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Second Opinion LIVE!

by ReachMD

Whether you're a dermatologist in Seattle, a family practitioner in New Mexico, or a trauma surgeon in New York City, the issues in health care today just can't wait. That's why you turn to ReachMD for Second Opinion Live: we're here to give you a chance to be heard.Join two of our seasoned physician hosts, Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg, for the next Second Opinion Live, airing on ReachMD.Do you have a topic suggestion or a story idea? Share them with us at [email protected].

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  1. Alzheimer's Disease and the Key to Finding Better Treatments

    Guest: Shellie Williams, MD Guest: Reed Tuckson, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Currently more than 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, a number that could triple by 2050 unless advances are made in early detection, treatments and prevention. Second...

  2. Gifts From the Poor: Practicing in the Poorest Parts of the World

    Guest: Glenn Geelhoed, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Dr. Glenn Geelhoed is a marathoner, photographer, and big game hunter, who has been on over 200 international medical missions to developing countries, and helped broker peace between warring Sudanese tribes. He talks...

  3. View From the Other Side: The Doctor as Patient

    Guest: Alan Roberts, MD Guest: James Levine, MD, PhD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Dr. Matt Birnholz hosts this program solo, as his co-host, Dr. Michael Greenberg, recovers from knee surgery. This week, Dr. Birnholz considers what the physician learns when he finds himself…

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  4. In the Pink? Examining Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns

    Guest: Gayle Sulik, PhD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Pink ribbon campaigns have been highly successful in rallying recognition and funding around breast cancer. But our guest thinks the cheerful image of such campaigns whitewashes realities of the disease, both in terms of...

  5. Follow-Up on Japan: Assessing Radiation and Mental Health Threats

    Guest: Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD Guest: John D. Boice, ScD Guest: Tsuyoshi Akiyama, MD, PhD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD This rebroadcast of the March 30th program continues analysis of the health issues in Japan following that country’s magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and...

  6. Assessing the Disasters in Japan

    Guest: John Howe, MD Guest: Susan Briggs, MD, MPH Guest: Makoto Iwahara, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD This program was originally broadcast live on March 16, 2011, and focuses on putting into context the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent ever-changing...

  7. Facts, Myths, and Computer Overlords

    Guest: Sanjiv Chopra, MD, FACP Guest: Herbert Chase, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg talk to Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, faculty dean of continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the book Doctor Chopra...

  8. The Fine Art of Extraction & Other Remarkable Undertakings

    Guest: Mary Cappello, PhD Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Second Opinion Live looks at the future of robotics in medicine, with Dr. Joseph Kim; the naming of famous murmurs; and the pioneering work of endoscopist Dr. Chevalier Jackson, the subject of...

  9. Anniversary Report From Haiti & an Alzheimer's Milestone

    Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Anthony Alessi, MD Guest: Robert J. Egge Dr. Anthony Alessi reports from Haiti, making his fifth trip there to mark the one-year anniversary of the magnitude 7 earthquake that precipitated a massive humanitarian and health crisis in that already-beleagured country....

  10. New Frontiers in Regenerative Medicine

    Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Anthony Atala, MD This week's guest is Dr. Anthony Atala, who oversees the world's largest lab devoted to bioengineering body parts, from inkjet-printed hearts to tiny livers, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He...

  11. Ring Out the False and Ring in the True: Our Last Episode of 2010

    Guest: Everett Winslow Lovrien, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD This week, hosts Drs. Matt Birnholz and Michael Greenberg wrap up 2010 with a look at the year's most notable research; as well as some notably retracted research, with Jef Akst of The Scientist; and talk with...

  12. Ah-Choo! Second Opinion Gets Up Close to the Common Cold

    Guest: Jennifer Ackerman Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD On this week's program, hosts Dr. Matthew Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg welcome Jennifer Ackerman, author of Ah-Choo! The Uncommon Life of the Common Cold, to talk about the history of what we know about this most...

  13. The Next Big Thing in Continuing Medical Education?

    Guest: Frank Britt Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Our guest is Frank Britt, president and CEO of medical education provider Pri-Med, with us to talk about Pri-Med's new Open Network initiative, designed to bring new models for delivering education to the practicing clinician....

  14. The Mütter Museum & Other Spine-Tingling Topics in Medicine

    Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Anna Dhody, MFS Hosts Drs. Matt Birnholz and Michael Greenberg get into the Halloween spirit, with an interview with Anna Dhody, curator of the often macabre, always educational, Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia....

  15. Weird Science: A Conversation with the Father of the Ig-Nobel Prize

    Guest: Marc Abrahams Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this re-broadcast of the October 13th live show, we’ve invited Marc Abrahams, the editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and the mastermind behind the annual Ig-Nobel Prize, for science that makes people laugh, then...

  16. Radio on the Internet: Second Opinion Goes to a Virtual Oncology Conference

    Guest: Judith Karp, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this show, Drs Birnholz and Greenberg talk Dr. Judith Karp, an authority on molecular mechanisms of leukemia and lymphoma, from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and chair of the Oncology Care Live virtual...

