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Good morning everybody Äôm Karla Macias and welcome to
another episode of the Best Docs Network Featuring Forest Park
Medical Center right here in Austin Texas.
WÄôre going to be taking a look at this brand new hospital
thaÄôll be coming to your area and wÄôll be featuring some of
the best doctors, the latest technology and of course the
best equipment.
Now letÄôs jump into our very first doctor, Dr. Kevin Doner.
Initially I was tired, kind of run down but I also had some
symptoms that just werenÄôt right.
There was some bleeding where bleeding shouldÄôt happen and
it happened for a while.
I kind of let it go on for too long and it was, I knew
something wasÄôt right.
Michelle came in with a stage 3 colon cancer.
Stage 3 is still a curable stage but iÄôs an advanced stage,
iÄôs an aggressive stage that usually requires a combination
of treatments to attempt to cure it.
So she had surgery, she had a long course of chemotherapy, she
also had radiation.
The great thing that Dr. Doner said to me when I was diagnosed
was this is curable, this is curable.
You, you know, it, your treatment may be tough but you
know yoÄôre going to make it through this and itÄôs going to
be okay.
Thankfully with modern treatments itÄôs very curable
and she did great with chemotherapy and here we are
several years later to talk about it.
After the 5 year mark we can usually say sheÄôs cancer free
or cured, so she would be a good example of a success story with
modern oncology cure.
It marveled me because you donÄôt think into the future.
I mean you really donÄôt want to bet on anything so you may
think about your next treatment or finishing your treatment but
not necessarily living another year because you doÄôt want to
necessarily bank on that so iÄôs amazing how when you look
back from here to that person that I was back then and now
honestly cancer is not even on my radar.
I donÄôt worry about it, I donÄôt think about it.
My kids are growing up, it was such a really scary time for the
family and itÄôs, weÄôre so fortunate and happy to be where
we are today and just able to live life without worry.
Every spring, February, March I try to go down to Honduras.
IÄôve been doing it probably for about the last 7 years and I
work with a group called Predisan and we do surgery in
the mountains of eastern Honduras on the locals there
that caÄôt afford to get to healthcare.
They have 3 or 4 family practice physicians that live and work in
that area.
They spend the entire year scheduling or screening these
patients and getting ready for us and so we get down there and
wÄôll do probably 6 or 7 surgeries a day myself and
usually a general surgeon or two and for the week weÄôll
probably end up doing 40 or 50 surgeries in 4 or 5 days.
I have friends that have done mission trips before in medicine
and theÄôve been asking me to join them and I always tried to
find excuses not to go and it just kept getting on me and
about 8 years ago, Predisan approached me and said that they
needed a gynecologist in eastern Honduras and asked me if Äôd
be interested.
And they said that we had two ORs set up with all the surgical
instruments that yoÄôll need and all we need is you to come
down and you can do surgery in a modern facility and thaÄôs all
I needed to hear.
I said sign me up.
By and large we are able to take care of the patients in ways
that patients are not used to.
They do get the surgery done and some of them, iÄôs life
changing.
They doÄôt have access to surgeons there in Catacamas and
the closest surgeon is probably about 150 miles away which by
United States standards is not that far but for people who
donÄôt have access to transportation, it might as well
be 1,000 miles away.
So by being down there weÄôre helping them out and giving them
care that again they may not otherwise be having access to.
Everyday weÄôre bombarded with how bad medicine here is in the
United States and to go down to Honduras and see what those
people have to endure just to get in to see a doctor or have
surgery and come back here and realize how blessed we are with
the system that we have with the quality of training.
As physicians we need to do something to give back to those
that maybe not are as blessed as we are.
And so thatÄôs been my goal is I want to practice here in the
United States and I want to do everything I can for those that
are less fortunate.
So I try to do everything I can to be involved with you know
charity groups, with nonprofit groups and try to use my medical
talents as best I can to help others that are less fortunate.
Did you know that Forest Park Medical Center was voted as one
of the top 100 places to work in the Dallas, Fort Worth area?
Forest Park Medical Center received this honor for the
second year in a row.
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Now on to our next doctor, orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Michael
Putney.
I was a gymnast in college.
