole to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and he graced the countenance of the city” (Genesis 33:18). Rav said, the meaning of: And Jacob came whole, is: Whole in his body, whole in his money, whole in his Torah. And what did he do? And he graced the countenance of the city; he performed gracious acts to benefit the city. Rav said: Jacob established a currency for them. And Shmuel said: He established marketplaces for them. And Rabbi Yoḥanan said: He established bathhouses for them. In any event, clearly one for whom a miracle transpires should perform an act of kindness for his neighbors as a sign of gratitude. He said: Is there something that needs repair? They said to him: There is a place where there is uncertainty with regard to ritual impurity       ז. 7.   שמונה פרקים ד׳:ט׳ וזאת התורה התמימה המשלמת אותנו כמו שהעיד עליה יודעה, תורת י"י תמימה משיבת נפש, עדות י"י נאמנה מחכימת פתי, לא זכרה דבר מזה, ואמנם כוונה להיות האדם טבעי הולך בדרך האמצעיה, יאכל מה שיש לו לאכול בשויי, וישתה מה שיש לו לשתות בשווי, ויבעול מה שמותר לו לבעול בשווי, וישכון המדינות ביושר ואמונה לא שישכון במדברות ובהרים, ולא שילבש השער והצמר ולא שיענה גופו, והזהירה מזה לפי מה שבא בקבלה אמר בנזיר וכפר עליו מאשר חטא על הנפש, ואמרו ז"ל וכי על איזה נפש חטא זה, על שמנע עצמו מן היין, והלא הדברים קל וחומר אם מי שציער עצמו מן היין צריך כפרה, המצער עצמו מכל דבר על אחת כמה וכמה. ובדברי נביאנו וחכמי תורתינו ראינו שהם מכוונים אל השווי ושמירת נפשם וגופם על מה שתחייבהו התורה, וענה השם ית' על יד נביאו למי ששאל לצום יום אחד בשנה אם יתמיד עליו אם לא, והוא אמרם לזכריהו אבכה בחדש החמישי הנזר כאשר עשיתי זה כמה שנים, וענה אותם כי צמתם וספוד בחמישי ובשביעי זה שבעים שנה הצום צמתוני אני וכי תאכלו וכי תשתו הלא אתם האוכלים ואתם השותים, אחר כן צוה אותם ביושר ובמעלה לבד לא בצום, והוא אמרו להם כה אמר י"י צבאות לאמר משפט אמת שפטו וחסד ורחמים עשו איש את אחיו, ואמר אחר כן כה אמר י"י צבאות צום הרביעי וצום החמישי וצום השביעי וצום העשירי יהיו לבית יהודה לששון ולשמחה ולמועדים טובים והאמת והשלום אהבו, ודע שאמת הם המעלות השכליות מפני שהן אמיתיות לא ישתנו כמו שזכרנו בפרק השני, והשלום הם מעלות המדות אשר בהם יהיה השלום בעולם. ואשוב אל כוונתי שאם יאמרו אלו המתדמים באומות מאנשי תורתינו, שאיני מדבר כי אם בהם, שהם אינם עושים מה שעושים אותו מהטריח גופותם ופסוק הנאותיהם אלא על דרך הלמוד לכחות הנפש, כדי שיהיו נוטים אל הצד האחד מעט כפי מה שבארנו בזה הפרק שראוי שיהיה האדם כן, זהו טעות מהם כאשר אבאר.   Eight Chapters 4:9 Eight Chapters is Rambam’s introduction to Pirkei Avot.   The perfect Law which leads us to perfection as one who knew it well testifies by the words, (Psalms 19:8) "The Law of the Lord is perfect restoring the soul; the testimonies of the Lord are faithful making wise the simple" recommends none of these things (such as self-torture, flight from society etc.). On the contrary, it aims at man's following the path of moderation, in accordance with the dictates of nature, eating, drinking, enjoying legitimate sexual intercourse, all in moderation, and living among people in honesty and uprightness, but not dwelling in the wilderness or in the mountains, or clothing oneself in garments of hair and wool, or afflicting the body. The Law even warns us against these practices, if we interpret it according to what tradition tells us is the meaning of the passage concerning the Nazarite, (Numbers 6:11) "And he (the priest) shall make an atonement for him because he hath sinned against the soul." The Rabbis ask, "Against what soul has he sinned? Against his own soul, because he has deprived himself of wine. Is this not then a conclusion a minori ad majus? If one who deprives himself merely of wine must bring an atonement, how much more incumbent is it upon one who denies himself every enjoyment." By the words of our prophets and of the sages of our Law, we see that they were bent upon moderation and the care of their souls and bodies, in accordance with what