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Welcome, friends.
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This is DR’s Krishna and Veer Vedala.
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And we are the Vedala Bros.
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So in this podcast, we'll be discussing
important medical topics
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that affect your community.
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We'll be looking into medical research
Health and wellness tips
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and also available health
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care resources brought to you
by the Norman Regional Health System.
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That's right.
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And in each episode, we'll also be joined
by medical professionals,
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local community leaders
and even some of our friendly neighbors
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as we talk through various issues
that are affecting our community.
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So if you want to lead healthy lives
or learn about the new healthy trends,
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we want this podcast to be your
go to resource.
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Today, Norman Regional stands
as one of the premier health
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institutions in Oklahoma.
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But as we said
before, the success of an organization
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is not based on
just its products and services,
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but the collective passion, dedication
and vision of its leaders.
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And we have been lucky enough to sit
with one such leaders of our Norman region
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Health care system. Mr. Richie split.
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Thank you for joining us for part
two of our special episode, Conversations
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with our CEO.
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one of the things that I've always been
interested in is the field of oncology.
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And at one point, even myself, I thought
about, you know, going to further training
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and, and becoming an oncologist, but,
you know, family, balance, wife,
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you know there were some restrictions,
but what brought upon
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the partnership between Norman Regional
and OU Stevenson Cancer Center.
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we had Dr.
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Jones here a couple of weeks ago
and she explained it, but I just wanted
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to kind of get your perspective
on what brought that partnership together.
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Dr. Jones
and all of our partners are terrific.
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And for us
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in this transformational strategic plan
that we call Inspire health,
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we knew we were going to build
a new cancer center.
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Our new campus was going to include
a cancer center, and in doing so,
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we could continue our long
and rich tradition
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of great community cancer care.
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I mean, Dr.
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Jones and her, her colleagues
are outstanding, our healers, outstanding.
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They do a wonderful job
and at certain levels of care we have to
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refer those patients out for trials
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treatments and opportunities.
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So we began to talk about and think about
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how could we just level up in cancer care.
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And so we we invited the conversation
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for a few potential partners and providers
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and OU Stephenson Cancer Center
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just resonated and they
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they give us the opportunity,
that partnership with O.U.
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Health, gives us the opportunity to provide
clinical trials and other research
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opportunities for patients
through a National Cancer Institute
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Designated cancer
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Center, NCI Designated Cancer Center,
second location
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on the campus of Norman Regional
right here in Oklahoma.
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That's rarefied air for cancer treatment.
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And we're just we're
pleased to be partners with them
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to bring that higher level of care,
to open up that to our providers, Dr.
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Jones and the rest, to really make
a difference for our patients
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and do it in the convenience
of of our team, our state, our community.
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Exactly.
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And it's going to be a wonderful facility
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with even better people inside.
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Thats Beautiful.
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so another thing that Krishna
and I are both interested in sir is, is
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addressing,
you know, the epidemic of obesity
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and trying to help patients
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and one of the biggest resources
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and that we're grateful for in the Norman
Regional facility is the Journey Clinic.
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And I think they do an excellent job
and we are going to have
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somebody from there come
and be a guest on the podcast too.
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But I was just curious of how that, that,
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that system started and, and how,
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how did we get all the resources
to set that up for our patients in Norman?
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So you used the word visionary before,
and that was the result
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of recruiting in physicians
who have a vision.
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Yeah, and we like to do that.
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We think of ourselves
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And if someone's got a dream,
they've got a vision, then we want to see
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how we can open up the opportunity
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And so Dr.
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and others launched that program years ago
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before I arrived at Norman Regional,
and she had a great vision.
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And so we just needed to apply our
resources, make way for that opportunity.
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And she has done and her partners as well
have done a remarkable job in
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being successful and driving high quality
outcomes and and really making
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a significant difference in the lives
of those patients that they serve.
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So all of that credits got to go to Dr.
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Nelson and others that are living that
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And it really, it's remarkable.
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It's when you can transform a life
like that through the surgeries
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or other interventions
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It is life
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changing, truly life
changing and life saving for some of them.
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So I'm really proud of of that service
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It's it's important
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work. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
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I went and visited
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And I'm glad we have such
a dedicated entire clinic
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to the obesity epidemic
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such a focused clinic
only dealing towards obesity and not just,
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you know, in terms of surgery,
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in terms of nutrition,
in terms of the metabolic aspect of it.