My originals symptoms were just constantly irritated shoulder,
couldÄôt sleep at night, my rotation was being limited a
little bit.
I ran a race and did some additional damage to my shoulder
and I knew Dr. Putney some mutual friends so I scheduled an
appointment to come see him.
For shoulder rotator cuff tears you seem to have two groups of
people that it happens to.
One is young athletes who sustain some sort of sudden
injury or pop when throwing a ball or playing tennis and the
other group of people is older people who probably through wear
and tear gradually wear a hole or a tear in their rotator cuff
and it finally gives.
He was in that category of people where his injury was more
sudden and traumatic and certainly thaÄôs why we
approached him in a much more surgical fashion.
My other options were very limiting if I wanted to continue
to do anything particularly working out or playing golf
therapy would only buy me a little time, it wouldÄôt fix
the problem so surgery was really the only way to take care
of the problem.
I treated David arthroscopically and we went in and sewed back,
his torn tissue back to the bone.
People may ask how do you sew something to bone?
We actually on the rotator cuffs and the labrum we actually will
drill a hole in the bone and put an anchor that has stitches in
it and we sew the tissue to the bone.
My shoulder after surgery is starting to feel, IÄôm still
going through rehab, Äôm only about 3 months since surgery so
IÄôm still in rehabilitation so iÄôs still a little bit of the
recovery, a little soreness to work through but I feel like
IÄôm on the right track to be back and fully active again.
I think another month or two for David and hÄôll really be
seeing a lot of improvement.
I think hÄôs right at that point where things are starting
to turn around in regards to both his strength and his range
of motion.
IÄôve been a big proponent of Dr. PutneyÄôs.
IÄôve told a lot of people you know that he did a great job.
I think he interacted well, I felt very confident in his
ability to get people back to where they need to be.
Best Docs Network featuring Forest Park Medical Center is
your destination to better health.
At Forest Park we really, we call it the six senses of Forest
Park and you have your conventional five you know and
it talks about the experience that you get from the minute
that you come on to our campus.
So weÄôre really kind of playing into those senses, so
what are you seeing when you first get on the campus and walk
into our hospitals?
You know are you looking at just great architecture or are you
looking at a brighter environment you know with
natural sunlight and things of that nature?
The art program is something that plays into the healing
aspect, the visual aspect.
So, youÄôll see sculpture, youÄôll see original pieces,
youÄôll see print, youÄôll see a little bit of everything.
And the way that we attack art is you should feel a little bit
uncomfortable with art you know, because if every piece of art in
our facilities was something that you absolutely loved then
you probably didnÄôt reach the entire community because we all
have different tastes, different aspects of what we like.
What are you smelling?
We have engineered scents in all of our hospitals to where iÄôs
an engineering system called scent stream and itÄôs built
into our HVAC and the scent that Forest Park has chosen is called
clean sheets.
Other things that you have just kind of coming into our
environment is you know what type of food are you having, the
taste.
You know we donÄôt have cafeterias we have dining
facilities.
What are you hearing when you come on to our campus and into
our facility as well?
Oftentimes in every facility that we do we have water
features, both outdoor water features and interior water
features.
So it provides a calming type sound that resonates throughout
our facilities.
What are the things that yoÄôre feeling?
We have a lot of textural elements associated with our
design.
When yoÄôre coming in, the textural walls, whether iÄôs
the stone cut exterior of a lot of our facilities or when
youÄôre coming inside and youÄôre feeling the texture of
the fabric itself.
You know we really try to play into all of those senses for our
patients so you know whether iÄôs in the lobby or iÄôs in
the patient rooms or you know the thread count on the sheets,
you know, those are the type of texture elements that really you
may not instinctively know about those but when you actually
touch it and feel it, iÄôll make a difference to you.
Every one of our facilities is a minimum of leed silver, so what
that means is iÄôs our environmental impact to the
community as well.
So we have rooftop gardens where you have lush gardens that can
be seen from all of our patient rooms, yoÄôre seeing planting,
youÄôre seeing stone, yoÄôre seeing in some cases water
features associated with even our green roofs but itÄôs
something that really kind of plays into the sixth sense of
Forest Park which is heal and having a patient room that looks
down onto grasses and trees and plants, you know it
intrinsically has a healing aspect that really our patients
have grown to appreciate.
