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What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Dr. Khris Ramdeen’s background in internal medicine
- The goals of the podcast
- What a private medical concierge service is and why Dr. Ramdeen chose to start one
Dr. Khris Ramdeen is an extremely accomplished medical doctor with a unique and diverse background. He’s an internal medicine physician who did his residency in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He’s worked in numerous hospitals, acute rehab centers and nursing homes and even spent some time as an assistant clinical professor at the University of North Dakota. In addition to all of these accolades, Dr. Ramdeen is also a National Academy of Sports Medicine certified personal trainer.
Teaching, Dr. Ramdeen says, has been the most enjoyable aspect of his career and that’s what inspired him to start this podcast, Apple A Day Doc Talk.
“The goal of this podcast really is to integrate the world of medicine with the world of fitness in a way that promotes a healthy lifestyle through three pillars: nutrition, physical activity and primary care with your physician,” he says.
Listen to the introductory episode of Apple A Day Doc Talk with host Dr. Khris Ramdeen to hear more about how through the series he will help listeners better understand how fitness and medicine are intertwined. You’ll also be able to learn about his private medical concierge service! If you like what you hear, be sure to share it with a friend or colleague! In future episodes, Dr. Ramdeen sits down with experts to discuss the effects and safety concerns that come along with activities like taking supplements or having cosmetic surgery. And of course, they will also discuss how to treat and prevent disease.
Apple a Day Doc Talk is a Founding Media podcast created in partnership with Dr. Khris Ramdeen.
Transcript:
this is a founding media podcast if Hey everyone I’m Dr Ramdeen and I’m an internal medicine physician I’m also a National Academy of sports medicine certified personal trainer I’ve been really interested in fitness and nutrition for about ten years now and I have a pretty diverse background I’ve worked as a hospitalist which is taking care of sick patients in the hospital and also in the long term acute care setting which is hot like a hospital type setting where patients go if they’re not quite do enough to remain in the hospital but not quite sick enough to go home I’ve worked in acute rehab settings and I’ve been held medical directorships in the nursing home in hospice I did my residency training in Ann Arbor Michigan I also did my chief residency there and then I went to North Dakota to practice hospitalist medicine and was an assistant clinical professor at the university of North Dakota where I taught a lot of medical students in the hospital the teaching that I’ve done has been the most enjoyable aspect of my career in this podcast channels really just a natural continuation of that passion in the goal of this podcast released into great the world of medicine with the world of fitness in a way that promotes a healthy lifestyle through three pillars nutrition physical activity in primary care with your position I look forward to helping you understand the links between fitness and medicine and after studying both of these areas I believe that it is essential to combine the two in the podcast is also really an extension of my private concierge practice the idea for which was spotted in part by me working in the transplant hospital where I saw a lot of twenty year olds and sixty year old young patients in yes sixty is young we see a lot of ninety year olds in a hundred year old but these patients there again twenties to sixties coming in with liver failure or kidney failure and they’re ending up on the transplant list in some of these patients are taking supplements that are really popular supplements that they’re purchasing it very popular places in facilities but they’re not being monitored by the physician so why is this happening well the typical outpatient medical practice setting is overwhelmed with patients who have active issues or acute issues like for example if you look around your doctor’s office look at who’s in that office you’ll see patients there again with active issues like maybe they just had a heart attack or maybe they’re following with their doctor because they just had a stroke or maybe you see somebody in there who’s having a flare of their asthma and they’re wheezing or having difficulty breathing or someone’s there to maybe talk about the management of their diabetes et cetera it’s a rare you go into your family doctor’s office or internal medicine docs office and see it filled with majority of patients their eager to discuss their preventative care with their physician and so as a result of that scenario there’s a lack of basic education with regards to the preventative care and also frankly a lack of blood test monitoring to assess organ function like liver function kidney function and this is a functional so busy schedules in this digital age we live in patients are really busy and the docks are really busy because these waiting rooms again filled with patients who have very cute issues they’re sick sick patients and secondly a common anecdote that I hear a lot in ations that approach me wanting to you know have interest in my practice our tell me tell me the same story over and over again they they tell me that they’ve asked her doctor about advice on how to cut fat how to build muscle or protein shake safe what type of supplements do I need and they feel like they’re getting brushed off when they get their answer from the doctor and again I believe that this is a factor of those really busy waiting rooms that I mentioned N. it’s just that the doctors are trying to work within the time constraints the hours of that day trying to take care adequately of all those really sick patients in that waiting room and on top of that the amount of paperwork that doctors are required to do in that setting is ridiculous and a topic for another day so I think doctors are doing their best to work within the time constraints of our current healthcare system but I started my concierge practice because I didn’t want to work within those constraints anymore I wanted to spend more time with my patients by diving into their nutritional habits and diving into the types in the frequency of their physical activity in determining how to optimize their specific blood test results to complement or even accentuate their efforts towards attaining their unique fitness goals in order to deeply dive into lifestyle and give my patients the time that I felt they needed a realistic concierge medicine is really the only way to do this effectively concierge medicine is a practice model is a it’s a model where the patient panel smaller and the doctor is taking care of less patience but because of that low patient volume more time attention can be paid to those patients whenever it’s necessary and also the nice thing about concierge medicine is that my patients reach out to me directly so they avoid the rigmarole of having to call the doctor’s office and be placed on hold talk to a secretary maybe told they’ll get a call back later and maybe they were doing something else and missed the call there’s none of that and again under this model more time can be spent on preventative care verses after the fact care so for example I can I spend the majority of my time talking about issues in assessing for things that can lead to a stroke or issues that can lead to a heart attack versus spending the majority of my time managing those issues after they’ve already occurred so my goals in doing this podcast is to help you understand the effects in the safety concerns of taking supplements in the rationale in the safety issues related to nutrition and of course discussing how to prevent and treat diseases I’ll be interviewing guests to help me explain these issues T. while first and foremost keeping your safety in mind if I have done nothing else throughout this podcast but make you aware of how to stay safe while engaging in nutrition fitness or primary care strategies it’ll be worth it N. I wanna say there’s so many ways to engage in the strategies effectively you know there’s so many different types of great workout regimens so many good ways to attack your nutrition strategies but there also so many ways that you can get hurt and my goal is to limit the latter this channel is unique because it’s rare for there to be a physician to present issues like this online and talk about these issues and I want to change that if you’re interested in becoming a member of my practice feel free to go to Randy M. D. dot com also if you had there you can check out my YouTube channel that I launched for you to be able to learn about topics in medicine and fitness and if you’re on Instagram or Facebook you can follow me there for updates as well and by the way feel free to message me on any of these platforms comment on the videos or posts that I’m putting up there and even if there is a topic that I’m not addressing please feel free to ask questions and I’ll always do my best to answer them finally I’d like to thank founding media and the long center for hosting here during south by southwest and thanks so much for tuning into this new podcast see guys next time