  17. Second Opinion Goes Back to Med School

    Guest: Robert M. Golub, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Autumn is upon us in the medical community, and hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg turn their attention to medical education. They talk with Dr. Robert Golub, senior editor of JAMA, about the path from...

  18. Five Years Later: Katrina's Mental Health Impact

    Guest: Rebecca Thomley, PhD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this rebroadcast of the September 1st show, Dr. Greenberg interviews Rebecca Thomley about the mental health situtation in New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Thomley runs a nonprofit relief...

  19. The Physician/Journalist In a Disaster: Ethics and Objectivity

    Guest: Sanjay Gupta, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, discusses the challenges in balancing the roles of physician and journalist, with host Dr. Matt Birnholz. Do we need ethical guidelines? And are the rules different in…

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  20. Haiti’s Transition From Acute Crisis to Quiet Crisis

    Guest: John Howe, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Dr. John P. Howe, president and CEO of Project HOPE, gives hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg an update on Project HOPE's current efforts in Haiti and how you can still help. Plus: they report on the the…

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  21. The Physician to the President

    Guest: Connie Mariano, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this rebroadcast of the July 21st show, our hosts talk to former presidential physician Dr. Connie Mariano, who made house calls to the White House for 9 years (and on Air Force One and across the globe). Her new…

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  22. Haiti Six Months Later: Assessing the Aftermath

    Guest: Anthony Alessi, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this show, our hosts get an update from ReachMD host Dr. Anthony Alessi, from Haiti, six months after the earthquake. And, they question Dr. Andrew Wakefield, widely-known for his controversial and discredited…

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  23. Letters to a Young Doctor

    Guest: Ram Gordon, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this rebroadcast of the Wednesday, June 9th show, your hosts talk with Dr. Ram Gordon, who published an article recently on the remarkable relationship from early in his career that started with a letter from a patient....

  24. The Physician Without an OFF-Button

    Guest: Hugh Montgomery, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this rebroadcast of the 5/24 show, guest Dr. Hugh Montgomery, ultra-marathoner, sky-diver, mountaineer, writer, world-record holder, and professor of intensive care medicine who discovered a gene for fitness, slows...

  25. Career Day: Assessing Your Life and Practice in the Clinical Profession

    Guest: Neil Baum, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matt Birnholz welcome this week's guests to talk about your practice and career: Dr. Neil Baum, author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically and Tim…

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  26. World Wide Medicine: Globetrotting and Crowdsourcing

    Guest: Mark Pendergrast Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Hosts Drs. Michael Greenberg and Matt Birnholz interview Mark Pendergrast, author of the new book Inside the Outbreaks: the Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The Second Opinion Live hosts also...

  27. A Doctor's Right to Help Patients Die

    Guest: Gerald Metz, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Second Opinion Live speaks with the new medical director of the Final Exit Network, Dr. Gerald Metz. Dr. Metz has assumed this role as the former medical director has temporarily stepped aside pending the outcome of legal...

  28. Curiouser and Curiouser: Origins of Medicine's Myths and Mysteries

    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Sherry Seethaler, PhD Hosts Drs. Michael Greenberg and Matt Birnholz are joined by guest Dr. Sherry Seethaler, author of the recently published book Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products and…

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  29. What Are the Odds? The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything We Do

    Guest: Kaiser Fung Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD In this rebroadcast of the March 17th show, your hosts talk to Kaiser Fung, author of the book Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probability and Statistics on Everything You Do, about controversies in PSA...

  30. Report From Capitol Hill with AMA Board Chair Dr. Rebecca Patchin

    Guest: Rebecca Patchin, MD Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Dr. Rebecca Patchin, American Medical Association board chair, gives the view from Capitol Hill after several days of testifying and speaking with legislators about the various needs of...

  31. Searching for a Cure for Cancer: James Watson, Discoverer of DNA

    Guest: James Watson Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Host Dr. Matt Birnholz talks with Dr. James Watson, winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the structure of DNA. They discuss Dr. Watson's current and most pressing interest in cancer...

  32. Update From Haiti: The Next Phase of the Medical Response

    Guest: Anthony Alessi, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Lewis Zirkle, MD Guest: Daniel Fitzgerald, MD Several weeks after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, we revisit the medical response with three physicians, all with different specialties and all with a deep connection to Haiti. Hosts...

  33. Is 'Alternative' Medicine Effective?

    Guest: Josephine Briggs, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Joining our hosts this week is Dr. Josephine P. Brigggs, director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Dr. Briggs brings her focus on translational research to the position. On the…

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  34. Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders

    Guest: Thomas Krueger, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD It is a long way from the tranquil hills of Tennessee to the war-torn streets of Nigeria, Darfur or Sri Lanka, but that path is the one chosen by surgeon Dr. Thomas Krueger. Dr. Krueger served overseas on four missions...

