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Podcast 159: Making the Clinical Diagnosis, But Blowing the Patient’s Treatment Preference

Joe Elia • November 10th, 2012

Categories: Audio, breast cancer, Diagnosis, Patient care, treatment choice, Uncategorized

(8 votes, average: 3.25 out of 5)

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Running time: 20 min. In some diseases there are two diagnoses to make: the clinical diagnosis and the diagnosis of what the patient’s treatment preference is. The first is hard enough to make, and the widening choice of treatment choices complicates the second. Welcome to the task of “preference diagnosis,” which can lead to [...]

Tags: Cardiff Univeristy, Chris Trimble, discussions with patients, Glyn Elwyn, option grid, patients, preference diagnosis, treatment choice

Podcast 158: Physician-assisted dying — a conversation with Dr. Marcia Angell about the Massachusetts ‘Death with Dignity’ ballot question

Joe Elia • October 18th, 2012

Categories: death, dying, Massachusetts, Patient care

(6 votes, average: 3.17 out of 5)

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Our conversation explores the question that Dr. Marcia Angell poses in a recent essay in the New York Review of Books: May doctors help you to die? Angell’s is the first name to appear as the sponsor of a November 6 ballot initiative here in Massachusetts, which is modeled on the Oregon law already [...]

Tags: ballot questions, Death with Dignity Act, dying, Marcia Angell, Massachusetts, patients, terminal care

Podcast 126: Placebos and Medical ‘Meaning’

Joe Elia • July 16th, 2011

Categories: asthma, Audio, Patient care, Placebos, treatment choice, Uncategorized

(4 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5)

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Last week’s New England Journal of Medicine paper on the placebo effect in evaluating asthma treatments was fascinating in itself. The editorial that accompanied it, however, was a delight. It asks clinicians to think less about laboratory measures of cure, and more about the patient’s satisfaction with treatment — whether the treatment was “real” [...]

Tags: alternative medicine, asthma, Daniel Moerman, Meaning, patients, Placebos, Treatment

Podcast 24: An interview with Dr. Douglas B. White on the perspectives of surrogate decision makers regarding discussions about their loved one’s prognosis

Joe Elia • December 21st, 2008

Categories: Audio, End of life, prognosis

(2 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

We talk with Douglas B. White about his paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine, entitled “Hope, Truth, and Preparing for Death: Perspectives of surrogate decision makers,” and we offer a roundup of the week’s news. A reminder, before we start, that Admitting Diagnosis is taking the next two weeks off. We hope you’ll find [...]

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Tags: 2008 top stories, antiepileptics, diabetes, Douglas B. White, end-of-life care, HER2 gene, patients, prognosis, surrogates

Podcast 20: While we take a week off, we offer the reprise of an interview with Dr. Steven Woloshin of Dartmouth Medical School.

Joe Elia • November 18th, 2008

Categories: Audio, Uncategorized

(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5)

We interviewed Steven Woloshin back in June about a method of showing patients the magnitude of the risks they face from habits like smoking. We reprise the interview while we take some time off to recharge our batteries. Interview link: First Watch coverage of Woloshin’s study in JNCI