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And so bringing that together
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So, yeah.
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And and, you know,
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And, you know, obesity is heavily
linked with sleep apnea and,
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and coming here to Norman Regional
and finding how simple
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it was to get people screened
and treated with Ms.
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Stinnett in the sleep
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I just that just goes to say
how streamlined Norman is.
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and the, and the,
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and with Tiger Connect, which I coming
from O.U. didn't have that option
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and getting, getting to just communicate
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with my colleagues and specialists, right?
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it was, it's
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amazing, right?
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It makes our job a lot easier.
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It makes us feel more comfortable
knowing that
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we have people who we can lean on to
for advice and support.
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And that's the amazing part.
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And I think that's just what I always like
calling.
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It's the Norman Regional way, right?
So that's right.
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Know we strive for that every day
for the exactly
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what you're describing
you know from physician to physician.
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We talk about that department across
department throughout the organization.
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I go to the, you know, I address
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I get the opportunity
to address our new healers in orientation.
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Every so often, we rotate through.
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But when it's my time,
I always provide them my mobile number.
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So they can give me a call
when they get stuck.
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Because that's important.
They're they're going to have questions.
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And I don't have all the answers,
but I know people who do.
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But it's important. They feel comfortable.
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They realize there's
there's more to their work than
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just punching a clock
and doing what they're asked to do.
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It's about connecting with people at work.
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It's about really connecting
to our mission, that purpose.
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And if and when we do that,
then we're we get better results.
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And so that's our
our goal is bring everybody together, feel
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like a work family,
treat each other with respect and dignity.
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And and we can do more together
than we can apart.
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So I'm glad to hear that it's working for
you guys as well.
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That was just so fantastically.
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put when you said
we could do more together than apart.
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that's just an amazing quote that
and I think that is probably
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the one of the
all the things that I'll take
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from this podcast that will probably be
one of the more I remember, memorable ones.
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and this is, this is why we call him
our Richie because he is...
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Please call me Richie.
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Sir, you're the most down to earth leader.
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I'm
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So I'm so glad to be working
under your leadership.
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Oh that's very kind. We do it together
side by side. Side by side.
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Walk us through some of your, like,
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favorite opportunities or experiences
you've had as CEO.
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What were those big moments?
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Well, the
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big moments are definitely when we have
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critical periods in
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in our career, in our lives,
and in our in the sacred work that we do.
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How how can one
not think about the pandemic?
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Yeah, And we've had multiple opportunities
where we've come together
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as as a health system and rallied around
one challenge or another.
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And there's no better example
than the pandemic.
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I'm so proud of our healers in the work
they did.
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All we did was say yes. Yes,
we'll start a new infusion clinic.
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Yes, we'll take that patient.
Yes, we'll care for your loved one.
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We wanted to be
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here.
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We wanted to be available,
readily accessible for our community.
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And we did that extremely well.
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And I know it happened
all across the state,
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all across the country,
but I saw it on a daily basis
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with our healers,
and I could not be more proud.
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So, you know, it's it's those moments.
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It's truly when you
when you see the outcomes that we achieve
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as a health system, one patient at a time.
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Knee to knee, when you said across them
knee to knee,
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those,yeah,
those helping hands and caring hearts
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are second to none at Norman Regional
so it's those big moments.
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The pandemic really brought out the best
in our organization
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and now, you know, following
sort of post pandemic,
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we are still adjusting
and it goes back to that potential.
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When we make the right informed decisions,
then we can unleash that potential.
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And that's what I strive to do.
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And we all strive to do it each
and every day, make it more accessible,
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more effective, and just the right thing
to do for our patients.
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Just like we did through the pandemic.
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One of the questions that I wanted to ask
you is, is being a leader
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is not an easy job, obviously,
but one of the difficult aspects that
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that I've kind of come to realize is
is building a consensus.
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Right?
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It's it's one thing to be the
the CEO or the president,
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but it's another thing to have a vision
and then to build a consensus around.
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You kind of touched about this
briefly earlier today,
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but what what
what I was wondering was was,
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how difficult was it
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trying to build that consensus around the,
the Inspire Health movement?
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I can't say it was easy.
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It was it was arduous.
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The task to get to that end point,
to have something that we could walk away
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with and agree
about or agree to in inspire health,
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that wasn't easy.
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I'm struggling to to explain this clearly.
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But It really is
because we were so transparent.
