Dr Synonymous: Family Medicine: Learning From the Military

After 7 minutes of technical difficulty/silence, Dr. Synonymous will review a patient blog, a physician blog (AFP Community blog by Kenny Lin) and some interesting medical progress, including the rebuttal to the JUPITER study by Dr.'s Kopes-Kerr and Ebell (family medicine authors and editors) and innovation. He will reflect on his West Point training about Military Leadership and focus on the Nine Principles of War, U S Army. He will discuss how the principles may apply to family medicine for decision support in this time of massive change, especially in support of the PCMH and Direct Primary Care. The importance of being on the Offensive will be emphasized by Dr S. Comments also will include reference to human aspects of patient-physician relationship and socio-technical innovation via social media that helps them in policy, leadership, clinical and human decisions.