the Law prescribes and with the answer which God gave through His prophet to those who asked whether the fast-day once a year should continue or not. They asked Zechariah, "Shall I weep in the fifth month with abstinence as I have done already these many years?" His, answer was, (Zachariah 7:3-7) "When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh (month) already these seventy years, did ye in anywise fast for me, yea for me? And if ye do eat and if ye do drink are ye not yourselves those that eat and yourselves those that drink?" After that, he enjoined upon them justice and virtue alone, and not fasting, when he said to them, (Zachariah 7:9) "Thus hath said the Lord of Hosts. Execute justice and show kindness and mercy every man to his brother." He said further, (Zachariah 8:19) "Thus hath said the Lord of Hosts, the fast- day of the fourth, and the fast-day of the fifth, and the fast of seventh, and the fast of the tenth (month) shall become to the house of Judah gladness, and joy, and merry festivals; only love ye truth and peace." Know that by "truth" the intellectual virtues are meant, for they are immutably true, as we have explained in Chapter 2, and that by "peace" the moral virtues are designated, for upon them depends the peace of the world. But to resume. Should those of our co-religionists and it is of them alone that I speak who imitate the followers of other religions, maintain that when they torment their bodies, and renounce every joy, that they do so merely to discipline the faculties of their souls by inclining somewhat to the one extreme, as is proper, and in accordance with our own recommendations in this chapter, our answer is that they are in error, as I shall now demonstrate.       ח. 8.   Rabbi Abraham J Twersky   Abraham J. Twerski was an Orthodox rabbi, the descendant of several Hasidic dynasties. Yet he was also a psychiatrist and a respected authority on addiction who was drawn to the 12-step approach central to Alcoholics Anonymous, a program whose origins are Christian. “He discovered in A.A. meetings the kind of sincere and even selfless fellow-feeling that was often absent in synagogues,” Andrew Heinze wrote in a 1999 profile of Rabbi Twerski for Judaism, the quarterly magazine of the American Jewish Congress. “He was moved by the example of men and women who would willingly be awakened in the middle of the night to go out and help a fellow alcoholic.” He saw no contradiction between the 12 steps and his belief in the laws of Torah, according to his granddaughter Chaya Ruchie Waldman. “The 12 steps may have been created by Christian believers,” she said, “but it was about spirituality, surrendering to a higher power, and that is synonymous with Judaism.” Rabbi Twerski melded an eclectic menu of treatments in his work as director of psychiatry at St. Francis Hospital in Pittsburgh. The Gateway Rehabilitation Center, which he founded, was named one of the top 12 rehabilitation clinics in the United States by Forbes magazine in 1987. He also wrote 80 books, many on Jewish topics but many others on addictive thinking and the addictive personality, all of which enhanced his international reputation as an authority on addiction.   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/science/abraham-j-twerski-dead-coronavirus.html   See:  Artscroll: Haggadah From Bondage to Freedom by Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski (English, Hebrew and Hebrew Edition) Hardcover – February 1, 1995 Hebrew Edition  by Abraham J. Twerski  (Author, Editor), Hirsh Michel Chinn (Editor)   It is hard to find books dealing with recovery from a Jewish perspective, this book is a great addition to your library. The original passage from bondage to freedom, Exodus, is equated to a person with a substance abuse problem and their passage to freedom through recovery.