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We communicated
I mentioned the healer forums
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that our healers truly were the coauthors
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It was important to me.
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It was important to our organization
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that if we were going to succeed,
we need everybody on board.
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We need everybody pulling on the same
rope, same time, same direction.
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And that happened.
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And it's not over yet.
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It's bricks and mortar.
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The rest is about implementation.
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We get into our new spaces.
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Then we need to do things differently
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and really be lean in
and be forward thinking.
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So it it's about transparency.
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It's communication.
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It it can be intimidating.
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But if you stand there
and you're willing to field the questions,
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you're willing to hear the emotions
that are tied to change and
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and difficult decisions,
then I think we come out of that stronger.
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And that's what we did
with the inception of Inspire Health.
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That's what we continue to do.
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And I believe it serves all of us well.
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When we have the ability
to communicate, ask questions
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and be a be a part of something
bigger than ourselves.
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And that's all we ask of our healers is
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think of our patients first
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That's our mission. That's our vision.
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And gosh, we'll be very, very successful.
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Again, it's about that potential.
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We can unleash that potential.
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And I'm committed to that transparency
and committed to communication.
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And together
we're stronger that way.
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Exactly.
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Well, sir,
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I think my next questions, like
we talked about the big moments, Right?
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And obviously you've probably experienced
challenges, too.
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And so after you became CEO,
was there anything in particular
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you were nervous about or a particular
challenge that stood out to you?
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And can you talk about
how you overcame it?
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Yes, definitely challenges
and concerns for me.
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And really it was about
I I'd been in the organization
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for three years or so
and I felt as though I'd built trust.
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And when you have trust,
you are more likely to succeed
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because people do want to follow you.
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You have people who want to lead
you, people who want to follow.
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They need to know where is true north.
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And so that was building trust
and then instilling hope
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that way that we could overcome this,
you know, a
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loss of the previous CEO
and that I was capable with our
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our team to just pick up the mantle
and move forward.
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One thing that was a high priority
was that strategic plan.
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We needed a living,
breathing, dynamic strategic plan
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that was going to bring everybody
around that true north.
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Where we going as an organization?
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What's my role in helping us get there?
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So Inspire Health was born.
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It started as the BHAG and became
inspire health.
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BHAG, Inspire Health.
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You see any like potential challenges
in the future.
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These challenges
never go away in health care, obviously.
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So yes, there are plenty.
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And, you know, I'm really concerned
about the supply chain piece.
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It still impacts us every day.
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We need to overcome that.
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And the the legislative part of health
care policy
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always influences us
and in the work that we do.
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So we must pay attention to that.
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It is the ongoing evolution
of health care.
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You know,
I believe there will always be a need
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for inpatient care, truly sick patients
who need to be in the hospital.
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How do we best serve our patients,
our customers in an outpatient setting?
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How do we preemptively prevent
an inpatient stay?
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How can we promote health and wellness
to keep them out of that
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acute care setting, manage
chronic diseases,
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medications are are becoming more
and more powerful, as you all know.
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And we haven't even talked
about artificial intelligence
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and what role does it have
in health care today. Oh wow.
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So there are those are
there are a lot of things
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in the future that that give me pause
that we need to be prepared for.
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And we're doing our best. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like,
you know, some we we go to our clinic,
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we see our patients and then we we do
the best we can to take care of them,
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medically. but the world of medicine
is so vast, is so many moving parts. It just changes.
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There's so much change.
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Even when we were in medical school
and now coming out,
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there's so much
that's changed in the last ten years.
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It's just is incredible. Yeah.
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And also my mind boggling. At the same
time.
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It's that continuous learning
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because there's always something
new around the corner again.
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Yeah.
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And you mentioned artificial intelligence
and that's, that's something that's.
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So that's. Brilliant.
one of the things really always been
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I wouldn't say
maybe I the best way to put it as proud
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you know to be a physician
which is "oh I can never be replaced."
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But now even that itself is becoming more
and more of a concern to me
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because there could be a chance
where an artificial, you know, an A.I.
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could basically just base everything off
an algorithm and say you meet this
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criteria, therefore this is the medication
that that you should be prescribed.
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And that's that thought.
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The thought of that is just frightening.
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Well, neither of you could be replaced
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and maybe health care can be augmented
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by an A.I. tool as a backstop
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or, you know, supporting cast,
if you will.
