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Podcast 292: Informed consent and apnea testing for death — or — What is death, anyway?

2022/06/17

Apnea testing is part of the protocol used to determine whether a patient is dead according to neurologic criteria. The question is, do clinicians need to obtain consent to proceed? In a fascinating 15-minute chat, two intensivists, Drs. Patricia Kritek and Robert Truog, discuss that question and another, larger one: what is death, anyway? Their back-and-forth […]

Podcast 291: Unionized nursing homes had lower mortality during Covid-19

2022/05/24

In the early waves of the Covid-19 pandemic why did patients in unionized nursing homes, have a roughly 10% lower rate of mortality than those in non-unionized ones? A report in Health Affairs tries to sort out the possible reasons. Listen to our 13-minute interview, which raises the question: Should you send your patients to non-unionized facilities? […]

Podcast 290: USPSTF’s new take on aspirin and primary prevention of CVD

2022/05/08

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently issued its sixth set of guidelines on using daily aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease. The guidelines appeared in JAMA — whose editors asked our guest, Dr. Allan Brett, to write an editorial evaluation. This edition carries Brett’s advice on using the new guidelines in daily clinical practice. Brett’s JAMA editorial USPSTF […]

Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose

2022/05/04

Saline or balanced crystalloids? The question of which resuscitation fluid to use in clinical practice seems to have been settled by recent research findings — or at least settled in favor of balanced crystalloids. But wait, our guests see slight differences that may affect your choice. Patricia Kritek practices critical care medicine at the University of […]

Podcast 288: Following up with a Ukrainian narcologist

2022/04/21

Spend 15 minutes with Dr. Natalia Shevchuk, whom we interviewed by candlelight last month. She is sheltering in the Odessa region now, having left the Donetsk area. This time, she relates how she lost a colleague in Russia’s attack on the Kramatorsk railway station and found another she’d feared lost in Mariupol. She told us that […]

Podcast 287: Thinking about quality-of-life in migraine

2022/04/10

During the American Academy of Neurology’s 2022 meeting in Seattle, Dr. Richard Lipton of Albert Einstein College of Medicine took questions from Dr. Teshamae Monteith (U. Miami) and Joe Elia. Lipton’s group sought to characterize the impact of patients’ monthly headache days on their quality of life, especially the role of depression, allodynia, and anxiety. (Read […]

Podcast 286: Talking about addiction treatment by candlelight from Ukraine’s Donetsk region

2022/03/21

Dr. Natalia Shevchuk (pictured above) treats substance use disorders in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Her face is candlelit because her town is under curfew, and people aren’t allowed to put on their room lights (if they have electricity) in the hours of darkness, lest Russian bombardments use the lights as guides. She talked with Dr. Ali Raja […]

Podcast 285: GERD’s revised guidelines — an internist and a gastroenterologist discuss them.

2022/03/11

Gastroesophageal reflux, or GERD, was the focus of a revised set of guidelines issued in January in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Given the frequency of that condition in primary care clinics, internist and NEJM Journal Watch editor-in-chief Allan Brett proposed a discussion about the practical application of these guidelines with David Bjorkman. Dr. Bjorkman, […]

Podcast 284: The clinical situation in Ukraine

2022/03/08

Some 85 years ago Guernica was bombed, and after that came Dresden, Coventry, Hiroshima, Bach Mai, and the rest. This episode of Clinical Conversations asks how it might be possible to help clinicians under bombardment in Ukraine. As you will hear, one hospital in Chernihiv keeps all but essential staff away from its buildings when […]

Podcast 283: More data — this time from the U.K. — about post-Covid vaccination

2022/02/22

You want more evidence that post-recovery vaccination against Covid-19 reinfection helps? Here is a careful study from the U.K. that followed some 35,000 health care workers — initially without symptoms — in over 100 institutions there. Starting in June 2020 the SIREN study tested these people regularly, with blood sampling every month and nasal swabs […]

Podcast 282: Vaccination after Covid-19 recovery prolongs natural immunity to reinfection

2022/02/17

Governments’ directives about how and when to vaccinate people who’ve recovered from Covid-19 vary widely. But, according to this episode’s guest, Dr. Ronen Arbel, they all say they don’t have enough evidence to set firm policy. So, Arbel and his colleagues set out to collect evidence from some 150,000 patients’ records in Israel who’d recovered […]

Podcast 281: Drug Costs — What’s “The Right Price” for prescription pharmaceuticals?

2022/02/05

Why can’t the U.S. control prescription drug pricing as they do in the U.K., where per-capita spending is less than half our level? In a capitalist democracy, many parties — the drug companies, medical associations, consumer groups — get to lobby their points of view. Is the problem intractable, or just an exercise in chaos? Our three […]

MJH8 2019/09/11

Great news and interviews!

This is a great way to get the week’s top medical news very succinctly, and Joe Elia’s conversations with researchers are highly educational and enter...

ScalpPspriasis 2015/01/25

I really enjoy Joe's voice

Why does he not do the Audio summaries; since the nature of the material is abstruse physicians might not accept him as legit, I like him, but I tried...

RoadWarrior2004 2018/06/21

Decent

The interview titles and topics are very catchy. I think the interviewer for a non clinician is exceptionally bright and talented; however, a trained...

nyhunter77 2013/02/13

Is it coming back?

This is an awesome podcast, is it coming back for 2013?

jthanson 2009/05/02

Great stuff

Great information! Personally I prefer the original title to "Clinical Conversations" but I can count on high quality review and information in this p...

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