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Something You Should Know about the Doctor/Patient Relationship

What If You Go To The Emergency Room

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.
Dr. Travis Stork

 

Kids' Doctor Visits

January 14, 2009
Interview with Bruce Taubman, M.D., author of Your Child's Symptoms: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Pediatric Medicine

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When a child gets sick, parents are often torn between treating the child at home themselves or going to the doctor.

 

Bruce Taubman, M.D.:
It's important for parents to realize that a visit in which they're worried their child is sick and they come to the office and they're told there's nothing serious, is not a wasted visit. One of the major roles of a Pediatrician is to reassure the parents that their children are healthy.

  

 

Pitfalls of Getting Medical Information On The Web

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.
Lisa Gualitieri

 

Long Term Care Crisis

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.
Howard Gleckman

 

Dangers Of CT Scans

February 4, 2009
Interview with Michael Ozner, M.D., author of The Great American Heart Hoax

 

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Mike Carruthers:
Heart disease is the number one killer - a lot of people get it and if you or someone you know has been told you need heart surgery…

 

Michael Ozner, M.D.:
My suggestion would be to consider getting a second opinion.
 
Michael Ozner, M.D.

 

Heart Disease - The Right Way To Treat It

February 4, 2009
Interview with Michael Ozner, M.D., author of The Great American Heart Hoax

 

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Mike Carruthers:
When someone is having a heart attack or is otherwise unstable because of heart disease, heart surgery can be life saving.

 

Michael Ozner, M.D.:
However in stable individuals who happen to have a blockage there is no data to suggest that in the vast majority of these individuals that putting in a stent or doing bypass surgery in any way lowers the risk of a future heart attack - or prolongs their life.
Michael Ozner, M.D.

 

Testing For Disease

May 14, 2009

Interview with Dr. James Elrich Director of Colorado Heart & Body Imaging

www.coloradoheart.com

 

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Mike Carruthers:

Diagnosing heart disease is hardly an exact science.

 

Dr. James Elrich:
85% of people who get a heart attack would have been considered at low risk by their doctor in the weeks prior to that devastating event. And these people would have passed their stress test.
Dr. James Elrich

 

Get The Best Medical Care - Part 2

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?"

 
Patrick Malone

Get The Best Medical Care

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.
 
Patrick Malone

Why You Need A Medical Advocate

 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

 

 

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