Location:
United States
Genres:
Podcasts
Description:
An examination of medical ethics and the practioners who define them.
Language:
English
Episodes
ACES and Trauma Informed Care Part 2
8/16/2020
Adverse childhood experiences (ACES) harm children's developing brains and lead to long term physical and emotional health issues. While we can’t go back and undo early trauma, we can intervene using “trauma informed care” approaches.
Duration:00:03:35
ACES and Trauma Informed Care: Part 1
8/9/2020
ACES are adverse childhood experiences that harm children's developing brains and lead to changing how they respond to stress and damaging their immune systems so profoundly that the effects show up decades later. ACEs cause much of our burden of chronic disease, most mental illness, and are at the root of most violence.
Duration:00:03:39
The state of Alzheimer Disease in America
8/2/2020
A new test offers some benefits, but also some risks, to finding out if you are at high risk for Alzheimer’s - a disease for which there are currently no good treatments available.
Duration:00:03:43
The impact of race on kidney transplantation
7/26/2020
In many ways social, economic, and medical the cards are stacked against some people getting a transplantation.
Duration:00:03:09
The prohibition against marijuana in the hospital
7/19/2020
Why is a drug that can be so useful to a group of patients not allowed in the hospital?
Duration:00:03:33
Leaving the World Health Organization
7/12/2020
This decision to leave the WHO is among the most irresponsible the president has made and will negatively impact not only American lives but people in every corner of the world.
Duration:00:03:44
A practical steps to protect those at risk of suicide
7/5/2020
Extreme Risk Protection Orders are a relatively new step that can be taken to protect the public from those who are felt to be of risk to themselves or others.
Duration:00:03:44
Changes in thinking about blood pressure
6/28/2020
For some elderly taking several blood pressure medications can be risky. Do they need to take multiple medicines? Doctor have been hesitant to stop blood pressure medications because they fear they might harm their patients. The OPTIMISE trial results provides some reassurance.
Duration:00:03:40
Practice Guidelines the drive toward racial disparities
6/21/2020
Practice guidelines use evidence to help doctors and patients make decisions about care. But, if the guidelines are biased so too are the decisions.
Duration:00:03:46
Medical Leadership and Conflicts of Interest
6/14/2020
Why do we listen to expert medical groups when they have conflicts of interests that involve pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers?
Duration:00:03:32
Racism and Medicine
6/7/2020
With regard to racism, medicine is part of the problem and needs to quickly become part of the solution.
Duration:00:03:51
The dangerous use of off label prescribing in times of a pandemic
5/31/2020
Off label prescribing as grown into an enormous problem, and it risks putting people’s health at risk.
Duration:00:03:52
Implicit Bias in Mental Health
5/24/2020
Could it be that our subconscious biases lead us to make assumptions that are not based on the facts?
Duration:00:04:18
The right to NOT know a medical diagnosis
5/17/2020
Doctors have a moral, ethical and legal duty to inform patients of their medical results. But, do patients have a right to NOT be told crucial medical information?
Duration:00:03:14
200 years of change started by one woman
5/10/2020
Florence Nightingale is known as a champion of nursing but she did much more….
Duration:00:03:44
The origins of the antiviral drug Remdesivir
5/3/2020
The long journey for Remdesivir starting with a deadly cat disease
Duration:00:04:51
Fake news and its impact on health
4/26/2020
Medical journalists need to slow down and do their homework before reporting on new research. Covering medicine is not a race, but a slow evolving process.
Duration:00:03:52
The stigma around COVID can be as dangerous as the virus, says Dr. Wilkes
4/19/2020
In many of those countries stigma around the disease plays an important role. Today we look at Tunisia and the role stigma plays in managing COVID.
Duration:00:03:27
COVID-19 in Africa
4/12/2020
Thinking about COVID-19 may different around the world
Duration:00:03:25
Missed lessons from the Ebola Outbreak
4/5/2020
With each epidemic there are important lessons to be learned. When we do not learn from these lessons, the next time around we are bound to make the same errors.
Duration:00:03:49