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COVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 9: Scott Safford, PhD Licensed PsychologistToday I got the chance to catch up with a former colleague and friend Scott Safford. Scott is a licensed psychologist who works as a behavioral health consultant in Central Oregon. He works in primary care meaning that he is part of a health care team that helps manage the whole patient's wellbeing. This is a perspective that I have been anxiously waiting for in these interviews. As a mental health expert with a wealth of experience, but also a brilliant scientific thinker, I really appreciated Scott's perspective.
Our conversation went longer than anticipated, but we also...2020-06-0544 minCOVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpsiode 8: Diklah Orevi, PA-CWelcome back to another episode! This time I had the pleasure of speaking with my friend Diklah a physician assistant in the emergency department of my home town in Central Oregon. Diklah has been a practicing PA in Oregon for a number of years and specializes in emergency medicine. This episode provided a ton of amazing perspective for me because it was the first chance I've had to see what it was like in the last place that I called home before moving abroad. In addition, Diklah's very considerate and thoughtful mindset helped provide some unique insights and highlight s...2020-05-3135 minCOVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 7: Charles IppolitiIn this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with someone I have known almost my entire life. Charlie is now retired but is a former systems analysis of the major medical system in Corvallis, Oregon who contracted COVID-19 in late February and has been experienced the medical system's response from a patient perspective. In addition to getting caught up on after a long time, I had a great time hearing his perspective as someone who is no longer actively working who has spent time in two of the global hotspots; Italy and the United States.
We h...2020-05-3128 minCOVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 6: Tammy AmanIn this episode, I get the chance to talk with one of my oldest and dearest friends Tammy Aman. Tammy is an operations manager from Corvallis, Oregon who runs the administrative aspects of the largest health care provider in the city's cardiopulmonary clinics. She has been working in medicine for nearly 15 years as an administrator at various levels.
In this episode, we get into the financial aspects of operating medicine during COVID-19, discuss the logistics of maintaining medical systems, and how her community has responded to these unusual times. Tammy provides a unique, humored, and leveled perspective o...2020-05-2038 minCOVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 5: Charles D. Radis, DOI'm speaking with Chuck Radis today who is a Rheumatology professor and a practicing physician with 35 years worth of experience. Chuck comes to us from Peaks Island, a small island off the coast of Maine just outside of Portland. Chuck has been involved in systems changes and has been observing how the pandemic unfolds from a unique point of view; living on an island with only 1,000 people that relies heavily on summer tourism on the horizon, while still being connected to the largest city in his home state.
In this episode, we talk about h...2020-05-1832 minCOVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 4: Kaitlyn Hanes, PA-CKaitlyn Hanes joins me in this podcast a physician assistant practicing family medicine, often called primary care, in Roseburg, Oregon. Kaitlyn grew up in Roseburg and returned to her rural community after attended school in California and works with Evergreen Family Practice. Being in primary care she helps manage the whole patient care system from coordinating mental health and medications to acute trauma and existing conditions such as diabetes.
Kaitlyn shares a unique perspective being in an overall smaller medical system than many of the others interviewed so far. She paints a picture of the need for...2020-05-1522 min
COVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 3 - Chantelle Paulson, BSN, RN, CMSRNIn this episode, I speak with Chantelle Paulson who is a practicing nurse while also pursuing her Doctorate of Nursing at Gonzaga University. She is coming to us from Tacoma, Washington. Chantelle is a charge nurse for the medsurg (medical-surgical) floor. We discuss the long term effects of COVID-19 and some of the sociopolitical observations, struggles, and outcomes relating to how the US has handled and adapted to the COVID-19 crisis.
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The views expressed in this episode are solely individual and those interviewed are not speaking as representatives of their mentioned i...2020-05-1435 min
COVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 2 - Peter Leavitt, MDThis episode comes to us from Park City, Utah and urgent care physician Peter Leavitt. He is a board-certified MD who has been practicing in multiple regions across the US over his career including the North East, Pacific Northwest, and now in Utah. He has practiced in primary care and urgent care for most of his career.
Peter shares with us the perspective of what it is like working in an international vacation destination and what working in a designated COVID-19 treatment facility has been like and how it has changed over the last few months.
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COVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastEpisode 1 - Adam Sherman, PA-C & Andrea Soto, MSWI wanted to know what COVID-19 really looks like in the United States. There is so much misinformation and very little overall coverage of much of the geographic United States represented. So I reached out to some of my amazing friends and former colleagues from around the US to see if they could shed some light on many of the burning questions I had. This first episode comes to us from the small city of Eugene, Oregon. We have an emergency department physician assistant Adam Sherman and health social worker Andrea Soto.
This episode provides some really uni...2020-05-1441 minCOVID-19 A Perspectives PodcastCOVID-19
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