Today we learn about a unique program that SC House Calls is doing with Roper St. Francis Hospital. Justin Workman, the program supervisor, shares about this great partnership that saves medicare dollars and has kept people safe through a pandemic. We hope you enjoy our conversation!

to help. They chose to be nurses at a time when the risk to their own health was never greater. Why are some people willing to run toward the fire when others are running away from it? Most of us fall somewhere on a spectrum of altruistic behavior. We might adopt a stray pet, donate a liter of blood, or check on an older neighbor. Others pursue a career based on helping others, and, at the extreme end of the spectrum, some choose to donate their kidney to a stranger or rush into traffic to save a stranger's life. We talk to two nurses, a kidney donor, and a psychologist about nursing and the nature of altruism. GUEST: Kelly Chevalier - Interim director of emergency services at Trinity Health of New England/St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center Tracy Gordon Fox - A former journalist for the Hartford Courant; she’s currently a staff nurse on the general surgery floor at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center Lauren Herschel - An anonymous kidney donor who lives in Calgary, Alberta Abigail Marsh - A professor of psychology and a neuroscientist in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University; she directs their Lab on Social & Affective Neuroscience, and she’s the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Psychopaths, Altruists, and Everyone In Between Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode we interview Neeraj Kaushik, M.D., FASGE, AGAF. He is the Director of Gastroenterology at St. Francis Hospital in Greenvale, NY. He is also a Sky Breath Meditation instructor. WE DISCUSS: As a Gastroenterologist, what is Dr. Kaushik’s background and experience with nutrition, from both his professional training, and personal experience as a Helix & Gene client? (5:00)What kind of training do Doctors get in nutrition? (9:30)What has been Dr. Kaushik’s path with regards to meditation, and how has he benefited from years of diligent, regular, daily practice? What is Sky Breath meditation? (16:00 – 22:00)How Dr. Kaushik defines the word ‘meditation’? (32:00)Why is all of this ‘nutrition and meditation stuff’ important … specifically for medical professionals and healthcare workers? Is the scientific world beginning to mesh with the spiritual one? (41:00)What is ‘physician burnout’ and why is it increasingly happening? (46:00) … and much more. Here's one fantastic quote from Dr. Kaushik: “The first thing that we do in our life is breathing, the last thing that we do in our life is breathing, and everything else in between is called ‘life’.” Enjoy LINKS FROM THE SHOW: To connect with Dr. Kaushik with regards to his services as a medical doctor of gastroenterology, his practice information is here: LI Gastroenterology Endoscopy PC 2200 Northern Blvd, Suite 212 Greenvale, NY 11548 (516) 590-3700 https://www.ligastroendo.com/about To learn more about Sky Breath Meditation, you can find an online course (or a course near you when physical workshops resume) at artofliving.org. Awaken the spiritual warrior within! Practice Zen57: https://zen57.com/ Podcast Music: “Limitless” by MusicbyAden & tubebackr: https://soundcloud.com/musicbyaden https://soundcloud.com/tubebackr Creative Commons — Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-ND 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/-limitless Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/RuXuT1xWUUg

In this special edition of our podcast, we're chatting with Dr. Gary Gecelter, the Chief of Surgery at St. Francis Hospital, and Mayor Ed Lieberman of Sea Cliff, NY to discuss what it's like being on the front lines of battling COVID-19. SHOW NOTES Mayor Ed details his experience as a community leader and a member of government making decisions on social matters to help ensure the safety of his people.Dr. Gecelter talks about the medical aspect of what he's personally faced dealing with COVID-19 as a first responder in the hospital systems.They both dive into what happened and what they experienced. The fears, the truths, the effects on them, their families, and the people who are testing positive for the coronavirus. Dr. Gecelter dives into the details of this disease and how it came about. He shares the changes the hospital and staff members had to make to get ready for this pandemic.He shares his frustration of his efforts falling shy of what he had wished could have been done and was not. Additionally, Dr. Gecelter highlights the amazing things we've done as a society and medical professionals to finally get to a point where we believe we have peaked.Mayor Ed talks about his decisions to close down parks and beaches as well as restaurants and other businesses alike.He shares his personal experience with the first responders (fire fighters, cops, EMTs) and how his town and their front line people came together and continue to come tougher through this process.Dr. Gecelter and Mayor Lieberman go back and forth to come up with solutions as to how the medical world can help better their response by helping the politicians create better legislation to implement a faster response to situations like COVID-19.Both feel that there's a light at the end of the tunnel. They discuss the effects of this on people emotionally, spiritually, financially, and psychologically.They discuss solutions and what they think will be the best way to get back to what will be looked at the new normal.

