Dr. Barry Baines

And you don't know what the landscape looks like.

And public health provides that view of a wider view of what's just beyond across the street.

How does that play out?

When I was in an active practice, like the morbidity and mortality reports would be very helpful for me to knowing

sort of like well what diseases are going around in my community so that i'm a little bit more aware of it because sometimes they're not the most it's not not everything is just a common cold or an earache um so that there may be you know things for me to that surveillance just lets me to be more aware of those kind of things as it's happening from a real preventive part which is really

the bulk of what primary care physicians, what family physicians do is how do we keep people healthy?

It's, you know, you want to keep them away from all these acute problems.

You talked about seatbelts that, you know, that's a prime one.

We had a show on not too long ago on gun safety and, you know, trigger locks and things and how that has actually

from a death perspective, kills more kids than just about anything else.

So it sort of introduces, and again, this is public health, that a family physician could take that information and translate it into communication with my patients.

And when I'm talking with my patients, it doesn't really doesn't make a difference what their political, you know, who they vote for.

It's, you know, how do we keep, you know, how do we keep them healthy?

And so in physicians offices, and many people might not know this, is that we do rely on public health information.

in order to make better decisions and helping our patients.

And then one other piece I just want to talk about, maybe I'm reading a little bit too much science fiction with dystopian universes and things like that.

But what I'm most afraid of is seeing the dismantling of a structure and information

not only locally, but globally, you know, John, as you pointed out, and my biggest fear is that we're going to have like a descent into the dark ages, you know, I mean, it's a different version, but a version of the dark ages and health, um, because we're going to lose so much and it's, you know, it's much easier to wreck something than it is to build up again.

If you ever did any house stuff, you know, I did kitchen remodeling.

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