Tag Archives: Longevity

The Ethics of Grateful Patient Fundraising in Medicine

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH®, Adam and guest co-hosts Dr. Jamila Battle and Dr. Emily Hanna welcome ophthalmologist Dr. Megan Collins—of both the Wilmer Eye Institute and the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins—for a conversation about the ethics of grateful patient fundraising in medicine.
Dr. Megan Collins

You can catch the episode on:

97.9 FM The Hill

  • Saturday, March 23 at 9 a.m.
  • Sunday, March 24 at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, March 25 at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, March 24 at 7 a.m.

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Violence in intimate relationships and its effects

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & guest co-host Dr. Michael Baca-Atlas will be talking with Melinda Manning, director of UNC Hospitals’ Beacon Program, about violence in intimate relationships and the effects it can have.Melinda Manning

Please tune in! The show will air: 

WCHL 97.9 FM

  • Saturday, May 13, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Sunday, May 14, at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
  • Monday, May 15, at 6 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.3 FM

  • Sunday, May 14, at 7 a.m.

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You may also like:

From Abuse to Abundance with Dr. Jamila Battle (YOUR HEALTH Radio April 2017)

Domestic Violence & Children with Dr. Megan Bair-Merritt (YOUR HEALTH Radio January 2014)

Domestic Violence with Kit Gruelle (YOUR HEALTH Radio June 2010)

Re-Air: Talking to Patients About Cancer with Dr. Rachel Freedman

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Rachel Freedman, Oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute about Talking to Patients About Cancer.

Please tune in! The show will air:Freedman

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, September 26th at 6 p.m.
• Sunday, September 27th at 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.
• Monday, September 28th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.

WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, September 26th at 3 p.m.

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, September 27th at 7 a.m.

Listen to the show!
Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-09:45) Loneliness and length of life, Exercise as we age, Brain power peaking at different ages, Over treating low risk Atrial Fibrillation
  • Conversations with Dr. Rachel Freedman about Talking to Patients About Cancer (min 09:45-29:30)
  • House Calls (min 29:30-38:21) Stressed in college, Burning sensation in fingers, Kudos from a viewer, Financial costs of going to the doctor

Related links
Research that Matters

Conversations with Dr. Rachel Freedman

House Calls

Talking to Patients About Cancer with Dr. Rachel Freedman

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FreedmanThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Rachel Freedman, Oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute about Talking to Patients About Cancer.

Please tune in! The show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, May 2nd at 9 a.m.
• Sunday, May 3rd at 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
• Monday, May 4th at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m.
WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, May 2nd at 3 p.m.
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7 FM
• Sunday, May 3rd at 7 a.m.

Listen to the show!
Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-09:45) Loneliness and length of life, Exercise as we age, Brain power peaking at different ages, Over treating low risk Atrial Fibrillation
  • Conversations with Dr. Rachel Freedman about Talking to Patients About Cancer (min 09:45-29:30)
  • House Calls (min 29:30-38:21) Stressed in college, Burning sensation in fingers, Kudos from a viewer, Financial costs of going to the doctor

Related links
Research that Matters

Conversations with Dr. Rachel Freedman

House Calls

Being a Family Physician in the 21st Century with Dr. Reid Blackwelder

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Blackwelder PhotoThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Reid Blackwelder, Past President of the American Academy of Family Physicians about Being a Family Physician in the 21st Century.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, February 7th at 9am
• Sunday, February 8th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, February 9th at 6pm and 10pm
WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, February 7th at 3pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, February 8th at 7am

Listen to the Show:
Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-9:30) Second-Hand Smoke & Hospital Admissions, Methods for Swallowing Pills, Diabetes, Obesity & Weight Loss, and Obesity Shortening Life Expectancy
  • Conversations with Dr. Reid Blackwelder (min 9:30-30:00)
  • House Calls (min 30-40) Adoption & Diabetes, Mitro Valve Prolapse & Dental Procedures, Sleep Deprivation, and Testosterone & Heart Attacks

 

You may also be interested in:

Life Behind the Stethoscope—Experiences as a Family Physician (YOUR HEALTH Radio July 2018)

Journeys of a Family Medicine Physician with Dr. Evan Ashkin (YOUR HEALTH Radio October 2011)

Healthy Youth and Risky Behavior with Dr. Hope White and Sherry Lehman

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White and Lehman photoThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be joined by Dr. Hope White (left), Data Consultant, and Sherry Lehman (right), HIV Consultant for North Carolina Healthy Schools to talk about Healthy Youth and Risky Behavior.
 
 
 

Please tune in! This show will air:

WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, October 25th at 9am
• Sunday, October 26th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, October 27th at 6pm and 10pm

WBNE 103.7 FM
• Saturday, October 25th at 3pm

KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, October 26th at 7am

Listen to the Show!

Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository

Show Topics:

  • Research that Matters (min 0-9:30) Living Longer, Hepatitis C, Which Jobs May be Worse for your Heart, Eating Organic Food
  • Conversations with Dr. Hope White and Sherry Lehman about Healthy Youth and Risky Behavior (min 9:30-30:30)
  • House Calls (min 30:30-40) Trouble with Depression, Ankle Sprains, Diabetic Shoes, Medicinal Marijuana

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Hospice Care: Comfort & Compassion with Libby Hart

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This weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Libby Hart, RN, Health Educator at UNC Hospice, about Hospice Care: Comfort & Compassion.