Applications to nursing schools spiked during the pandemic from those who wanted to help. They chose to be nurses at a time when the risk to their own health was never greater. Why are some people willing to run toward the fire when others are running away from it? Most of us fall somewhere on a spectrum of altruistic behavior. We might adopt a stray pet, donate a liter of blood, or check on an older neighbor. Others pursue a career based on helping others, and, at the extreme end of the spectrum, some choose to donate their kidney to a stranger. We talk to two nurses, a kidney donor, and a psychologist about the nature of altruism. GUEST: Kelly Chevalier - Interim director of emergency services at Trinity Health of New England/St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center Tracy Gordon Fox - A former journalist for the Hartford Courant; she’s currently a staff nurse on the general surgery floor at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center Lauren Herschel - An anonymous kidney donor who lives in Calgary, Alberta Abigail Marsh - A professor of psychology and a neuroscientist in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program at Georgetown University; she directs their Lab on Social & Affective Neuroscience, and she’s the author of The Fear Factor: How One Emotion Connects Psychopaths, Altruists, and Everyone In Between Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In Episode 116, I have the pleasure of conversing with Sylvie Heyman, the author of "Make it a HABIT" and "Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant's Search for Identity". She is a survivor of World War II . She started her career as a registered nurse specializing in obstetrics and later on, heading the cardiac operating room at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY, as an educator and administrator. Since then she was an acupuncturist and chiropractor and currently is a Certified Health Coach, focusing on five habits Habits of Health: healthy weight, healthy diet, healthy physical activities, healthy sleep, and healthy mindset. We speak about her 2 books, a preview of her upcoming 3rd book, the differences of surviving the Holacaust and World War II, her experiences in the health world, accountability, benefits of chess and more.

The Terror Hearings - Imam Omar Hazim is the Imam of the Islamic Center of Topeka. He is the Islamic advisor to the Kansas Dept. of Corrections, and has served in this position since 1990. Hazim accepted Islam in 1962 under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He served as a minister under Elijah Muhammad's son Minister Nathaniel Muhammad. Afterward he served directly for Elijah Muhammad as a minister. He has been a student of Imam W. Deen Mohammed since 1975. Imam Hazim is a builder by trade, and has helped to establish many mosques and Islamic Centers in the Kansas City, and Topeka, area over the past 47 years. He is also one of the founders of the Islamic Center of Topeka. He is a member of The Midland Islamic Council. He is a member of the Islamic Society of North America and a member of the American Society of Muslims. He was the first Muslim to give the invocation to the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate on March 9, 1995. Hazim served on the board of directors for Interfaith of Topeka Inc. for seven years. He has also been associated with Interfaith for more than 20 years. Hazim wrote an article that appeared in the Muslim Journal, which is an international publication on Jan. 20, 1995, entitled, Contributions of Islam to a Pluralistic Socity. Over the years, he has written many articles for the Topeka Capital-Journal. His articles focused on Islam and current issues affecting the world. To increase understanding and awareness, Hazim has addressed issues on death, sickness, suffering, social justice, the status of women in Islam, Jihad, human and civil rights, and the Islamic view on life after death, at Stormont-Vail Hospital, The Menninger Foundation, St. Francis Hospital, Washburn University, various churches, schools, civic clubs, etc., in Topeka since 1975. Imam Hazim was married to Aliya Hazim from August 9th 1963 to September 13th 2010 the day she returned to Allah. May Allah accept her in His everlasting Paradise? They have eight children who all graduated from Topeka West High School and went on to college. Hazim has been a Topeka resident since 1975. Omar and Aliya were recognized as Ambassadors for peace in December 2003 by the Inter religious and International Federation for World Peace. Imam Hazim is also the author of the book "Islam in The Heartland of America" - www.omarhazim.net

Dr. Sylvie Heyman is a registered nurse who graduated from Bellevue School of Nursing. She also holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Marymount Manhattan College and a master's degree in Professional Studies focusing on Health Care Administration from Long Island University. She specialized in obstetrics before leading the open heart surgery unit at the renowned St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY.  After earning her Doctor of Chiropractic and a degree in Acupuncture, Dr. Heyman fused these specialties and ran her private practice for 25 years. She also spent 12 years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Chiropractic College and delivered a commencement speech during this time. In her 70s, Dr. Heyman decided to pursue her passion for writing and penned two books: Make it a HABIT! Creating Health and Happiness for your Body, Mind, and Spirit and Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant's Search for Identity. In this episode… Imagine having to uproot your life and move to an entirely different place where you aren't familiar with the language, people, or culture. Now, imagine going through this experience while also dealing with the challenges of being a teenager. This was the reality for Dr. Sylvie Heyman, the author of Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant's Search for Identity.  Join Allan Rolnick in this episode of The Tax Resolution Ninja Show as he interviews Dr. Sylvie Heyman about her book, Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant's Search for Identity. Tune in as Dr. Heyman talks about her family's journey to the U.S. when she was just 14 years old, the struggles they faced in adapting to life in a new country, the importance of understanding the immigrant experience, and why she felt encouraged to tell her story.

