![]() I know this trait is not unique to my family. If others could look into my psyche - and I suspect the psyches of many others - they’d find a hopeless farrago of this stuff. ‘Cause she helps me through everything I do My inner recording device latched onto the opening songs to F Troop, Car 54 Where are you? and “My Mother the Car.” Critics say that last one, about a guy whose dead mother’s spirit came back as a car, just may be the all-time stinker of a television show, but the tune was catchy: Having no second side would have been like having an inside without an outside. About side 2, I remember zip, although I’m sure there had to be one. This boy, it seems, fell down a well and there he remained for a long time because no one could pronounce his full name. Like the recording about a small boy with an 18-syllable name that began with Nikki Nikki Tembo. Speaking only for myself here, most of my earliest memories center on the countless little songs and silly stories off those brightly-colored Disney 45s and albums that always seemed to be about the house. I’m talking here about snatches of songs, comedic routines, that neighbor’s thick accent, a commercial for Purina Cat Chow, all things that sink so deeply into one’s makeup that even the lever of Archimedes cannot dislodge them. OK, I just listened on the internet to those acts, and, eh, maybe not such a mystery there. ![]() Why my brain picked its beloveds when it might have held on with a bulldog grip to the stylings of Steve and Eydie Gorme or Jack Jones, is beyond me. He retired from clinical medicine in October, 2020.I’ve never understood the mechanism by which things we do our damnedest to remember slip through our brains without a trace while other matters on which we have expended no conscious effort at all to recall hold on forever. He is a leading expert in direct primary care model and lectures medical students, residents, and doctors on how to start their own DPC practice. Farrago’s has written three books on direct primary care: The Official Guide to Starting Your Own Direct Primary Care Practice, The Direct Primary Care Doctor’s Daily Motivational Journal and Slowing the Churn in Direct Primary Care (While Also Keeping Your Sanity) are all best sellers in this genre. Farrago still blogs every day on his website and lectures worldwide about the present crisis in our healthcare system and the effect it has on the doctor-patient relationship. He founded Forest Direct Primary Care in 2014, which quickly filled in 18 months. Farrago has practiced family medicine for twenty-three years, first in Auburn, Maine and now in Forest, Virginia. In his final year, he was elected Chief Resident by his peers. His residency training occurred way up north at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. Douglas Farrago, MD received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia in 1987, his Masters of Education degree in the area of Exercise Science from the University of Houston in 1990, and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas at Houston in 1994. Described as the Mad Magazine for doctors, he and the Placebo Journal were featured in the Washington Post, US News and World Report, the AP, and the NY Times. Farrago was the editor and creator of the Placebo Journal which ran for 10 full years. He is also the inventor of the CryoHelmet used by athletes for head injuries as well as migraine sufferers. The Knee Saver and its knock-offs are worn by many major league baseball catchers. He is the inventor of a product called the Knee Saver which is currently in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Douglas Farrago MD is board certified in the specialty of Family Practice.
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