  35. Down-To-Earth Space Medicine with Astronaut Dr. Michael Barratt

    Guest: Michael Barratt, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Listen as Second Opinion Live speaks with guest Dr. Michael Barratt — physician, astronaut, and the man who literally wrote the book on space medicine. Dr. Barratt returned to Earth in October, 2009, after 200 days on...

  36. The Art of Diagnosis: Embracing the Physician Detective Role

    Guest: Lisa Sanders, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Dr. Lisa Sanders writes the monthly "Diagnosis" column for the New York Times Magazine, which became the inspiration for the television show "House, M.D." But her first love is still teaching about clinical reasoning and...

  37. Feeling Financial Pressure? How Your Practice Can Adjust

    Guest: Karen Zupko Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Medical practices across the country are dealing with financial pressures, the likes of which we haven't seen before. It has put a premium on our ability to maximize efficiency while still maintaining the standard of patient...

  38. Are Out-of-State Provider Licensing Laws Due for a Change?

    Guest: Stan Brock Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD The need for quality medical care outstrips the capacity of local providers in many cities and towns across the United States. Remote Area Medical (RAM) is one organization working to meet this demand, recruiting volunteers in...

  39. Eschewing the Flu: H1N1 and Seasonal Influenza

    Guest: Norman Edelman, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD We are moving closer to the height of what many feel will be an extraordinarily busy flu season, with H1N1 and the seasonal flu both central parts of the discussion. We don't know exactly how serious H1N1 will be, but…

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  40. Can You Parlay Your Clinical Skills into a Non-Clinical Career?

    Guest: Steven Babitsky, JD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Physicians of all ages and stages in their careers often look for a second occupation to augment their clinical and research backgrounds; others delve into that second career full-time after they are finished…

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  41. After Katrina: Clarifying Triage Rules, Resolving Moral Issues

    Guest: Sheri Fink, MD, PhD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD It has been several years since Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc up and down the U.S. Gulf Coast, but the storm continues to leave a nasty legacy in its wake. As the levees broke and the city of New Orleans descended…

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  42. Do Your Assumptions Interfere With the Care You Provide?

    Guest: Steven Feldman, MD, PhD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD We may not understand why a patient has stopped taking their medication, or why a colleague ordered a test that we might have thought was not needed. In these and other similar situations, frequently our first...

  43. Are Fat, Sugar and Salt Holding Our Health Hostage?

    Guest: David A. Kessler, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD We know that the basic ingredients in our food have played a major role in the progression of our country's obesity epidemic -- it's not all about our genetics and our sedentary lifestyle. Yet, armed with this...

  44. Encouraging Physician Involvement in Health Care Reform

    Guest: Rep. Peter Roskam, (R-IL) Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD It seems every day there is a new batch of developments in the political tussle over health care reform. Many members of the medical community are frustrated at the tenor of the debate in Washington, and…

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  45. Do Our Professional Organizations Represent Our Interests?

    Guest: Rahul Parikh, MD Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Host: Michael Greenberg, MD President Obama recently gave a speech at the annual meeting for the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago. The speech thrust the AMA squarely into the national spotlight as an organization that represents...

  46. Physician Advocates for Single-Payer Health System Reform

    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD and Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Carol Paris, MD We've heard a lot about health system reform in recent months. One possible mode of health care reform is the single-payer approach, but advocates of single-payer believe their principles have not received fair consideration...

  47. Conscientious Objection: Morality and Religion in Medicine

    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD and Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Julie Cantor, MD, JD Friends and family of Dr. George Tiller recently laid the prominent abortion physician to rest, after he was shot and killed while serving as usher during a Sunday church service in Wichita, Kansas. Authorities have...

  48. Inching Closer to Healthcare Reform: Driving Down Costs

    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD and Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: J. James Rohack, MD News out of Washington, DC, last week has many sectors of health care abuzz about the possibility of meaningful reforms to our system: President Barack Obama announced the initial framework of a commitment from six of the...

  49. What Physicians Need to Know About H1N1 Influenza

    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD and Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Joan Nichols, PhD Events surrounding the spread of H1N1 influenza virus have dominated the news over the course of the last few weeks. We are all receiving calls from patients worried that they may have symptoms, while others are concerned...

  50. Competing Views on Alternative Medicine

    Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Alternative, or non-traditional medicine: where does it really stand in the minds and practices of today's doctors? Would you use it, would you refer to it? Dr. Michael Greenberg interviews medical practitioners, voicing their opinion on this controversial topic.

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Whether you're a dermatologist in Seattle, a family practitioner in New Mexico, or a trauma surgeon in New York City, the issues in health care today just can't wait. That's why you turn to ReachMD for Second Opinion Live: we're here to give you a chance to be heard.Join two of our seasoned physician hosts, Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg, for the next Second Opinion Live, airing on ReachMD.Do you have a topic suggestion or a story idea? Share them with us at [email protected].

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