Episodes
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Conversation with Adele Gill – Keeping the Christmas Spirit Alive
I am honored to join Adele Gill on The Inspiration Cafe podcast to talk about the Christmas spirit and how to keep it alive all year long. Adele M. Gill is a wife, mother, retired RN, certified Chaplain, blogger and host of ‘The Inspiration Café Podcast. She is the author of 6 books, and a...
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Sepsis Awareness with Maria Papalia Meier and Kim Gilliam Steele
Know the signs of sepsis!
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Doug Wojcieszak of Sorry Works! Speaks Up
Doug Wojcieszak is a disclosure training consultant who created Sorry Works! and has trained thousands of healthcare, insurance, and legal professionals. Wojcieszak is a sought-after speaker and trainer, and Sorry Works! content (books, booklets, on-line learning, etc) has become the “go to”...
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Enchanted Makeovers – we are helping women and children in long-term shelters
Do you want to support this program? You can donate to our pillowcase project and we will make and send handmade one of a kind pillowcases to Enchanted Makeovers. We name you as the donor. You get the tax deduction. Details announced this weekend!
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Working from Home Privacy Issues, Mammogram Bullies, and Predatory Hospital Billing
With everyone working from home, what happens to your private information? Is your file sitting on someones dining room table, on their bed, on top of the dryer? Do their children and their friends have access to your private information? Can employees really change diapers, school their…
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Thomas H. Dahlborg Sr. New Book From Heart to Head and Back Again
THOMAS H. DAHLBORG, Sr. With well over thirty-five years of extensive healthcare leadership experience, Tom is a voice for relationship centered and compassionate care, servant leadership and quality and systems improvement. An author, leader and advisor, he is also an internationally recognized...
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Healthcare Culture, Employee Suicide, and End of Life Planning
Todays guest is a nurse who shares a healthcare setting that allowed a culture that ultimately caused her husband, another healthcare provider, to commit suicide. She also talks about the importance of end of life planning. As an end of life doula, she has many wise tips to share.
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Chronic Pain
Guest Anya Grace, a contributing author to our newly release BEST SELLER – Highway to Heart, Humor, and Honesty in Healthcare, talks about living with chronic pain. She offers usable advice for both patients and providers.
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Not a Patient but a Consumer – Not a Visitor but an Advocate
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are restricting "visitors". A visit is a casual and short event. So don't call me a visitor – I'm an advocate for my loved one. Every patient/consumer needs someone to advocate for them 24/7. What is happening behind closed doors? Today we share some real...
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Psychological Abuse with Dr. Jeannita Bussle
Today's guest Jeannita Bussle shares her new book SORROW TO SHERO. This powerful memoir is a must read for anyone in need of hope. Although “Sorrow to Shero” shines a light on psychological abuse and the importance of mental health, it is also a vivid reminder that God always makes a way out of…
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Surgical Staplers Misfire, Malformed, and FDA Secret Databases and Corruption
Surgical Stapler Hazards – FDA Corruption? Secret databases of device injuries never shared with public or medical professionals? Shocking but business as usual. Tune in for an expose!
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How to Go From Broken to Blest
After weeks of talking about the Coronavirus, today we focus on healing both mentally and spiritually. To listen to Adele's 2018 interview – From Broken to Blest VISIT ADELE'S WEBSITE 2020 INTERVIEW – HOW TO GO FROM BROKEN TO BLEST Correction – When Adele spoke about being on a respirator, she…
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The Patient Experience From Pediatric to Geriatric
Dr. Nicole Rochester shares her experience going from a pediatrician to a patient advocate for older clients. What are the similarities? What are the differences. Tune in for a peek from the other side of the stethescope.
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Campaign Zero Deaths Due to Medical Harm
400,000 patients each year lose their lives due to cracks in our healthcare system. With more and more people entering the hospital due to the coronavirus, it is imperative to know the risks. Patient advocate, Karen Curtiss of Campaign Zero shares her views on patient safety. Get a copy of the...
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Attacked By a Primary Care Physician
The bad and good are revealed today as Pat shares two real doctor visits. A primary care physician gone wild causes a search for a new physician that finally leads to a positive patient experience. You'll shake your head!
