Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 16, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:What is an EMG?, medications for psoriasis, angina and low blood pressure, and the extra 5 minutes a day home care announcement from the McGuinty Government.
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Category: Wednesday House Call
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 9, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: The Ontario Government’s continued misinformation campaign to smear doctors and the law of unintended consequences.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 2, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews misrepresentation and demonization of doctors income and the negotiations impasse, schizophrenia and knee pain.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 25, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Bunions leading to knee and hip pain, skin ankle infection, granuloma annulare, and sciatic-like pain.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 18, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Caffeine, weight gain in pregnancy, shingles, and pain management
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 11, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call April 4, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Is sugar toxic?, aflatoxin, meds for COPD, concussion, elevated ferritin levels, and hyperhydrosis.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 28, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Fatty liver disease, why codeine does not work for some, abdominal aortic aneurysms, and interpreting PSA tests
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 21, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: VRE, hair loss in women, right leg swelling and the Ornge fiasco as reported by the Ontario Auditor General
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 14, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Soda water, cinnamon tablets, atrial flutter, bunion treatments, diabetes control with weight loss.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call March 7, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Double vision, cerebeelar atrophy, Bone cancer questions, and elbow inflammation extending to the hand.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 29, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Tendon lacerations of the hand, quackery to remove belly fat, capsaicin offers aclue to chronic rib pain, cryotherapy vs laser for removal of facial moles, [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 22, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Burning sensation in the leg, the outdoor smoking ban, 5th metarsal head fracture, and thyroid nodules.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 15, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: The Drummond Report
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 8, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Skipped heart beats, grinding teeth and restless legs, leg pain, stage 3 lung cancer treatment options, sleep disorders and low back/flank pain
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call February 1, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: The Strawman Argument but forth by Ontario Health Minister regarding health expenditures, coconut extract for dementia, iron overload, shingles recurrence and the difference between herpes zoster and [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 25, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Gastric byoass surgery, chronic sinus congestion, chronic migraines, muscle aches, abdominal and pelvic adhesions after surgery, erectile dysfunction, and questions about statins
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 18, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Numbness in the feet, tiny skin bumps on the arms, SPECT scans, medication side effects in the elderly, Trillium drug plan, pain in the back of the head, and [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January , 2012
Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Today: Sore wrist after surgery, weight loss strategies must include behaviour modification, post concussion syndrome, PET scans, and Raynaud’s Phenomenon
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call January 4, 2012 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Anna Drahovzal to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Dog hair skin irritation, nail fungal infections, leg rah and pain, leg numbness, hypertension, and blood in the urine
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 28, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Year-end health stats recap
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 14, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Plantar Fasciitis, c.difficile, peptic ulcer disease, red rash on a breast, Grover’s Disease and rotator cuff tear pain management
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call December 7, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Concussions’ brain damage effects, a spot on the lung, cardiac stress stesting and loss of muscle mass.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 30, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Generic medication concerns and why they are not truly the same as brand-name medications, sinus pain and infections, hepatitis C transmission risks, excessive sweating, and diabetes glucose monitoring [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 23, 2011
Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Today: ablation for atrial fibrillation, congestive heart failure, warts on the hands, Osgoode-Schlatter, and hip replacement issues
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 16, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: possible osteonecrosis of the knee, rheumatoid factor test, supraspinatus tear and repair, hoarse voice from inhaled steroid use, and treatments for macular degeneration are expensive
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 9, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Chicken pox parties and lollipops, shingles, osteoporosis treatments, ferritin levels and more shingles.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call November 2, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Discussion about the flu shot and the need for mandatory requirements for health care workers, angiograms, the difference between echocardiograms, persantine-thallium tests and PET scans, thimerisol is safe, low sodium [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 26, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Dumping syndrome, colonoscopy discomfort, multinodular goiter, osteoarthritis in 44 year-old man, and an 83 year-old woman losing weight
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 19, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 12, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: What to do about a foreign body in a fingertip, knee pain, crohn’s disease, and a tight knee after knee replacement.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call October 5, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Elevated Uric Acid levels and gout, incisional abdominal hernia, low blood pressure with beta-blocker use, treatment of psoriasis
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 28, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: MRI wait times for knee assessment, cigarette paper combustion, physician assistants, rib pain, low magnesium after open heart surgery, stroke
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 21, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Unexplained weight loss, esophageal discomfort, itchy ear canals, vision loss, a burning throat, and can you stop your steroid inhaler?
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 14, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Discussion of explosion of diabetes around the world, vestibular concussion, numb togue, a review of a caller’s mammogram results and hip pain Today:
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call September 7, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: We discuss Sidney Crosby’s concussion and hockey future and other calls
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 31, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Back pain, hepatitis C, C. difficile and probiotics, DVT post caesarian section risk.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 10 , 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call August 3, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Colon cleansing pseudoscience, screening children for developmental delay, colonoscopy, low back strain, and the development of a third nipple
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 27, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: low magnesium levels, treatment of kidney stones, pilonidal cysts/abscesses, bladder cancer, monitoring abdominal aortic aneurysms, spinal myelograms, and hernaiated discs.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 20, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Ron Corbett to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Low blood pressure, an explanation why herpes is not just herpes, it can be shingles, swimmer’s itch, teh use of Ensure as a supplement, psoriasis, and a persisten cough. [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 13, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Anna Drahovzal to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Teen energy drink consumption, restless leg syndrome, leg cramps, trigeminal neuralgia, knee pain, complete exhaustion, shoulder injuries, rotator cuff tear
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call July 7, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Psoriasis, enlarged prostate, urine colour changes, Guillan Barre Syndrome and leg pain, and trigger finger. A discussion about this article on Champix.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 22, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today’s topics, atrial fibrillation and testing, throat spasm, measles, nasal ulcerations, stomach upset with Pradax
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 15, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 8, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: Quebec medical residents cannot work more than 16 hour shifts in hospital according to new Charter rights ruling, numb thumb and index finger, a non-healing wound, hip pain, [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call June 1, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today: The media hype about cellphones and glioblastoma risk, viscosupplementation for osteoarthritis of the knee, radiowaves and health issues, abrupt cessation of blood pressure medications, and dizziness.
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 25, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today’s topics include the measles outbreak in the US, diclofenac emul gel use, prostate cancer treatment options in a man of 82 years of age, insulin injection site choices, Raynauds [...]
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 18, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Wait times, pneumonia, organ donation, and MRIs
Afternoon Edition – Wednesday House Call May 11, 2011 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to take calls on medical matters from the CFRA Nation. Today:Bedbugs that carry superbugs, strokes at night, a splotchy rash, diverticulitis, knee pain and gallstones