Again wÄôre playing to each of those senses and then our sixth
sense is heal because at the end of the day, thaÄôs why wÄôre
here.
WÄôre here for the community, wÄôre healing patients and
providing a place for our physicians to practice medicine.
Walking on to our campuses from step one what we really kind of
focus on is that entire experience.
It should look and feel not like a hospital but it should look
more like a hotel.
YouÄôre really seeing something different.
It has a completely different feel from anything else that
youÄôve see in the market.
You know our job as developers and as Forest Park Medical
Center is to deliver a facility thaÄôs different than what the
physicians are used to, what the patients are used to.
Dr. Ned Snyder is a plastic surgeon and reconstructive
specialist here in the Austin area.
Now letÄôs hear his methods on practicing medicine.
From the time that a patient becomes engaged with our office
until the completion of their breast reconstruction when in
many cases that can be complicated.
We may see somebody at the very beginning with a cancer
diagnosis and we may not finish them until after theyÄôve had
what can turn into a lengthy process of treatment and weÄôre
with them the entire time.
I think that we play an important role in their cancer
treatment and I think we take a lot of pride in that and the one
the sort of customer satisfaction end of it or
customer service end of that but also in outcomes.
I think that we have exceptional outcomes and I think that our
patients are extremely happy with the product.
So I think itÄôs important and I tell this to all patients that
IÄôm going to stick with them all the way through.
And some patients come to us with complicated problems that
are not as straightforward as a new cancer diagnosis and a
reconstruction at that time, they may have had failed
reconstructions from other places and Äôm going to stick
with them until theÄôre done and I promise them that from the
start.
So I think that thaÄôs an important tenant of kind of what
we, what we represent or what we, what we do here.
From staff to surgeons to technology and technique Forest
Park Medical Center is your destination to better health.
Now letÄôs take a look at what some of the awesome physicians
are looking forward to with Forest Park Medical Center.
I think Forest Park in Austin is going to be a great, great
thing.
IÄôs a great excellent medical facility.
The doctors involved with it are going to be great.
IÄôs going to be a very great opportunity for the patient to
have another choice in something that is going to be geared to
not only giving them excellent healthcare but a great medical
experience.
IÄôm excited about Forest Park, I think iÄôs going to be a
terrific asset to the Austin community in that iÄôs going
to be a new hospital of a new type.
IÄôs going to be doctor managed and driven and will be
focused on taking care of patients and focused on the best
outcomes and the best patient care.
Medicine is about the doctor and the patient.
We want to have perfectly open communication with patients and
you know I think thatÄôs what Forest Park is all about.
IÄôs giving the patient a really excellent experience and
excellent healthcare all at the same time.
IÄôm really excited about joining the Forest Park family.
I think that medical care should be between doctors and their
patients and Äôm really excited about being involved
with a hospital thaÄôs run by doctors.
A lot of times physicians have ideas about what could be done
differently to make it a better experience for the patient or a
less costly experience for the hospital but oftentimes wÄôre
not able to make those changes and so I wanted to be able to
make those changes since this would be a physician controlled
hospital.
IÄôve had the pleasure of actually doing some surgeries in
the Dallas Forest Park.
IÄôs a beautiful facility and iÄôs extremely well run.
Again IÄôm a surgeon so what happens in the OÄôs is
important to me and the OÄôs were very well staffed, very
well stocked and ran like a clock, it was perfect.
The other thing about Forest Park is that based on it being
physician controlled and based on its size it is better able to
adapt and evolve as things change because in medicine
things are always changing and if you doÄôt adapt and evolve
quickly then what youÄôre doing tends to not be the standard of
care anymore and so thaÄôs another reason I was so
interested in Forest Park.
IÄôm excited about Forest Park.
IÄôs my honor to be associated with them.
I have been here in Round Rock for a long time and we have
missed a hospital like this.
I think the whole concept of Forest Park is centered around
improved patient care and actually saving them money by
reducing the administrative cost that exists at other hospitals.
This is a good thing for Austin and iÄôs a good thing for the
doctors and iÄôs a good thing for medical care.