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Lee Varner – Highway to Heart, Humor, and Honesty in Healthcare Interview
The following audio interview will be transcribed to text to create a chapter in the upcoming charity/anthology titled HIGHWAY TO HEART, HUMOR, and HONESTY in HEALTHCARE. Available late Spring/early Summer 2020. VISIT the book page Lee Varner is the past Director of EMS services at the Center for...
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Dr. Doug Finefrock – Highway to Heart, Humor, and Honesty in Healthcare Interview
The following audio interview will be transcribed to text to create a chapter in the upcoming charity/anthology titled HIGHWAY TO HEART, HUMOR, and HONESTY in HEALTHCARE. Available late Spring/early Summer 2020. VISIT the book page Dr. Doug Finefrock, an Emergency Medicine (EM) physician, has...
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A Look Back at Some Relevant Patient Safety Issues
As I continue to move forward within the patient safety space – I often look back at the decade I spent with my mom during her healthcare and hospital journey. As her daily advocate, I witnessed some encounters that read like fiction. Today as I recall events, I realize that not much has changed.…
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Dr. Peter Pronovost Returns to Speak Up for Patients & Providers
Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD Chief Clinical Transformation Officer, University Hospitals Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine and School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, is a world-renowned patient safety champion,...
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Thomas Dahlborg – Highway to Heart, Humor, and Honesty in Healthcare Interview
The following audio interview will be transcribed to text to create the upcoming charity/anthology titled HIGHWAY TO HEART, HUMOR, and HONESTY in HEALTHCARE. Available late Spring/early Summer 2020. VISIT the book page Thomas Dahlborg began his career within the walls of a community hospital as a...
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Medication Reconciliation, De-prescribing, Polypharmacy, and a True Story
What happens when an inappropriately prescribed drug follows you from the emergency room, to the hospital, to rehab, and back home? Today's guest, Mary Brennan Taylor has the answer. She tells her mom's story as a cautionary tale to help you realize the dangerous outcomes of medication errors....
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A Very Impatient Patient Experience
I was about to lose my mind – Crepe Erase commercials, medical malpractice commercials … while waiting with my mom for a thoracentesis procedure. Bait and switch doctors, no available charts, inept physician, no name nurse, a lying nurse … It's all here and now!
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Scrubs in Public and Fake Fingernails
Do you feel just a bit concerned when you see someone wearing scrubs in the grocery store or in a restaurant? Today we share some facts about cross contamination. And what about healthcare providers and long, bedazzled artificial fingernails? How safe a practice is that? Tune in to find out.
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More Cross Contamination Opportunities
A listener shares her phobias after listening to the show for years. Do you wash your can lids prior to opening them? Do you enjoy lemon slices in your restaurant water? Today's episode will get you to think!
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Mis/Un Diagnosed
Fourteen doctors and still no correct diagnosis? Is this a joke? Today’s guest shares her very real and journey of how a simple back problem became a crippling event.
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Wash Your Hands!
Hand hygiene is the most important component in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections. Today’s guest talks about how to become empowered to ask your healthcare providers to wash their hands prior to touching you. Not always an easy task – but when you understand the consequences –…
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Patient Safety Encounters
Dr. Lucien Leape, the father of the patient safety movement answers listener's email questions.
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Radiated Hospitals
Radiated Hospitals – How Safe Are They? How safe is your hospital? Are there cell towers on or near the vicinity? Cell antenna’s all over the roof and building? RFID chips, wireless computers? Guest, Cindy Sage an expert from the Bioinitiative Group answers listener’s questions about the silent…
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Mind Blowing Patient Experiences
Bad patient experiences. No – the patient isn’t bad – but the experiences sure are! Pat looks back at some mind-blowing events that happened during some of her mom’s healthcare encounters. You’ll shake your head and be reminded of some hazards that could find you too.
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Antibiotics – Are They Safe?
Pat shares a personal harm suffered due to taking the antibiotic called Cipro. And later in the show a guest arrives to add more science and facts behind the dangers of a certain class of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolones. Before your pop your next pill – tune in.
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Surgery and Medication Errors
Did you know that one out of every two surgeries involves a medication error? Pat shares new findings and offers solutions. Guest, Morgan Gleason – a teenager with a rare disease shares how her health crisis allowed her to become a patient experience advocate and speaker.
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Dirty Surgery
Dirty surgical instruments? No such thing. Hospitals have sterile processing rules – they have strict cleaning processes. Right? Today we blow the gunk out of the scopes and share all. You don't want to miss it.
