Health - Doctor and Patient Relationship

October 21, 2011

Interview with Dr. Lee Riley, co-author of the book The Back Book (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

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Mike Carruthers:
Back trouble is a lot more common than you might think.

Lee Riley, M.D.:
Eighty-percent of people over the course of their lives have trouble with their back. So it's very common. It's as common as getting a cold.
 

August 8, 2011

Interview with Jeff Knott, author of the book Navigating the Healthcare Maze: What You Need to Know

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Mike Carruthers:
Want to get more out of a doctor visit? Then first understand who's running the show at the doctor's office.

Jeff Knott:
The woman behind the sliding-glass window controls the whole office. So wear your best, smart, casual clothes - first impressions mean a lot.
 

October 1, 2010

Interview with Davis Liu, M.D., author of the book Stay Healthy, Live Longer, Spend Wisely: Making Intelligent Choices in America's Healthcare System

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Mike Carruthers:
When you're healthy it's easy to take your health for granted, however…

Davis Liu, M.D.:
Good health is priceless and it's the most powerful financial asset we have. For example, with good health you can always make more money but with more money you can't always get good health.

 April 6, 2010

Interview with Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg, author of The Smart Parent's Guide: Getting Your Kids Through Checkups, Illnesses, and Accidents

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Mike Carruthers:
For a medicine to be sold it must first be tested and proven safe and effective – at least that’s true for adult medicine. But for children, it’s a little different.

Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg:
Often many, many drugs or medications that we give to children we give to them “off label.” And off label is a term we use as doctors to describe a medication that is given for something different than what it’s indicated for or for an age group that it hasn’t really, specifically been tested on.
 

Jennifer Trachtenberg, M.D.

September 29, 2009
Interview with Dr. Travis Stork, host of the TV show The Doctors

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Mike Carruthers:
Most emergency room visits are not in an ambulance where seconds count. So if you are headed to the ER, take a few moments to prepare.

Dr. Travis Stork:
You need to know that you’re meeting a doctor for the first time and he or she has to put together the puzzle and part of that puzzle is your own history and the medicines you take.

August 13, 2009

Interview with Patrick Malone, author of The Life You Save
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Mike Carruthers:
During a typical doctor visit you don't get a lot of time to discuss the details, so a little preparation can help...

Patrick Malone:
Write down what is bothering you: "Why am I going to see this doctor, what are the top three or four things on my mind?"

August 12, 2009

Interview with Patrick Malone, author of The Life You Save
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Mike Carruthers:
According to the medical industry's own statistics…

Patrick Malone:
Forty thousand injuries occur everyday that are preventable - anything from preventable infections to people getting the wrong surgery to doctors making a misdiagnosis.
 

 July 1, 2009

Interview with Gerri Monaghan, author of The Power of Two: Surviving Serious Illness with an Attitude and an Advocate
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Mike Carruthers:
Here's a woman who knew something was wrong with her husband. So they went to the doctor and were told everything was fine but she insisted on a second opinion…

Gerri Monaghan:
Within twelve hours an MRI of the brain showed two brain tumors. He was given three to six months to live and that was May of 1998.

            Gerri & Brian 
             Monaghan

June 10, 2009
Interview with Howard Gleckman, author of Caring for Our Parents

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Mike Carruthers:
As we live longer and longer some of us will become frail and unable to care for ourselves.

Howard Gleckman:
75% of people who are 65 or older will need long-term care sometime in their lives.

May 28, 2009

Interview with Lisa Gualtieri Professor Tufts University Medical School www.lisagualtieri.com

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Mike Carruthers:
It's very common to go online to get health information from the Internet, particularly when you're sick because you want to know what's wrong with you before you go to the doctor. But that can cause a problem.

Lisa Gualtieri:
People are not talking with their doctors about what they find online and in some cases are actually using the information that they find to determine how current their physician's knowledge is.