I am one of the leading experts in the Direct Primary Care model and I lecture medical students, residents, and doctors on how to start their own DPC practice.įrom 2001 – 2011, I was the editor and creator of the Placebo Journal which ran for 10 full years. These are all best sellers in this genre. I also wrote Diary of a Drug Rep as well as 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). The Placebo Chronicles was published by Broadway Books, a division of Random House, in 2005. I have written six books over the years, with NOKI being my latest. I founded Forest Direct Primary Care in 2014 and retired from the practice in 2020. I practiced family medicine for twenty-three years, first in Auburn, Maine, and then in Forest, Virginia. I am still board-certified in the specialty of Family Practice. In my final year, I was elected Chief Resident by my peers. My residency training occurred way up north at the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. I received my Bachelors of Science from the University of Virginia in 1987, my Masters of Education degree in the area of Exercise Science from the University of Houston in 1990, and my Medical Degree from the University of Texas at Houston in 1994. ![]() His young adult fiction novel, Noki, is his love letter to the sport and a tribute to young people living with special needs making themselves heard. He has witnessed the dark side of the sport with poor regulations and oversight, bad contracts, corrupt managers, and little care for the boxers themselves.ĭouglas lives in Virginia with his wife. A former boxer himself, Farrago worked with many world champion boxers when he was employed as the trainer for nutrition and conditioning for the Houston Boxing Association. In his young adult fiction novel, Noki, about a highly skilled boxer with autism and his journey to pursue his passion, Farrago shares his unique insight into the boxing world. His most recent book, The Hospital Guide to Physician Retention: Why Creating a Physician-Friendly Environment Is Critical For Your Organization’s Success, tries to help organizations understand how to keep their doctors from leaving. ![]() He blogs regularly on the broken healthcare system, he consults with hospitals on how to retain their doctors, and he has now written seven books on a variety of topics. doi: 10.5260/ Douglas Farrago is a retired family doctor who still wears many hats. He currently teaches FEMA/ DHS public information officer and incident command courses to first responders and emergency management personnel across the country. He was part of a Type II federal incident management team deploying to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. In 2001, after the September 11 attacks, Farago became a firefighter. He briefly appeared on Seinfeld in the episode "The Parking Garage". He was also the host of the 1990-91 HBO comedy show Night Rap with guests including Timothy Leary, Ed Koch, G. He has hosted 35 infomercials seen in more than 70 countries around the world. ![]() He hosted more than 160 episodes.įarago has appeared as a spokesman for shows including the " GT Express" countertop grill the "True Sleeper" foam mattress topper, T-Fal cookware and The Bissell Big Green Clean machine among others. In 1985, he replaced Gene Rayburn as the host of the game show Break the Bank, having previously appeared as a celebrity guest three times during the show's first two weeks. Joe Farago is an American actor, former stuntman and television personality. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) JSTOR ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies.
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