Announcer:
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Welcome to the MedEvidence! Monday Minute Radio Show hosted by Kevin Geddings of WSOS S t Augustine Radio and powered by ENCORE Research Group. Each Monday morning, Dr. Michael Koren calls in to bring you the latest medical updates with insightful discussions. Medevidence is where we help you navigate the real truth behind medical research, with both a clinical and research perspective. So sit back, relax and get ready to learn about the truth behind the data in medicine and healthcare. This is MedEvidence!
Kevin Geddings:
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Dr. Michael Koren is joining us live on the studio line. He's a medical doctor, cardiologist, research scientist and we appreciate him taking time out of his busy schedule to be with us each and every day. And, of course, as we talked about earlier this morning, there are always clinical trials that are available for you to consider participating in. They could really impact your life. You could impact so many other lives in a great way and we encourage you to go to EncoreDocs. com and learn how you can participate from right here, in St. John's County, in St. Augustine, right D r. Koren.
Dr. Michael Koren:
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You got it, Kevin, yeah.
Kevin Geddings:
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Good morning.
Dr. Michael Koren:
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Good morning.
Kevin Geddings:
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Did you watch the golf
Kevin Geddings:
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watch Rory finally win?
Dr. Michael Koren:
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I did, I did. There's a lot of drama there, but he was definitely somebody you wanted to root for. At least in our household we did so. It was exciting to see that he finally won the career Grand Slam. So we're all excited for him and you could see, with the emotion that he displayed when he won, how important it was to him.
Kevin Geddings:
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Yeah, absolutely Well, great event. They had great weather. We did too. So this morning we wanted to talk a little bit about ethics and clinical research, right?
Dr. Michael Koren:
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Yeah, yeah, we were just chatting about the fact that I saw the John Lennon-Yoko Ono documentary that was put together by their son, Sean Lennon, called One to One, and I didn't know what it was about when I went to see it, but I'm definitely a John Lennon Beatles fan and I wanted to see what it was all about.
Dr. Michael Koren:
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And it turns out that the One to One concert was a benefit that John Lennon and Yoko Ono put together for Willowbrook Hospital, which actually has a personal connection to me because Willowbrook was a hospital for mentally handicapped people they called it mentally retarded at the time, as you might recall, and it was one of the largest and not the largest facility for people that had these mental disabilities.
Dr. Michael Koren:
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And back in the 60s and the early 70s it was a really horrible place, quite frankly, with poor treatment of the people that were there, including poor treatment from a research standpoint, which we'll get into in a second. Okay, but fascinating that Lennon and Yoko Ono put together a benefit to help the hospital and to raise awareness about the bad condition and also to give the residents a wonderful day. And it turns out that this was Lennon and Yoko Ono's last major concert and there was incredible footage of this concert that had not been previously released and this documentary that was put together by Sean Lennon highlighted that footage and I got to see it in an IMAX theater with incredible sound and really incredible video. So some of the classic Lennon numbers from the early 70s, like Instant Karma and Imagine and Cold Turkey and Mother, were all presented and I was blown away by it, quite frankly. But it also reminded me of how much progress we've made on medical ethics and research compared to the 1970s. Yeah, absolutely.
Kevin Geddings:
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Well and of course, that's a key part of what you do every day when you're working with patients here, there are all sorts of standards that are designed to make sure that people feel very comfortable in what they're engaged in, right?
Dr. Michael Koren:
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Absolutely. We have ethics committees and a very, very thoughtful process to make sure that the risks are minimized and that the benefits of research are maximized. And our volunteers are heroes and we make it clear to them that that's how we feel. We try to treat them like that along the way.
Kevin Geddings:
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Before I let you go too, I want to make sure people are aware of a great resource. For folks that sometimes feel like they get conflicting bits of health information from all the sources online, there's a place they can go, where they can trust the information, right, Dr. Koren.
Dr. Michael Koren:
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That's the Med Evidence! platform and we're getting a lot of traction on that. So thank you for reminding everybody about that. Please check it out, please like it, and it's a unique place where you'll see two physicians who are very knowledgeable in an area have a conversation about something, and there are notes of truth that come out of these conversations that can be applied for the people who watch these videos and, of course, apply that insight to your family members and others that may be afflicted with the condition that we're talking about or the medical issue that we're talking about. So check it out, tell us if you like it and also you can leave comments. So we have an Ask Dr. Koren section where, if you have a question, you can get out there and it'll get brought to my attention and hopefully we'll address it.
Kevin Geddings:
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Yeah, yeah, it's very easy. A great website data there available for you to consume in all different formats too audio video, etc. Go to medevidence. com
Kevin Geddings:
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the Truth Behind the Data that's medevidence. com, and if you'd like to learn more about clinical trials that could relate to your chronic health condition or that of a friend or a loved one, go to encore docs. com. And, of course, there are offices located right next door to UF Flagler hospital in the Whetstone building. That's encore docs. com. The phone number (904) 730-0166. Dr. Koren, travel safely and we'll talk with you next week, okay.
Dr. Michael Koren:
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You too, have a great week, Kevin.
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