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More Infection Prevention Please
Pat's special guest, the infection control coordinator at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital, answers your most pressing infection prevention questions.
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Talking Dirty With a Microbiologist
People are talking dirty and don't even know it. World famous microbiologist Dr. Chuck Gerba joins Pat to talk about bacteria found on frequently used items – such as cell phones. Plus Pat unveils Dirty Talk – an all natural disinfectant specifically designed for cell phones and other mobile...
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Doctors Addicted to Drugs
Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a Harvard-trained physician candidly shares his opiate addiction and the prevalence of addiction in the medical community.
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Technology and Bacteria – Why the Heck Not?
Pat recounts a recent trio of healthcare encounters that required the mindless spread of bacteria and infection via self check-in monitors. When asked why these ‘infection vectors' (that force innocent patients to expose themselves to public bacteria) are preferable – the hospital answered "Why…
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Don't Dust Your Undies
Have you had your sprinkle today? Still dousing with baby powder? Tune in before you freshen your undies. Think ovarian cancer. And what about those Fitbits? What are they doing to your health? Today Pat shakes off the dust and smashes those electronic devices to bits.
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Bewildered or Be Wild? The Patient Experience
Pat shares a week's worth of bewildering healthcare experiences including a visit to a veterinarian. Every institution and facility is all abuzz with the words ‘patient experience' but when will things improve? As consumers – instead of leaving our healthcare encounters annoyed and bewildered –...
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Schools, WiFi & Cell Towers – Sorry Kids!
Why are we frying our children with WiFi in schools? Today Pat shares one mother's crusade to stop the madness.
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Polio Vaccine – Busted!
Today we inject the truth into the perpetrated myths surrounding the polio vaccine. Sorry – it's going to hurt.
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Ticks! They're Coming For You
Pat shares a recent encounter with a tick. After the initial freak-out, she now shares the very real and growing threat of tick bites. Find out how to stay out of their way and what to do if you become prey to their pinching jaws.
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Deet – Bad for Bugs & Bad for You
Pat shares the facts about the main ingredient in most bug sprays. Deet – is it safe? Are there any alternatives? Pat has a plant-based essential oil solution for you to try. Visit http://www.zapnzen.com
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Fluoride Alert
What's in your drinking water? Did you consent to the addition of fluoride? Tune in to find out why ‘Mrs. Clutterbuck thinks this is a bad idea."
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Patient Safety Alerts
Drug induced dementia, BIG Pharmacy, doctors and electronic medical records used to sway prescription selections? Oh my – this can't be. Tune in and find out how to stay safe during any healthcare or hospital experience
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Irresponsible – Unsafe Surgical Practices
Mark S. Davis, M.D. an operating room safety consultant specializing in reducing sharps injuries and blood exposures joins the show to expose how unsafe surgical practices cause patient harm.
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Forest Bathing for Health While We Still Have Trees
Taking a walk in the woods for relaxation or exercise may not seem like a therapy, but being in a forest can improve your mental and physical health in very unexpected ways. Pat shares the good, the bad and the ugly that just might put an end to forests altogether.
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The Pet Food Industry Rides the Gravy Train
Pat shares the most recent shocking news about how pentobarbital – the barbiturate used to euthanize animals was recently discovered in Gravy Train Dog Food made by Big Heart Pet Brands owned by Smuckers. Our pets have no voice and they have no choice. But we do. Let's speak up with our wallets....
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Brain Cancer & Cell Phones?
Ellie Marks is the president and founder of the California Brain Tumor Association. In 2008, her husband was diagnosed with a malignant glioma, which doctors attributed to his 20 years of cell phone use. Marks testified to Congress on the health risks of cell phones and has appeared on the Dr. Oz...
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Do You Have Eyelash Mites? Blepharitis?
Today Pat is itching to share a little known microscopic fact. It's mite-y prevalent among people over the age of 18 – so tune in and find out how you can eliminate this party on your face. Help for blepharitis and eye mites – 4 integrated treatment and management solutions for itching, irritated...
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Leaky Mattresses, Robo Bees and More
Cross contamination in hospitals and nursing homes from leaky mattresses? Yes and you'll find out more right now. And what's up with the bee population and why should you care? Robo Bees and more so tune in.