Sunday House Call, #440, May 13, 2013
Topics today include:
Viscosupplementation for knee joints, biceps tendon rupture, sciatica, pancreatitis and guidelines for done density testing.
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Category: Sunday House Call ShowsSunday House Call, #439, May 5, 2013
Topics today include: Ottawa General cuts number of case room nurses, use of Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis, treatment of ulcerative colitis, and neuropathy after chmeotherapy
Sunday House Call, #439, May 5, 2013: Where have all the caseroom nurses gone? Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #438, April 28, 2013 Topics today include: Public reaction to drug addicts is hypocritical, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and degenerative disc disease and sciatica.
Sunday House Call, #437, April 14, 2013 Topics today include: Pancreatic cancer, nutrition question from man with stage IV colon cancer, viscosupplementation for osteoarthritic knee, elevated eye pressure, and post operative abdominal pain.
Sunday House Call, #436, April 14, 2013 Topics today include:,Joint replacement, airlines that charge by passenger weight, health considerations and test for a 61 year-old man who wants to start jogging, and what to do about an infected cuticle.
Sunday House Call, #435, April 7, 2013 Topics today include: Pharmacies automated renewal faxes to physicians’ offices are prone to duplication and wastes time better spent on patient care. Your questions about Lodalis, autopsy results, difficvulties accessing medications, esophageal cancer, and neck pain.
Sunday House Call, #434, March 31, 2013 Topics today include:Electronic implants to curb appetite, more evidence that there is no link between vaccination and autism, carpal tunnel syndrome causing thumb function to deteriorate, pharmacogenomics, insomnia and weight gain with possible misdiagnosis of depression, the decision to provide shingles vaccine to someone who is 48 years old when [...]
Sunday House Call, #433, March 24, 2013 Topics today include: Cataract surgery, vasovagal reflex, medications for enlarged prostate glands, menopausal symptoms and abdominal/pelvic pain, and right hand tingling and numbness.
Sunday House Call, #432, March 17, 2013 Topics today include: MRSA, creatine and vitamin D supplements, MS, vertigo, leg spasms, fused wrist joint, heel spurs and shingles
Sunday House Call, #431, March 10, 2013 Topics today include: Your views on what life support mesures you would want, HRT, colonoscopy, when to refer to a specialist, signs of a child experiencing respiratory distress, spiking blood pressure, varicose vein therapies, Right bundle branch block, reflux disease, and artificial sweetners
Sunday House Call, #429, February 10, 2013 Topics today include: Insurance company screening tests may cause harm, shoulder and muscle pain, shingles, cough-induced syncope (fainting and loss of consciousness), rash developed in hospital, and questions about Splenda.
Sunday House Call, #428, February 3, 2013 Topics today include: Dr. Ben Goldacre’s new book Bad Pharma and his op-ed in the New York Times, hip surgery complications, blood in the stool and dizziness after eating
Sunday House Call, #428, February 3, 2013: Getting ready for Bad Pharma Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #427, January 13, 2013 Topics today include: Commendatory about the recent flu epidemic, and the fact that only 43% of Ottawa Hospital health and support staff have had the flu shot, and now have to take time off… because they have the flu! And this is putting increased strain on those who [...]
Sunday House Call, #426, December 30, 2012 Topics today include: A woman with hair loss, treatment for atrial fibrillation and what is ablation, loss of vertebral bone height in a 37 year-old woman, and right -sided neck pain
Sunday House Call, #425, December 23, 2012 Topics today include: How soon a Shingles infection can you get a shingles vaccine?, More nonsense abotu starch blockers for weight loss, treatment options for breast cancer, and blood and imaging tests to determine if a bone is iinfected.
Sunday House Call, #424, December 16, 2012
Special edition on atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in athletes
Dr. Michael Gollob is a native of Toronto,Ontario, and obtained an undergraduate degree in molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, graduating as a Gold Medalist. He then entered the field of medicine and is now a Clinical Electrophysiologist at The University of Ottawa Heart Institute. His clinical and research interests combine his expertise in both genetics and arrhythmia disorders. He is the Director of The Inherited Arrhythmia Clinic and Arrhythmia Research Laboratory at the Ottawa Heart Institute.
Dr. Gollob’s research focuses on the genetic and physiological basis of cardiac arrhythmia syndromes, including sudden death syndromes and the common arrhythmia of atrial fibrillation. He has Chaired on behalf of the CCS the first document outlining the appropriate use of genetic testing for cardiac diseases associated with a risk of sudden death.
Sunday House Call, #424, December 16, 2012: Special edition on atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in athletes Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Sunday House Call, #423, December 9, 2012 Topics today include: Doctor Dworkin discusses new findings in genetics, which show that all human genetic code has errors, but that doesn’t guarantee someone may get a genetic disease as a result, and the impact such knowledge may have on medical insurance. Your calls about umbilcal hernia, Korsakov’s [...]