Councilman Joe Borelli, Minority Whip of the New York City Council and a contributor to The Hill Dr. David Samadi, Director of Men's Health and Urologic Oncology at St. Francis Hospital in Long Island and a Medical Contributor to NewsmaxTVSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Andrew Franco, an Emergency Medicine Physician at St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center, explains how clinical work in his hospital's Emergency Department was effected by COVID-19. He also discusses his interactions with patients, and how other departments and the hospital overall has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.mcsquaredhealth.com/blog/dr-andrew-franco-covid-19s-impact-on-emergency-departments

Dr. David Samadi joins the program to talk about Covid-19, hydroxychloroquine and what we should learn from this pandemic.

We talk with Dr. David Somadi, Director of Men's Health at St. Francis Hospital in New York, about the medical perspective of the coronavirus pandemic.

We talk with Dr. David Somadi, Director of Men's Health at St. Francis Hospital in New York, about the medical perspective of the coronavirus pandemic.

We talk with Dr. David Somadi, Director of Men's Health at St. Francis Hospital in New York, about the medical perspective of the coronavirus pandemic.

9 AM Hour 5-20-20 Dr. David Samadi, Director of Men's Health and Urologic Oncology at St. Francis Hospital in Long IslandSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in several states came together last weekend to protest against stay-at-home orders. Their actions followed President Trump tweets of support to "liberate" their states and start reopening the economy. Dr. David Grew makes the case that resuming "normal" business activity in the absence of testing and credible messaging will do more economic harm than good. Also this hour: What would President Selina Meyer do in a pandemic? How about Logan Roy? We talk to Frank Rich, the Executive Producer of HBO's VEEP and Succession. Could even they do a better job? Lastly, we talk trash with an essential worker. GUESTS: Dr. David Grew is a radiation oncologist, co-chair of the Cancer Committee at St. Francis Hospital, and a public health messenger. You can find him on Instagram @davidgrew. Frank Rich is Writer-at-Large for New York magazine and Executive Producer for the HBO series, VEEP and Succession. (@frankrichny) Mike Paine is the president of Paine's Incorporated. Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, your hosts Steve Lowry and Yvonne Godfrey interview Lloyd Bell of the Bell Law Firm (https://www.belllawfirm.com/)     Remember to rate and review GTP in iTunes: Click Here To Rate and Review     Case Details:   Medical malpractice attorney Lloyd Bell of Bell Law Firm explains how he led two weeks of trial and obtained a record-breaking jury verdict for a woman who suffered severe complications following neck surgery. Due to the negligence of the hospital's ICU doctor in responding to the patient's restricted airway, she entered into a three-week-long coma and awoke blind and brain-damaged due to a lack of oxygen.   Click Here to Read/Download the Complete Trial Documents     Guest Bio:       With more than 25 years of legal experience, Lloyd Bell has built a sterling courtroom record and recovered millions of dollars for medical malpractice victims. A veteran of the U.S. Army JAG Corps, Bell founded his own law firm in 1999 and is consistently recognized as one of the top attorneys in his field. In 2018, Bell Law Firm was recognized as Personal Injury Litigation Team of the Year by Daily Report, the leading source of legal news in Atlanta. Lloyd Bell has been included in Atlanta Magazine's prestigious Super Lawyers list every year since 2005, and more recently the Super Lawyers “Top 100 Lawyers in Georgia” list in 2018. Bell has also been named as one of the few personal injury lawyers in Georgia on the prestigious list of “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend Magazine, an honor he has received every year since 2015.   His firm differentiates itself with deep legal expertise, a mastery of technology in the courtroom, and compelling storytelling. Over the past five years, Bell won more seven- and eight-figure verdicts for his clients in medical malpractice cases than any other attorney in the state of Georgia, including a $15 million verdict against a large Atlanta hospital group in 2016 and a record-breaking $26 million verdict against a Columbus hospital in 2017. Bell is a member of the Melvin M. Belli Society, a group of distinguished trial lawyers dedicated to the principles of education. Bell is also board certified by the American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys in the field of medical malpractice.   Show Sponsors     Legal Technology Services - LTSatlanta.com     Forge Consulting - ForgeConsulting.com     Harris, Lowry, and Manton - hlmlawfirm.com     Free Resources:   Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 1 Stages Of A Jury Trial - Part 2

