Melissa Thomas PhD Health Care and the Amish Episode 2

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The continuation of our interview with Melissa Thomas PhD and her experiences with the Amish people of Ohio and studying their health care. Melissa has 20+ years of working with the Amish of Ohio and she has gathered so many experiences that she has also published an extremely unique boom of photographs that the Amish gave her permission to create to help people see into their lives. Melissa makes nothing from this project and all proceeds go back into the care of Amish women and preventing deaths from breast cancer. Please consider donating to her project and you can find details here: http://appalcare.org/project-hoffnung/ We also ask that you share this on Facebook and with your friends to get the word out. So the interview takes us from the LSU Tigers and Joe Burrow through a description of the history of the History of the Amish and the values of their community. I’d be remiss in this age of treacherous youth narcissism if I didn’t mention Joe Burrow (who is frankly pretty well-liked around here) and his initial action with fame. He chose not to discuss himself but to focus on the needs of the poor in his community. In the process he helped raise $500,000 for the food bank right before COVID-19 hit the area. That was not an act. Joe is genuinely a good man, and a Bengal, so if you want to follow his lead, consider helping the food bank. Athens Food Bank https://www.facebook.com/athenscountyfoodpantry/ https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/oh-athens Rumspringa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumspringa#:~:text=Rumspringa%20(Pennsylvania%20German%20pronunciation%3A%20%5B,used%20in%20some%20Amish%20communities. Joseph F. Donnermeyer, PhD MA, Professor Emeritus, OSU https://oaa.osu.edu/donnermeyer-joseph For new listeners you might be curious about “The School whose Name Shall not be Mentioned”. Let’s be clear, I bleed Green and White and that other school gets all of the press in Ohio, so I am not going to promote them anymore. But if you really want to know who I am referring to… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxyWj4DMo-8 Finally, I am going to keep the reggae. Having actually been to Bob Marley’s House and not having rights to use any of Madness’ music I am going to continue to introduce everyone to some of the very talented artists on artlist.io [e-mail] But honestly, we seldom check it. Use the Social Media links… Catch us on twitter at @RotationsPcast Todd @MedicalCinema. Brian @Profplow and Nisarg @NisargBakshi You can also send comments to Todd at TR Fredricks on Facebook. Look for more Rotations Content at mediainmedicine.com/Rotations and on Soundcloud and iTunes at Rotations Podcast. Intro and Outro Music: Tired by the Young Lords Courtesy of Artlist.io Produced by: Todd Fredricks DO and Brian Plow MFA Edited by: Todd Fredricks DO Cohost: Sarah Adkins PharmD, again, because nobody else was in the building and her minion Pi wanted to participate in a podcast… Disclaimers: Todd Fredricks, DO Cut Clip: I should get there in the next few weeks. Rotations is produced using (and we always accept donations from any gear folks): Rode Podcaster Pro Rode NT1-A mics Zoom H4N Rode Lavalier Go Polsen Studio Headphones Kopul XLR cables SanDisk media Final Cut Pro X MacBook Pro Tama mic stands Rotations is part of the Media in Medicine family of medical storytelling and is copyrighted. Rotations is made possible by the generous understanding and accommodation of our beloved institution, Ohio University and by the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine and Scripps College of Communications. The comments and ideas expressed on Rotations are that of the content creators alone and may not reflect official policy or the opinion of any agency of the Ohio University.