August 15th, 2013
Podcast 165: The Mediterranean diet’s salutary interaction with risk-conferring genes
Running time: 14 minutes. A study in Diabetes Care shows that people at higher genetic risk for diabetes and cardiovascular complications had a relatively lower stroke risk when they adhered to a Mediterranean diet. Dr. Jose Ordovas, the study’s senior author, is our guest for this discussion about the interaction between genes and diet — and […]
June 14th, 2013
Podcast 163: Boston bombings – 4
Dr. Brien Barnewolt of Tufts Medical Center shares his thoughts on the aftermath of the April 15 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Simple things matter in these circumstances, like wearing your ID badge. Length: 9 minutes
May 21st, 2013
Podcast 162: Boston bombings lessons part 3
Andrew Ulrich, executive vice chair of Boston Medical Center’s emergency department and an associate professor of emergency medicine at Boston University School of Medicine talks about the day and its lessons. He was just starting his shift when victims began arriving. We’ll continue our explorations of the bombings, trying at least to salvage some lessons. If […]
May 14th, 2013
Podcast 161: Boston bombings’ lessons part two
Alasdair Conn, chief of emergency services at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School continues our series on the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Thank you for listening. Do let us know what you think. Joe Elia Links: Dr. Conn’s essay in the Annals of Internal Medicine Last week’s conversation with Dr. […]
May 9th, 2013
Podcast 160: The Marathon bombing — lessons learned
Thank you for your questions about the status of Clinical Conversations. We’re edging our way back toward a normal schedule with this, the first of a planned multipart series on the lessons learned in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings. Ron M. Walls, professor and chair of the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and […]
November 10th, 2012
Podcast 159: Making the Clinical Diagnosis, But Blowing the Patient’s Treatment Preference
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 disappointment and worse […]
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