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So we explore those opportunities,
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whether it's, you know, in radiology,
we can
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A.I. can scan a film and image very quickly
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and provide feedback from the expert
who's also reviewing that film.
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So it's a nice backstop to have.
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And I wouldn't want to rely on A.I.
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at all for health care.
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Right.
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Principally. But as a helper.
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Maybe so, yeah.
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I think there's some potential in primary
care to help with, decrease admin
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workload for physicians, whether it's,
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drafting patient education
or because right now
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we use dictation software, you know,
that's common, that was up and coming and.
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And we do have reminder systems
for screening and other prevention
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that that do pop up in the EMR. Right?
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So I think it could be.
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I think tools like that
are what allows you to
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to get back to the basics
of medicine. Of medicine, right.
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How you connect with your patients
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and that knee to knee conversation
that I mentioned before.
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That's how we want to use that tool
so that you can better understand
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your patient needs
and then chart that path forward.
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Right, Right.
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And there's like talks about integrating
it into EMRs, if I'm not mistaken.
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There is. Yes,
it's out there. Oh it's out there already.
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Oh I didn't know that. Wow. Well, sir,
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you know, primary care providers and,
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you know, we're part of the the wheel
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and and the moving machine
that is our health care system.
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How how can we and other primary
care doctors out there
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or any physicians or even students right.
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how can we get involved
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and try to support,
you know, our future vision of Norman?
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whether it's committees or leadership
roles or anything you can think of.
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I think it's meeting your patients
where they are.
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Continue to do that.
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You both do an excellent job
and in doing that, stay current with,
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you know, the, the articles
and the research and all of those things.
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But help,
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really connecting those patients,
help them in their journey to wellness,
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be proactive and look down the road,
not just at the one incident.
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And you guys are excellent at doing that
and our organization is getting better
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and better across the board in that way so
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that preemptive, proactive treatment,
if you will,
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is going to be vitally important
if we're truly changing the health
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outcomes in our community.
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So continue doing that,
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be engaged on those in those
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committees and, and that way
you learn again what your role,
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how it influences another person's role
or the health system overall.
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Stay engaged.
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It's all about being engaged
and communicate.
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Keep doing these podcasts to help others
learn from this.
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Yeah, which leads me to a question.
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I have a question for you two.
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Okay, that's great.
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So what's it like to be working with
your brother in the same health system?
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What's, how's that experience?
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You take that first?
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Well, we probably have varying opinions.
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I'm just kidding.
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Since you were the first
in the health system.
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Anyway.
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I knew coming out of residency
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that if there's a place I wanted to work
at and I always wanted to come back home
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and I always knew Norman
Regional was the place where I would do
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well, where I would love to have
that family work balance
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and at the same time
will allow me to grow.
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and so, you know, when I interviewed,
Norman Regional
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was one of the first places
that I even looked at,
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and, and so, and then when I got in here,
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coming out of
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residency right into your first
job, can be nerve wracking.
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But for me, it's,
it was such an easy transition.
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And I can't emphasize this,
I, I've always been supported,
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not just by the specialists,
but also, by our team and our clinic.
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the shout out to Adrian and Chuti
and Bortier,
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my nurse, Tabitha and Irma
and Jamie and Grace.
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If there's anyone else
I'm forgetting, I'm sorry.
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And also to, Ms. Lynn!
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Oh yeah, and Lynn, Lynn. And, you know,
having other close by mentors like Dr.
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Shrilekha Parikh,
who is just right across the pond, and Dr.
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Sims, who's our who we call our work mom,
because she kind of has to
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sometimes maybe put us in our place.
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But, but Norman's been great to me, and,
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and I knew that when Veer was ready,
that having him would be great.
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Because not only do we in, not only did
we go to medical school together, but,
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you know, we're two different specialties
and and that, I think really helps
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because if I have a question
and specifically when it comes to
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Ob/Gyn or even, you know, Peds care,
I don't see pediatricians,
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or the pediatric population.
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But just in case, I, I always knew that
having my brother to fall
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back is always going
to be, you know, a very good,
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reliable support system.
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And so I was always excited
and I still am excited and I'm always
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grateful to have have him, have him with me.
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So I knew from day one
it was going to be a blast and has been,
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and I, I enjoy it. you know, it
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also kind of gives us a chance
just to kind of hang out together.
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and we kind of miss that.
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And we both love our wives really
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Well, but when you get married,
you know, things change, right?
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Priorities are a little bit different.
