MEDICINE: Communication, Managing Stress, and Behavioral Implications of the Pandemic | Todd Forman, MD

COVID-19: Commonsense Conversations on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Recorded April 6, 2020. In this episode, Dr. O’Connell is joined by Dr. Todd Forman to discuss how the coronavirus is impacting private practices and how patients are reacting and responding to the transition to telehealth as well as the situation as a whole. This episodes also talks about philosophies around potential changes to paradigm shifts in our perspectives on globalism, consumerism, and the environment.

Your host is Dr. Ted O’Connell, family physician, educator, and author of numerous textbooks and peer-reviewed articles. He holds academic appointments at UCSF, UC Davis, and Drexel University's medical schools and also founded the Kaiser Permanente Napa-Solano Community Medicine and Global Health Fellowship, the first program in the U.S. to formally combine both community medicine and global health. Follow Ted on Instagram (@tedoconnellmd) and Twitter (@tedoconnell)!

Dr. Forman is a partner at Forman Family Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Forman received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, his medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine, and completed his residency at UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital and then received a master’s degree in medical education from the Keck USC School of Medicine. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Forman is active in medical education as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Keck School of Medicine at USC.Dr. Forman also has a unique musical background. From 1988 to 1996 he played saxophone for the band Sublime before pursuing a career in medicine. In 2005 he started playing music again after a 10-year hiatus. From 2009 to 2011 he joined the original lineup of Sublime with Rome for a world tour and built a home music studio. In 2013, he formed Jelly of the Month club to make music for children and families, playing shows at schools, hospitals, community events, resorts, and Knotts Berry Farm in Southern California, playing with Snoopy and the Peanuts Gang. In 2019, Dr. Forman formed the Moxy Brothers music production team with Adrian Young, the drummer from the band No Doubt. You can follow Todd and his bands on Instagram at @captdrtodd @moxybros @jellyofthemonthclub. As well as the bands website: http://jellyofthemonthclub.com

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