Sunday House Call, #422, December 2, 2012 Topics today include: I discuss the preconceptions we have about certain claims when it comes to products or medicine, and how we try to justify them, even when the evidence shows the claims are wrong. He also takes your calls and answers your medical questions about a 20-year-old [...]
Sunday House Call, #421, November 25, 2012 Topics today include:Shortness of breath in a woman with chronic obstructive lung disease, fatty liver and disclosure of test results, ingrown toe nail treatment, and sciatica.
Sunday House Call, #420, November 11, 2012 Topics today include: Doctor Dworkin discusses the relationship between pharmacists and physicians. He relates a story of a pharmacist countermanding the advice of a colleague’s patient’s own doctor when it comes to prescriptions and assigning medication. Your calls about e-cigarettes, chicken pox, do you need a shingles vaccine [...]
Sunday House Call, #419, November 4, 2012 Topics today include: Doctor Dworkin discusses a “passport to our sponsors” given to him at a recent medical conference, which offered prizes to visiting doctors. He asks if this kind of prize-driven set up to meet with corporate sponsors at a medical conference is appropriate. Your calls [...]
Sunday House Call, #418, October 28, 2012 Will you be traveling to warmer locations during the winter months? If so, you should consider what you need to prevent illness when you are away from home in a foreign land. What do you need to do to prepare and when should you do it? What are [...]
Sunday House Call, #417, October 22, 2012 Doctor Dworkin discusses recent controversy on the Dr. Oz show, where an unaccredited, non-medically trained lobbyist against biotechnology was brought on the program but was referred to as a “scientist”, and was allowed to make claims about health risks that were not medically proven. Your calls about coronary [...]
Sunday House Call, #416, October 14, 2012 Topics today include: Several studies on what we thought helps prevent disease does not, you calls about beta blockers and atrial fibrillation, the Hippocratic Oath, painful hands from trauma, mouth blisters and what negation means in our health care system.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 10, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Ontario pharmacists expanded role, rectal bleeding, clonazepam side effects and withdrawal symptoms, medications for mood disorders and an itchy rash under the arm and on the chest.
Sunday House Call, #415, October 7, 2012 Topics today include: Doctor Dworkin reads an excerpt from a new book, Bad Pharma by Dr. Ben Goldacre, a scathing review of how medications and the research to discover them are rife with flaws. Your calls about recovery from knee replacement, a 74 year-old woman with depression and memory problems, post-operative swelling [...]
Sunday House Call, #415, October 7, 2012 - Flawed studies, flawed drugs, and people die Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #414, September 30, 2012 Topics today include: Melting electronics potential for medical use, topical anti-inflammatory medications work just as well as oral meds for localized pain, hypothyroidism treatments, persistent coughing, foot pain, Tai Chi, and how long can stitches remain in place.
Sunday House Call, #413, September 23, 2012 Topics today include a commentary about genome testing as a means of screening healthy adults for potential diseases, your questions about treatment of interstitial cystitis, spinal stenosis, mammogram radiation risk in women of childbearing age, and sleep apnea.
Sunday House Call, #412, September 16, 2012 Topics today include this interesting article from pharmacist Scott Gavura about scam allergy blood tests offered in pharmacies, medication dosins and its relation to weight, acidreflux, cold sores, and a possible reaction to an antibiotic used to treat a bladder infection.
Sunday House Call, #411, September 9, 2012 Callers topics: high fructose corn syrup, skipped heart beats, coughing up blood after radiation therapy, fluid in the endometrium, preventing yo-yo dieting, and heart palpitations
Sunday House Call, #410, September 2, 2012
Topics today include how Ministry of Health bureaucrats dictate how to treat patients, snake “oregano” oil to prevent whopping cough, carpal tunnel syndrome, finding a doctor to treat fibromyalgia and rheumatoid arthritis, lymph nodes detected, health heart lifestyle, enlarging prostate, and electronic cigarettes.
Sunday House Call, #410, September 2, 2012 - Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a Ministry of Health bureaucrat! Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #409, August 26 , 2012 Today: Shingles vaccine, causes of ear pain, MS and sleep disturbances
Sunday House Call, #408, August 20, 2012 A review of Robert Fulford’s commentary on the DSM-V manual of psychiatric diagnoses, hepatitis C screening recommendations, infant feeding, gastric reflux, and cholesterol-lowering medications.
Sunday House Call, #407, July 29, 2012: Living the health care myth, alas not the dream Interview with Stephen Skyvington over this article, Shingles vaccine side effect, wheat restriction for weight loss and vitamin C.
Sunday House Call, #407, July 29, 2012: Living the health care myth, alas not the dream Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #406, July 22, 2012: A Big Whoop We Shouldn’t Celebrate
Today: Whooping cough outbreak in US set to become worst in 50 years. Canada is experiencing outbreaks too.
Caller topics: shingles vaccine indications and can it be used if taking methotrexate (no), antibiotic overuse, a discussion about clinical studies and meta-analyses, what is the evidence for using ASA to prevent heart disease and colon cancer, colon cancer, and cactus juice claims.
