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My name's Chris Beard.
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I'm a family medicine practitioner
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who also practices obstetrics.
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I became a family practice physician
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with obstetrics during residency.
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In residency we had the broadest practice
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you could possibly have.
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We saw anything that came into the hospital
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but getting to know families and having newborns
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in the practice all the time was very inviting
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to me to keep doing as a career.
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Obstetrics is a little bit like old time family medicine.
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It's the closest that I can get
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to the traditions of the old country doc
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heading out to see a patient as being a part
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of the community.
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The most rewarding part of an OB practice
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in family medicine is the relationship you get
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with the patients.
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You have nine months that you spend
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in fairly close contact with somebody
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and you get to celebrate something really exciting
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a little bit nerve-wracking.
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At the deliveries you get to meet
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an extended family quite often
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and then if they decide to bring their baby
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to you for care afterwards, you get another year
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of close contact or there's a two year block
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where you get to know the patients, what they think
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and it's the closest thing to being part of their family.
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I am a patient of Dr. Beard's.
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He's been my doctor for over five years now
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and I have a two-year-old James.
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Dr. Beard was my primary care for years,
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and then he was my OB
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and he's currently James' Pediatrician as well.
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So Dr. Beard is our family doctor in every since.
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He's just always created an atmosphere where I knew
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that I could trust him and ask him his opinion
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and he'd be completely honest with me.
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That was something that I really appreciated
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and I've never had a desire to see any other doctor since
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I met Rebecca during her first prenatal visit
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it was probably the most difficult pregnancy
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I've had to manage, but through that we trusted each other.
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Her baby was born healthy.
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We enjoy our office visits
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because we've been through all that before
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and it's more than just, oh, here, take this medicine.
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We get to talk about families
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and she's gotten to know my family,
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I've gotten to know her family a little bit.
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Rebecca is more than a patient, she's a friend.
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