This episode of Radio Rounds, featuring a pair of powerful and moving interviews, aired on January 17, 2010 and is available as a free-to-download podcast on our iTunes page!
First, we hear from Dr. Evan Lyon, a physician for the Massachusetts-based organization ‘Partners in Health.’ For the past decade, Dr. Lyon has split his time between Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and seven Partners in Health/Zanmi Lasante sites located in Haiti. With the devastating earthquake in Haiti just days before this episode, Dr. Lyon is on his way back to his clinics in Haiti. We were fortunate enough to speak to Dr. Lyon from his layover in Miami, FL. You can hear our interview with Dr. Lyon in its entirety by using the audio player below!
This episode also features special interview with a young patient named Brandon. In November 2009, ‘Rounds’ co-host Lakshman Swamy and a group of second year medical students from the Boonshoft School of Medicine visited the Haslinger Family Pediatric Palliative Care Center at Akron Children’s Hospital, in Akron, Ohio. While at the Center, they met and spoke with numerous patients, families, and physicians. Among them — Brandon, who spoke with Lakshman & co. bedside, along with his mother and his physician. Brandon is 14 years old and has neuroblastoma. He describes — with inspiring perspective — his diagnosis and his life. This is the first of a pair of interviews featuring patients from the Haslinger Center — for more, see Episode 307.
Finally, in this episode’s Residency Program segment, we hear from Dr. Steven Reichert, the program director for the Cornell University Internal Medicine program at New York Hospital Medical Center of Queens, in New York City.