Radio Rounds

This episode features Dr. Martin Samuels, chairman of the department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. A leading authority on the relationships between neurology and general medicine and one of the foremost medical educators in the country, Dr. Samuels has also hosted a number of programs on Reach MD. This week we discuss what we can do as physicians to avoid making the cognitive mistakes that lead to diagnostic errors and we close our series with thoughts on medicine as a profession.

This episode features Dr. Martin Samuels, chairman of the department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. A leading authority on the relationships between neurology and general medicine and one of the foremost medical educators in the country, Dr. Samuels has also hosted a number of programs on Reach MD. This week we discuss the cognitive mechanisms that lead to errors in diagnosis. Our guest Dr. Samuels will use examples from his own career!

This episode features Dr. Martin Samuels, chairman of the department of Neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, and Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. A leading authority on the relationships between neurology and general medicine and one of the foremost medical educators in the country, Dr. Samuels has also hosted a number of programs on Reach MD. This week, Dr. Samuels discusses the importance of errors in medicine.

Dr. Stuart Mushlin is a practicing internist and primary care physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA, where he serves as an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. He is also the author of the book Decision Making in Medicine: An Algorithmic Approach. Today, Radio Rounds host and Boston Medical Center internal medicine resident Lakshman Swamy asks Dr. Mushlin about the Patient Centered Medical Home and the future of American primary care.

This episode of Radio Rounds features another piece from Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Radio Rounds Executive Producer, Yojan Patel, will be reading Dr. Jordan Grumet's "Broken," a first person narrative describing Dr. Grumet's experience as a medical student during his OB/Gyn rotation.

The results of a recent nationwide survey conducted by the AMA Insurance Agency indicate that nearly half of American physicians under 50 feel underprepared for their financial future, and nearly three quarters of all American physicians do not have enough money saved to ensure a healthy retirement. In this episode of Radio Rounds, host John Corker sits down with Dr. Shamie Das, co-founder of Radio Rounds and a current Emergency Medicine resident at Emory University Hospital, to discuss young physicians' most pressing concerns about their financial futures. John also speaks with AMA Insurance President Chris Burke about the context and implications of his survey's concerning results, as well as his advice on how to get started early on the road to a better financial future. Finally, John catches up with Dr. Ann Wojtalik, a Pediatrician from Indianapolis IN, who offers her insight into one of the AMA Insurance survey's most interesting findings: that female physicians across the country feel wel

In this episode, Radio Rounds director John Corker sits down with Dr. Jeremy Lazarus. Dr. Lazarus is a private-practice psychiatrist from Denver who has spent the past year serving as President of the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. Lazarus shares his unique insight into the critical role that physicians must play in national health policy discussions, as well as the AMA's new strategic plan to improve health outcomes in Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, to accelerate change in medical education, and to improve physicians' satisfaction with their profession.

Dr. Jerry Avorn is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate the effectiveness of existing and new prescription drugs in relation to their risks and costs and to study how medications are used by physicians and patients. He also authored the book Powerful Medicines, describing the The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs, and he'll be discussing his views on the subject of pharmaceuticals in health care on Radio Rounds.

In this episode, Radio Rounds host Lakshman Swamy talks to Mitesh Patel, the co-founder of Docphin, a web-based service that helps physicians and students stay connected to medical literature. He talks about the importance of staying up to date in medicine, and how Docphin makes it easier. Dr. Patel has been a TEDMED expert panelist and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.

This week's episode of Radio Rounds celebrates Mothers' Day by speaking with Dr. Katherine Chretien, an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at the George Washington University Medical School, a mother of three children, and the founder of the group blog Mothers in Medicine. Dr. Chretien also serves as Internal Medicine Clerkship Director at George Washington and as Chief of the Hospitalist Section at the DC Veterans Affairs Hospital. In this interview, Dr. Chretien discusses the challenges and joys of being a Mother in Medicine -- emphasizing that you can, in fact, have it all...

