Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Bill Colby, JD Hear attorney Bill Colby, National Fellow with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and author of Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America, as he discusses what healthcare issues the Baby Boomers will face at the end-of-life.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Bill Colby, JD Hear Bill Colby, the lawyer who represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in the first right-to-die case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, and the author of Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America, as he offers his best advice regarding end-of-life care.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Geoffrey Walford, MD Hear Dr. Geoffrey A. Walford from Harvard Medical School as he discusses symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for male menopause.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Frederick Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH Dr. Frederick Burkle speaks about the indirect deaths that take place in a politically motivated disaster. The lack of data on the number of these lives makes them unseen, uncounted and unnoticed. As indicated by our guest, we must begin to consider that health is the most important foreign policy issue of our times.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Frederick Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH Dr. Frederick Burkle addresses our evaluation of what level of healthcare we would find in Iraq when we invaded in 2003, based on the previous 8-year war with Iran ('80-'88), the Gulf War of '91, and 12 years of sanctions (91-'03 ). The continuing war, the looting of all hospitals and clinics, the inefficiency of the CPA (Coalition for Provisional Authority) and now the Iraqi governmental woes have caused a huge vacuum for care. Civilians are indeed lucky if they get to AFTH (Air Force Hospital in Balad) where they can receive the best trauma care in the world, but then where do they go?

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Frederick Burkle, Jr., MD, MPH Dr. Frederick Burkle, first Head of the Ministry of Health, discusses what went wrong in fulfilling our responsibility to provide adequate and sustained healthcare to the Iraqi civilians throughout the American occupation. The interview raises the question of whether the Department of Defense should carry on the war while simultaneously becoming sole provider of humanitarian aid to the victims of this devastation.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Paul Donatio With the looming threat of Medicare and Medicaid payment cuts to physicians, fees from other sources become even more important to a physician's practice. The healthcare industry has traditionally instilled few consequences for patients who pay late or fail to cover uncollectable insurance balances, but times are changing. How can you re-train your patients to pay you on time?

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Paul Donatio How well does your medical practice collect fees both from your patients and from 3rd party payers? Can you do better and how much could you really gain by trying? Paul Donatio, of the Greenflag Profit Recovery System from Transworld, joins host Dr. Larry Kaskel to discuss the 'best practices' for payment collection in your medical practice.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Thomas Goetz, MA, MPH What happens to healthcare related scientific studies that don’t get published? Where does this data go? In this segment join host Dr. Larry Kaskel in an in depth discussion about dark scientific data with Deputy Editor of Wired Magazine, Thomas Goetz who recently wrote the article "Freeing the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments"

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Guest: Thomas Goetz, MA, MPH One of the newest emerging healthcare ventures sells genome profiles. For $1000 and a saliva sample you can get a report describing your personal genome. In this segment host Larry Kaskel discusses with Thomas Goetz, deputy editor of Wired magazine, his recently published cover story on retail genomics.