Dr. Barry Baines

And the goal usually is that so you can live a life where you get to do the things that you want to do.

And you feel better.

And that you enjoy.

So that's all I have to say.

Barry, go ahead.

So I guess what I'd like to do is try and make the invisible of public health, make it visible from a physician perspective.

And there's a couple of analogies I could use, but when you're a physician in a clinic or a hospital even,

you're still pretty isolated.

And all you can see is what you could see out your window.

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.