One great thing about Forest Park is that they include the
dining aspect or the food aspect for our patient care.
Not only do they have great dieticians on site to make sure
that the dietary needs are met for the patients but they also
consider the patients families needs as well.
LetÄôs face it, sometimes youÄôre in the hospital, this
facility, six or seven hours if not longer, sometimes overnight,
sometimes two or three days and iÄôs not the typical food.
We do everything from scratch which means that we do
everything from the starting point all the way to the
finished product.
We do pork tenderloin, we do roasted chickens, we do gourmet
pizzas.
We even do some things like grandmÄôs meatloaf but
everythinÄôs made from scratch.
We follow recipes, nothing comes out of a can.
Our sauces are all made from scratch.
When you walk into our dining facility, our dining facility
here is named Caf© 114, it feels like a real ca©.
You donÄôt walk into it and iÄôs the oh type of tray lined
service here, every single day the menu changes.
So for example one day you may have a carving station with a
prime rib on it.
The next day on that carving station it may be a baked potato
bar and the plate itself is a work of art.
IÄôs just not something thaÄôs piled on the plate and
sent to the guest or sent to the patient.
IÄôs a work of art because you know you may not always come in
here where yoÄôre just on a clear liquid diet, you can
actually have surgery where you can eat regular food.
So we have to take those cases and we want them to feel like
you know what this is unbelievable, this is not
hospital food.
We doÄôt ever want to be stereotyped or categorized as
hospital food.
We are a ca© dining facility and you can get fresh grilled
salmon, we have fresh tuna here, we have a fish of the week.
We have grilled pork chops you can get, grilled chicken.
Along with that you can have that grilled, make your salad,
give it to one of my grill cooks and wÄôll put it on the salad
for you.
It really starts with Chef Jason Douglas.
This guy is absolutely amazing when it comes to food.
He is truly an artist when it comes to the culinary aspect of
it.
He has an eye for making your food look so pretty and edible
at the same time that you donÄôt want to touch it because
it looks so great.
ThaÄôs one element about dining service I doÄôt have to
worry about because I know when hÄôs there that the guests,
our patients are going to get the absolute best that he has to
offer every single day.
So what we try to do is we try to be innovative with our food,
very cost effective, but most importantly want a great quality
of food.
I have this saying that if iÄôs not done in the spirit of
excellence, we woÄôt serve it.
Did you know Forest Park Medical Center is known for having
larger than average operating rooms.
Larger ORÄôs allow doctors the flexibility to house
groundbreaking technology such as the Da Vinci Robot, the
Makoplasty robotic arm and Acessa that helps improve
minimally invasive and accurate procedures.
What it means for Forest Park to be a part of the Austin
community, weÄôre just really excited to be here.
We feel very honored that surgeons have asked us to be a
part of the Austin community.
IÄôs a great opportunity for the surgeons, iÄôs a great
opportunity for the patients in the North Austin medical
community.
What makes Forest Park different from other hospitals in the
Austin area and even throughout the U.S.
is that wÄôre a truly physician owned hospital.
We are governed by the physicians who are the majority
owners so the physicians have a lot of say so in the day to day
operations of the hospital, from the medical staff to the OR to
the equipment that they want to have as part of their hospital
that they own.
We have three existing hospitals that are open right now and
three under development.
TheÄôre all truly unique.
Every hospital serves the physicians that are
participating in the hospital.
Every community has a different need and so we will serve what
Austin needs and what our surgeons need.
Each hospital is like a 5 star hotel so that when a patient and
a family member walks into the hospital you really donÄôt
think that youÄôre in a hospital.
IÄôs not a cold, sterile environment.
IÄôs very warming, you feel comfortable there.
The patients rooms are very spacious, theyÄôre very
beautiful.
Some of the hospital rooms actually have a VIP suite
attached to the patient room.
That room has a flat screen TV, a refrigerator, a pull out bed
so family can stay overnight.
The caliber of physicians that we have at Forest Park we think
are some of the best of the best that Austin has to offer to
patients.
The estimated number of physician partners we have right
now, we have 70 in the partnership.
We have 12 different specialties involved in our specialty mix.
