Radio Rounds Goes Courtside

…with Dr. Brian Cole, the Head Team Physician of the NBA’s Chicago Bulls and the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball. Dr. Cole is also a Professor of Orthopedics at Rush University Medical Center and offeres some great insights into the world of sports medicine. He talks about a number of topics — from his interest in arthroscopic reconstruction to the steroids era in baseball. He also discusses the intricacies and pressures of treating professional athletes.

Special thanks to the Boonshoft School of Medicine’s Dr. Gary Onady, who provides the jazz music that you can hear in our introduction. In this episode, you can hear Dr. Onady’s smooth sounds on the trumpet for the Eddie Brookshire Quintet.

 

People in Glass Hospitals Shouldn’t Throw Stones

This episode of Radio Rounds aired on Sunday March 11. Check out streaming audio of this episode on WYSO.org and the free podcast download on our iTunes page! Also (coming soon): FULL RECAP!

Featured Guest: Dr. John  Schumann, the founder and author of the popular blog GlassHospital.com, which aims to “demystify” medicine and provide transparency on the workings of medical practice and the complexities of hospital care. Dr. Schumann is a general internist and medical educator — previously at the University of Chicago and now at the University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine, where he functions as the Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program.

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Healing With Prayer

This episode of Radio Rounds aired on Sunday March 4. Check out streaming audio of this episode on WYSO.org and the free podcast download on our iTunes page! Also (coming soon): FULL RECAP!

Featured Guest: Neurosurgeon Dr. David Levy, who discusses the role that prayer can play in the healing relationship between physician and patient.  Dr. Levy shares the powerful, yet lighthearted story of his journey to praying with patients, and the positive impact that it has had on all involved.  In addition, he recently published a book, Gray Matter, that shares more amazing stories about his career.  You can find Gray Matter at bookstores nationwide!

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Safe Travels

This episode of Radio Rounds aired on Sunday February 26. Check out streaming audio of this episode on WYSO.org and the free podcast download on our iTunes page! Also (coming soon): FULL RECAP!

Featured Guest: Assist America CEO Brian Mulligan discusses the unique emergency medical services that his company helps procure for medical students and leisure-seekers alike when they are traveling far from home.

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The Lasting Impact

This episode of Radio Rounds — the SEASON SEVEN PREMIERE — aired on Sunday February 19. Check out streaming audio of this episode on WYSO.org and the free podcast download on our iTunes page! Also (coming soon): FULL RECAP!

Featured Guest: On this episode of Radio Rounds, physician Edward O’Neil explains the uniquely lasting impact that his international medical service organization, OmniMed, has made in Uganda and other impoverished global communities. Dr. O’Neil’s innovative Village Health Team (VHT) model is both reproducible and extraordinarily effective. Dr. O’Neil recently published a new book, Awakening Hippocrites, which is available online and at book stores nationwide.

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Gesundheit! Featuring Patch Adams

 

This episode — the Season Six Finale — aired on Sunday December 18, 2011. You can listen to this episode in its entirety on WYSO.org or download the free podcast on our iTunes page!

Compassionate healing is available to all people in all professions.  Radio Rounds aims to showcase this quality in the field of medicine, and in this Season 6 finale, our guest’s enthusiasm for this concept is contagious.

Featured Guest: Physician and social activist Patch Adams, founder of the world-renowned Gesundheit! Institute. In this episode, Patch energetically discusses his outlook on medicine, life, and the human community, and he shares his feelings about the 1998 film “Patch Adams” starring Robin Williams.

Patch Adams shares with hosts Avash Kalra and John Corker the darker paths of his life that led to his unabashed “love revolution” and his desire to enter the field of medicine.  He learned to communicate and connect with people through unorthodox means and shares with us how those experiences taught him to make intimate, personal connections with everyone — most of all, patients all over the world.

To learn more about Patch Adams and his Gesundheit! Institute, visit www.patchadams.org.

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The Interview

This episode aired on Sunday December 11, 2011. You can listen to this episode in its entirety on WYSO.org or download the free podcast on our iTunes page!

Summary: In this episode, host John Corker sits down with current first-year medical student and Radio Rounds staff member, Sam Roberto, as well as second-year medical student and students admissions committee member, Nick Hountras, to discuss the secrets to success in medical school admissions interviews.

Applying to medical school can be an intimidating task, but with the help of our staff in this episode you can “get a leg up” on the competition.  Nick Hountras shares some of the things he looks for when interviewing candidates for admission to medical school and also shares potential application “red flags.”

Sam Roberto details some of the unique questions he was asked in his interviews last fall and offers insight into his methods for interview preparation.  He also shares how he handled the questions that he had not considered prior to the interview.

To get answers to questions about medical school and the applications process you can visit www.studentdoctor.net.

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