Sunday House Call, #406, July 22, 2012: A Big Whoop We Shouldn't Celebrate Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #405, July 15, 2012 Topics today include commentary TV medical talk show personalities, cholera in Cuba, dry mouth at night, Coumadin use, penicillin use and indications for the treatment of bronchitis, and knee and shin pain in a woman with Lupus.
Sunday House Call, #404, July 8, 2012: Fizzy Sugar Water for the Masses
Last month, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his intention to introduce a restriction on soda pop (sugary drinks) cup sizes to no greater than 16 ounces that would affect locales such as city restaurants, stadiums, food carts and movie theatres.
This proposal has generated commentary ranged from total support to outright rejection by some groups. The debate has been framed by some as a health issue and that there must be a starting point to reverse the tide of calorie glut; the opposite of a death by a thousand cuts to better health by a thousand changes.
Others frame it as an assault on the freedom to choose what we want to eat and the government has no place restricting individual food choices.
But we do have a serious problem in society. Our environment is obesogenic, that is, it is designed to promote overconsumption of food: The location of fast food restaurants to the design of food aisles in grocery stores to the fact that in 2009 a study conducted by Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity found that we underestimate the extent of our exposure to junk food advertising and overestimate the degree to which health food is advertised.
The study reported in Timothy Caufield’s new book, The Cure for Everything: Untangling The Twisted Messages About Health, Fitness And Happiness that “carbonated beverages, fast food restaurants and breakfast cereals spent 18,182 times as much marketing to youth ($1.2 billion) compared to dairy, fruits and vegetables ($66,000 in total). Survey participants thought the average kid saw one to 3 junk food television advertisements a day. The actual number? Almost 15. That equals approximately 5500 yearly television messages about the yummy qualities of salt, sugar, and fat.
Joining us today is
Dan Gardner, Ottawa Citizen journalist and author of Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear and Future Babble Why Expert Predictions Fail – and Why We Believe Them Anyway
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, Medical Director of the Bariatric Medical Institute in Ottawa and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa
Sunday House Call, #404, July 8, 2012: Fizzy Sugar Water for the Masses Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #403, June 24, 2012: Let them eat cake! Today: Top desserts that will top you out on the scale, twisted bowl, Big Food’s effect on health and food labels.
Sunday House Call, #402, June 17, 2012 – Radiologists are not just image consultants Interview with Dr. David Jacobs, a Toronto radiologist about cuts to funding of radiological services. Your calls about hair loss, a “fat dad’s” ability to care for his children, and menstrual cramps and bleeding.
Sunday House Call, #402, June 17, 2012 - Radiologists are not just image consultants Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #401, June 10, 2012: They have no plan! Your calls about hip pain and disability after surgery, Grave’s disease and managing hyperthyroidism, swollen breast after lymph node removal, and prostate cancer response to treatment.
Sunday House Call, #400, June 3, 2012 On May 28, 2012 the Association of Ontario Neurologists (AON) expressed its concern that the McGuinty government’s cuts to payments for certain laboratory tests will result in diminished access to testing for patients suffering from neurological conditions. Joining us today is Dr Ranjit Singh, President of the Association [...]
Sunday House Call, #399, May 27, 2012 Topics today include how Calgary scientists have been able turn efficiently turn adult cells into stem cells paving the way for possible tissue regeneration without the risk of cancer, and your calls about gout, osteoporosis, carotid artery stenosis, psoriasis, and reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
Sunday House Call, #398, May 20, 2012 A declaration from the Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. saying ALL Baby Boomers (born between 1945-1965) should be tested for Hepatitis C. Your medical questions about varicose veins, Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and rotator cuff tears
Sunday House Call, #397, May 13, 2012 Topics include pain management for reflex sympathetic dystrophy, dupytren’s contractures, gallstones management options, age when adolescents stop growing, low platelet levels in context of carpal tunnel surgery repair, diabetic neuropathy, and risk of colonoscopy.-
Sunday House Call, #396, May 6, 2012
Sunday House Call, #395, April 29, 2012 A discussion of what the latest Ontario Government decree will do to a patient’s access to family doctors and the health care system in general. It is not a pretty sight.
Sunday House Call, #395, April 27, 2012: The House of Cards is Collapsing Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday House Call, #394, April 22, 2012 Yearly sinus congestion, vibration effect on pacemakers, stiff person syndrome, shingles pain, and meningitis
Sunday House Call, #393, April 15, 2012 Topics today include coconut oil claims, anxiety and depression after stopping breastfeeding, cancer risks and back pain.
Sunday House Call, #392, April 8, 2012 Topics today include the many tests that are not always needed, bariatric surgery, a 15 year-old with suicidal thoughts, weight loss programs, and possible pneumonia/asthma.
Sunday House Call, #391, April 1, 2012 Topics today include how a caller reports her arthritis pain cleared up with antibiotic use, bladder and prostate problems, jaw pain and kidney cyst evaluations.