On Monday April 21, approximately 36,000 runners participated in the historic 118th Boston Marathon, just over a year after the event on Boston’s Patriots Day was marred by a horrific terrorist attack. Shortly after the tragic bombing in 2013, which killed three people and wounded more than 260 others, Radio Rounds host and current resident physician Lakshman Swamy spoke with then-third year medical students Kristin Schwarz (Boston University) and Shaan Gandhi (Harvard University). Kristin and Shaan were at Boston Hospitals on their surgery rotations on the now-infamous Marathon Monday, and they had the opportunity to care for the victims from the tragic marathon bombing that took place on Monday, April 15, 2013. In this memorable special report, Kristin and Shaan share their experiences and describe how the incident impacted their growth as physicians.One year later, we respectfully re-share this episode on the anniversary of a day in Boston that has been remembered not for the attack itself but by the resil

In this episode, Radio Rounds Director Lakshman Swamy sits down with Dr. Vinny Arora of the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Indicating that she believes resident work hour restrictions are here to stay, Dr. Arora discusses the development of a “new professionalism” for residents as they are forced to hand over or receive patients – often in the middle of treatment – when it’s time for a shift-change. You can read more on this topic in her recent JAMA article "Professionalism in the Era of Duty Hours: Time for a Shift Change?"

In this episode, Radio Rounds host Lakshman Swamy catches up with Dr. Neel Shah, founder of Costs of Care. At the time, Dr. Shah was a chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. In August 2013, he joined the Harvard Medical School faculty as an Assistant Professor and member of the newly formed Ariadne Labs for Health Systems Innovation. Prior to starting residency, he created the not for profit organization Costs of Care, with the goal of empowering patients and their caregivers to deflate medical bills. His views on the role of physicians in healthcare spending have been quoted in the New England Journal of Medicine, New York Times, ABC Television, National Public Radio, and other major outlets.

Michael Hoaglin is a 4th year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. A 2007 Rotary International Amabssadorial Scholar and a 2010 Health Informamtion Management Systems Society Foundation Scholar. He has been a consultant for Accenture for electronic medical records and now currently an expert medical researcher for the nationally syndicated Dr. Oz show.

This episode of Radio Rounds features another piece from Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Radio Rounds host Imran Ali will be reading Justin Sanders' "Deja Vu," a first person narrative describing Dr. Sanders' experience in primary care in New York City.

Dr. Chris Lillis is a family practitioner in Fredericksberg, Virginia and an Executive Board member with Doctors for America. On the eve of the Presidential Inauguration, Dr. Lillis sat down with Radio Rounds Director John Corker to share his unique insights into Affordable Care Act implementation, Firearm Safety Legislation, and the vital role that physicians and physicians-in-training must play in the national debate on key health policy issues.

Dr. Richard Levin, MD is the president and CEO of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. He is concurrently a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at McGill and a Professor Emeritus of Medicine in the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology at New York University. Dr. Levin is an accomplished academic physician and scientist, and he shares his views on the importance of humanism in medicine.

Nathan Moore and Elizabeth Askin are medical students at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and authors of The Healthcare Handbook. They have studied the most significant aspects of the US health care system, including the roles of various practitioners, the pharma and device industries, medicare and medicaid, and of course health care reform and summarized what they learned into a short, unbiased, easy to read guide to American health care.

Thomas Moore, PhD is the author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul in Medicine: Healing Guidance for Patients, Families, and the People Who Care for Them. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts. We spoke to Dr. Moore about his definition of the "soul" in health care, what this means to a patient's healing process and what physicians-in-training can do to effectively integrate the art with the science of medicine.

On this episode of Radio Rounds, we are proud to announce the start of our relationship with Pulse Magazine: Voices From the Heart of Medicine. This publication, available at http://www.pulsemagazine.org/, publishes personal accounts of illness and healing with the goal of fostering humanism and encouraging advocacy. In the future, our Radio Rounds hosts will be reading the short stories on behalf of the authors. Today, we’re honored to feature a story read by the original author: Five Years Later, as read by Steve Lewis.