Gratitude In Clinical Research

Dr. Michael Koren joins Kevin Geddings to give thanks this week. The doctor gives gratitude to Kevin, his team, clinical research staff, MedEvidence staff, and most of all, patients. Dr. Koren expresses his heartfelt thanks to everyone who pushes science and research forward!

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Guest Introduction
• 0:56 Gratitude As A Guiding Principle
• 2:11 Thanks To Staff, Patients, And Partners
• 3:58 Everyday Kindness And Patient Motivation
• 4:42 Reliable Health Info And MedEvidence
• 5:48 Closing And Where To Learn More

Transcript

Announcer: 0:00

Welcome to the Med Evidence Monday Minutes Radio Show, hosted by Kevin Geddings of WSOS St. Augustine Radio and powered by ENCORE. Each Monday morning, Dr. Michael Koren calls in to bring you the latest Medical Updates with insightful discussion. MedEvidence is where we help you navigate the real truth behind medical research, with Both clinical and research perspective. So step back, relax, and get ready to learn about the truth behind the data in medicine and healthcare. This is MedEvidence!

Kevin Geddings: 0:30

Dr. Michael Koren joining us live in the studio line as he does on Mondays. We appreciate him doing this on Thanksgiving week, especially he's a medical doctor, cardiologist, research scientist. He also directs all the efforts at, ENCORE Research Group where people like you and me, we can all participate in leading edge clinical research. We can participate in medical research, could benefit ourselves in terms of our healthcare status, but probably just as importantly, if not more so, help move society forward. And I know you wanted to give thanks on this Thanksgiving week, correct?

Dr. Michael Koren: 1:01

You got it, Kevin. My theme for the week is to really express my gratitude to the many, many people who have made our company successful and have made our our ability to move science forward successful. And I couldn't be more thankful. And philosophically, I do believe that expressing gratitude is something that we really need to do more of individually and as a society. I think if we thought about this concept of really expressing gratitude when we interact in our day-to-day ways with uh members of our staff, with people in commerce, with our friends and family, I think the society would be much better off. And and typically people have this feeling of gratitude, but they don't always express it. So I'm gonna try to practice what I preach and really express my gratitude today. And number one, I want to thank you, Kevin, for doing this wonderful broadcast. Um I I appreciate how you bring the best out in me and my company, and and and you do a wonderful job at it, so thank you for that. I want to thank you also on the happier listeners because I think you provide very valuable information to them, so that's terrific. I want to thank my staff. I have an amazing staff. We have over a hundred people that work for the ENCORE Research Group, which is a Division of Flourish Research, a national company. And we have our MedEvidence group of people. It's a small but strong core, five or six people that get the word out to the public. And these are invaluable messages that talk about the truth behind the data, and I want to thank them for really their fabulous work, their tireless efforts. And I want to most importantly thank our patients. You know, over the course of my 30-plus year career doing research here in Northeast Florida, we've treated thousands of patients in clinical research studies. And I hope that uh people perceive the benefits of this participation. People that are involved in our research are getting insights into their own health care, number one. And number two, they get to work with this amazing staff and and there's some fun involved with that. Uh three, in many cases, they get paid for what they do, which is a nice little benefit to show our gratitude. And most importantly, in the big picture, is you participate into society in our goal for better health care overall. So you're doing something for yourself and at the same time you do something for the common good. And a lot of our patients love to be in that situation, love to have that opportunity to do things that are good for themselves and their family and the common good. So all for really those contributions to what we do, it's what makes my life meaningful.

Kevin Geddings: 3:42

That was very nice. Well, thank you, Dr. Michael Koren, and we're very appreciative of your partnership with us here at WSOS, and our listeners look forward to your call-ins on Mondays. I hear from them all the time about that, and they enjoy this a lot. So thank you for your commitment of time and resources to make it all happen. And such a good point, too. You know, when you just are a little bit kinder and appreciate some thanks, you know, to the person that's handing you the coffee at Dunkin' Donuts or the person that just checked you out of Publix, you can just see a smile on their face. It actually, for a lot of folks, will make their day, it might be the only time they get any sense of gratitude during the entire day, right?

Dr. Michael Koren: 4:16

Absolutely. And and I'll also flip that, I still practice cardiology, as you mentioned, and what gets me most motivated, quite frankly, Kevin, is the gratitude of my patients. There's nothing that floats my boat more than having a patient really show that they got something out of the interaction with me. And uh that's what drives me. That's what keeps me going. So uh thank you, patience, for expressing your gratitude to me.

Kevin Geddings: 4:41

Yeah, absolutely. Something I want to give thanks for is the Med Evidence platform because it's a great resource for us to send our listeners to where they can get reliable, reliable healthcare information, right, Dr. Koren?

Dr. Michael Koren: 4:54

You bet. And uh reliable is a key word. As you and I have talked about on many occasions, most of the information you get on the internet is really coming from people that have a very vested interest in selling you something or have a very specific point of view. In MedEvidence we take a very objective approach. We present things in any particular area of medicine based on what we know, based on what we don't know, and then helping people understand what it is that we do to learn about the things that we don't know. So that's our approach. It's a very objective approach, and I'm getting just really positive feedback. The other thing we'd like to do in Med Evidence is make it entertaining. So we've had a lot of recent podcasts that people have told me have been fun to watch, and we hope that you both enjoy it and learn something from these presentations.

Kevin Geddings: 5:42

Well, it's all there for you. It doesn't cost a dime. Great, great resource for good information you can trust, MedEvidence.com. Dr. Koren, thank you very much for joining us. Of course, have a great Thanksgiving, a safe one, and we'll speak with you next week, okay?

Dr. Michael Koren: 6:02

Bye bye.

Announcer: 6:02

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