We hope to add additional partners in the near future as
well as additional specialties.
We bring the best surgeons to our hospitals, we have the best
staff, we have the best service.
We have, we feel like the best hospital that Austin will have.
Forest Park Medical Center is truly one of a kind.
The things that make Forest Park unique are our focus on whaÄôs
best for the patient and whaÄôs best for the physician.
WÄôre different in many ways from other organizations because
our physicians are our owners, they are our bosses and to that
end we want to do whatever we can to be sure that they get
their needs met.
WÄôre here for them, theÄôre here for their patients and
working together, wÄôre not fighting a bureaucracy, wÄôre
not fighting a corporate office thaÄôs not even in the same
state as us sometimes.
WÄôre making whaÄôs best for this hospital at this moment at
that time.
We doÄôt have to wait and thaÄôs what our physicians
like, immediate results.
As new things become available like the MAKO robot, some of the
new technologies, Forest Park is very quick to want to be a part
of those things.
If thatÄôs something that our surgeon wants or feels like
would benefit his patient population, wÄôre willing to
do that for them and thatÄôs exciting to have an organization
that leaps forward that quickly.
IÄôs much more collaborative, theÄôre very involved in their
choice of equipment.
We try to involve them in any major decisions so that they
feel that they have a buy into this, theÄôre a part of it.
One of the physicians said to me the other day, I feel like
IÄôve worked with this team for years because it just got the
flow down, it just works.
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Now on to our next doctor whoÄôs taking concierge
medicine to a whole different level, Dr. Mason Jones.
Well the number one killer in America today is as most
everybody probably knows is cardiovascular disease and
complications related to that.
IÄôs a serious problem in our country and iÄôs hard to lay
blame, you know we all tend to eat too much.
What it all comes back to is basically absolute caloric
restriction.
Where you get in trouble with any food is eating too much of
any one thing.
As far as the recommended daily caloric intake, really we need
on average about 1200 to 1600 calories a day basically to
survive.
You can get by on less of course but you know the average
American doesÄôt need more than about 2000 calories a day
really.
Most of us probably take in twice that.
The calories sneak in everywhere.
And the key with you know weight loss is slow and steady, you
know baby steps.
Anybody can drop a ton of weight all at once by starving
themself.
The problem is that our body is really efficient at reabsorbing
all those calories when you fall off the wagon on the backend.
But thereÄôs really powerful data behind daily exercise.
You know if you take one group of folks and keep them sedentary
and one group of folks and start moving them around, the folks
that are more active have lower risk of heart disease, stroke,
high cholesterol, I mean you name it the benefits are many
and varied.
The key is that it needs to be at least 30 minutes
uninterrupted at a good clip.
As far as exercise specifically what do we recommend?
Well strength training is probably the single best
exercise and the reason why is because strength training has a
feedback where not only do you strengthen the individual muscle
that yoÄôre exercising but those muscles stay metabolically
active for hours and hours later continuing to remodel and burn
calories.
Additionally when those muscles pull on the skeletal system they
force the skeleton to stay stronger.
Strength training has really a huge array of benefits and
iÄôs my go to exercise for anybody, even if yoÄôre just
starting and it can be as simple as doing pushups on your knees
on the floor in the house.
But strength training is really where iÄôs at and the beauty
of it is you can do it anywhere and thereÄôs no excuse.
IÄôs not oh I caÄôt afford the gym, you doÄôt need the
gym.
Oh, well Äôm traveling, well do it in the hotel room.
You can do it anywhere.
Brenda has a question for Dr. David Cuellar.
Are kidney stones preventable?
90 percent of kidney stones are preventable.
It typically takes some testing, a 24 hour urine collection, some
blood work to figure out which of the 10 or so reasons is that
patients reason but once we figure that out we can prevent
stones 90 percent of the time so they doÄôt come back either by
changing that persons diet or putting them on a medication or
just having them drink more water and less soda.
From staff to surgeons, from technology to technique, Forest
Park Medical Center Austin is your destination to better
health.
Thank you everybody for joining on this weeÄôs episode of the
Best Docs Network featuring Forest Park Medical Center right
here in Austin, Texas.
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So long Austin and we will see you next week.