"How I Do It: Infiltration Between Popliteal Artery and Capsule of Knee (iPACK)" by Sanjay K. Sinha, MBBS, director of regional anesthesia at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT. From ASRA News, February 2019, pp. 20-22. See original article at www.asra.com/asra-news for figures and references. This material is copyrighted.

Looking for some direction or clarity? Visit Tinaconroy.com use the tab "Find Your Voice" for a private Intuitive Reading at a special rate. Join my FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Theintuitivewomangroup/ Habits are the one thing that completely intrigues me. I am always pondering how I have the habits I do, and how to create new and healthier ones. Not to mention how to get rid of the ones that are not serving me. I loved diving into this conversation with Author Sylvie Heyman about her new book: Make it a Habit! I have personally found the book to be extremely helpful for me and I have created habits that continue to nurture my body, mind and spirit. We uncover some myths about the "21day" theory and the psychology of habits. Dr. Sylvie Heyman is a health and wellness expert with an extensive background in traditional and non-traditional healthcare practices. While Dr. Heyman focuses on weight management and lifestyle changes, she has expanded her area of expertise to habits that affect the body, mind, and spirit. A Registered Nurse whose first specialization was Obstetrics, she went on to head the Open Heart Surgery Unit at the prestigious St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, NY. She then earned degrees as a Doctor of Chiropractic and in Acupuncture and served 12 years as a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Chiropractic College. Dr. Heyman is certified as a Feng Shui Consultant, a Nutrition and Wellness Consultant (AFPA) a Senior Fitness Specialist (NASM) and a Silver Sneakers Instructor. In addition, she has incorporated health coaching in all her careers. Dr. Heyman lives in New York City with her husband and their two little furry babies.

End of Life issues and Indiana's new POST law - guests include Dr. Susan Hickman with the IU School of Nursing, Dr. Jerry Walthall with St. Francis Hospital, and State Representative Dr. Tim Brown.

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD This program will address the increasing prevalence of overweight, obese and type 2 diabetes conditions in our patient population. Physicians and healthcare professionals are confronted with multiple treatment and management challenges for type 2 diabetes. Treatment goals and care-delivery systems often present barriers to patients and clinician in achieving recommended therapeutic targets. These barriers will be identified along with suggested resources to assist in addressing these obstacles. Presenting this Prova Education Activity is Dr. Brian McDonough, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at St. Francis Hospital. This is Part 2 of a lecture in three parts. Part 1 >> Part 3 >> To view the complete video recording of this and other Prova Education Activities, visit http://www.provaeducation.com

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD This program will address the increasing prevalence of overweight, obese and type 2 diabetes conditions in our patient population. Physicians and healthcare professionals are confronted with multiple treatment and management challenges for type 2 diabetes. Treatment goals and care-delivery systems often present barriers to patients and clinician in achieving recommended therapeutic targets. These barriers will be identified along with suggested resources to assist in addressing these obstacles. Presenting this Prova Education Activity is Dr. Brian McDonough, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at St. Francis Hospital. This is Part 3 of a lecture in three parts. Part 1 >> Part 2 >> To view the complete video recording of this and other Prova Education Activities, visit http://www.provaeducation.com

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD This program will address the increasing prevalence of overweight, obese and type 2 diabetes conditions in our patient population. Physicians and healthcare professionals are confronted with multiple treatment and management challenges for type 2 diabetes. Treatment goals and care-delivery systems often present barriers to patients and clinician in achieving recommended therapeutic targets. These barriers will be identified along with suggested resources to assist in addressing these obstacles. Presenting this Prova Education Activity is Dr. Brian McDonough, Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at St. Francis Hospital. This is Part 1 of a lecture in three parts. Part 2 >> Part 3 >> To view the complete video recording of this and other Prova Education Activities, visit http://www.provaeducation.com