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And so, you know,
we could still have our usual conversation
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or chat during lunch or talk about,
you know, what movie we want to go to or
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Veer's a big video gamer.
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And so he talks about video games
and I talk about sports.
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and so but it's been great and I love it.
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I really love having him work with me.
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Yeah. Excellent.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, I mean, I, I
agree with everything and echo what and Dr.
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Vedala I said over there, but, you know,
I honestly,
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after my residency career
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had ended and I went to Kansas to do
my family medicine training
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and, and was coming back,
it was kind of at a crossroads.
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I actually interviewed here,
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right after residency as well.
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Yeah.
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and there was, this place and then,
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it was a place in Tulsa I interviewed at,
and then at O.U.
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for the faculty position
and medical education
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and working with students
has always been a passion of mine.
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And it will continue to be
because I absolutely love teaching
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and I felt like that was a,
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in that time of my career
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as family physicians and residency
we train with OB and we,
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you know, do all of our, in-patient
training and, and I felt like it's,
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you know, at residency or I'm still doing
everything was the peak time
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I could, I could take that opportunity
and, and try my hat at academics.
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And I felt like
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if there's a time to do it, it's now.
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and, absolutely
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loved my journey through, through OAU.
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for the last,
I did that for two years after,
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residency training.
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But that thought of working with Krishna
is always
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there, even as we were growing up, right?
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That was like my parent's dream, right?
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Yeah, that's, that is,
that is the dream. And,
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and obviously we knew
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we were going to
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come serve the community in Oklahoma,
the community that helped raise us and,
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and wanted to give back to the people
that gave us so much growing up, right?
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I mean,
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Edmond and Norman is all we've known.
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we cherish our years in college
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here in Norman. And,
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I was a volunteer at Norman
Regional Hospital while I was in college.
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And, and so it was like coming home
in multiple ways.
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One, it was a system
I was already familiar
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with and people already knew
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because I also worked
in the pathology department with Dr.
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Thompson.
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And them,
and then I get to work with my brother.
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And so I am incredibly grateful
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for this opportunity
and to be able to serve patients and work
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alongside my brother and amazing people
in our clinic, including Dr.
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Sims, Dr. Parikh, Dr.
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Manning, and, and the people
I've got to meet along the way.
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even the newer physicians like Dr.
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Cain and I, I love Dr.
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Cain, you know, and people I met here
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and, and,
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I think, we, we work well together
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in terms of camaraderie and, and,
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working on taking care of our patients.
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because when you come to our clinic, Dr.
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Sims, Krishna and I are all,
you know, in the same goal of
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doing the best we can.
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That's, that warms
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my heart, because that is what we strive
to do as an organization.
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Recruit people in who have a mission like
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the two of you do and are are deeply
devoted to our patients.
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I've seen that in your practices
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and the feedback
that comes back to me from others.
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So you've been well received
and it is a part
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and in line with our commitment.
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The I.C.A.R.E. values.
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What you both described
is all about Integrity, Communication,
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Attitude, achieving Results
and then Engagement.
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That that is,
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that's where we need to be.
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This is a
we talk a lot about being a work family
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and you truly are family
and you're you're spreading
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that throughout the organization as well,
the broader work family.
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So I'm grateful you're both here.
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Well, thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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Thank you. I'm grateful to be here.
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All right, Lastly, sir, before
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we, close out the episode,
we always ask our guests
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if there's one message
take away from this.
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episode that you want to relay
to our, our listeners.
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I think,
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a message might be if you want to connect
with the purpose of health care,
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at Norman Regional,
this is the best place to do it.
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You both are again
living examples of how that can happen.
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I like to believe I get up every day
and try to make that happen as well.
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But Norman Regional, deeply
devoted to our patients, to our community,
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those that we serve and our healers make
a difference every day. And
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we'd love to have
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more great healers
in our organization achieving the outcomes
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that are important to our patients
and to our community so
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come be a part of something great and,
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help us to write the next Inspire Health
strategy, because it's, it's coming up.
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We're there.
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Patient, people.
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Progress,
Progress,
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and potential.
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Yeah, we got it. Yeah that's it.
Thank you again Mr. Splitt. Yeah, thank you.
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We're just so grateful
for you to join us today.
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And from all of us here at Norman
Regional,
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guys, we thank you for joining us
for our Vital Visions podcast.
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And as always, stay classy, my friends.
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And stay out of trouble.