Please tune in! This show will air:
WCHL 97.9FM
• Saturday, January 11th at 9am
• Sunday, January 12th at 9am and 5pm
• Monday, January 13th at 6pm and 10pm
KKAG Retro Radio 88.7FM
• Sunday, January 12th at 7am

Listen to the Show!
Download the episode from the Carolina Digital Repository
 

Additional Commentary:

This wonderful interview with Libby Hart, RN nurse educator, helps educate us about hospice care. I appreciated Dr. Hart’s explanation about hospice as an active team-based model of care that can help patients and families achieve comfort in the last months of their lives. The compassionate discussion of goals of care and helping families and patients negotiate even simple acts such as eating a meal is invaluable and their fears over taking pain medicines like morphine. The discussion of patient and family fears about the double effects of morphine as they fear it may shorten patients’ lives in addition to controlling pain is particularly salient given the increasing use of these medicines in daily life. Lastly, while many people may feel uncomfortable about volunteering to help people in the last months of their life but it may be as quick as running errands for the patients or their families.

I had hoped there might be more discussion about the larger field of palliative care which can occur anywhere throughout our lives and is not limited to the last stages of life, but it appears this was beyond the scope of the interview. I would encourage that we as a society begin to move beyond the black-and-white line of “6 months or less to live” or not, into a realm where comfort can go hand in hand with routine medical care.

Perhaps the most important part of this interview is the discussion of prognosis and how even physicians struggle with assessing and communicating limited prognosis to patients while maintaining hope. A wonderful article in the New York Times by Dr. Paul Kalanithi notes this prognostic divide. It is our attempts to understand how long we have left, and gain meaning in our lives that is perhaps the most challenging part of hospice. This interview raised many important points for us to consider as patients, family members, and potential volunteers.

The President, Obamacare, and Your Health: Thoughts of a Family Medicine Leader with Dr. Sam Weir

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Sam WeirThis weekend on YOUR HEALTH® Adam & Cristy will be talking with Dr. Sam Weir, Associate Professor of UNC Family Medicine , about The President, Obamacare, and Your Health: Thoughts of a Family Medicine Leader.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Additional Commentary: The Affordable Care Act and Your Health

Sherry HayThe consequences of being uninsured are paramount. Individuals often enter care late, and care is not coordinated.  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a blueprint for reforming our healthcare system, the biggest in decades. The law is extensive in breadth and scope, e.g. expanding preventive services available to individuals covered by Medicare, offering individuals financial assistance to make healthcare more affordable through the insurance marketplaces, to changing how services are reimbursed. These changes align with the three key issues that face our healthcare system today as outlined by Dr. Sam Weir in his recent interview on Your Health Radio. Those issues, as he states, include access, quality, and cost of healthcare.

It is clear to me that many of the 1.5 million uninsured people in North Carolina need help in understanding the ACA and what the insurance marketplace could mean for them. I have been participating in a variety of community events over the past six months to answer questions about the ACA and then to help people navigate the new marketplace.  For example, here at UNC Family Medicine, we identified our uninsured households sending them information about the ACA as well as offering them assistance through trained counselors on our staff.  People have come with earnest questions and hope of gaining insurance, many for the very first time.  We have had success in a variety of ways from successfully helping people chose a plan, to answering questions about Medicare, to enrolling people into Medicaid.

At the center of it all, Dr. Weir notes that these changes can establish for people a relationship with a primary care team at a patient centered medical home. I couldn’t agree more and believe all Americans deserve access to high quality, low cost healthcare.  I feel better knowing we have this blueprint for change, and leaders like Dr. Weir who not only know the issues but are apart of the solutions.

Sherry Hay, MPA, is the Director of Community Health Initiatives and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Paul Grundy and the Patient Centered Medical Home (YOUR HEALTH Radio July 2010)

Re-Airing a Calm Brain with Dr. Gayatri Devi

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Dr. Gayatri DeviWe’re re-airing one of our favorite shows this weekend on YOUR HEALTH®. Tune in to hear Adam

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

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How Much is too Much Sitting?

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The Archives of Internal Medicine published a study based in Australia looking at people who spent more than 11 hours a day sitting (watching TV, sitting at a desk, etc). They found that people who spent all those hours sitting were more likely to die of any cause during a 3-year period, compared to people with more active lives. 

Researchers studied 220,000 people in Australia over a three-year period. After three years, they discovered a little over 5,000 of those had died.

Researchers found that those who were sitting for at least 11 hours a day, were 40% more likely to die during the study than the people who sat less than 4 hours a day.  Researchers also found sitting showed affects on cholesterol as well.

One important thing to point out is it didn’t really matter whether these people were normal weight or overweight, if they spent time working out, healthy or had other sicknesses.  This sedentary lifestyle, with long periods of sitting, was truly damaging.

The take-home message  here is to take time NOW and reflect how long you sit during the day and find ways to be more active.