The Word on Medicine
Highlights medical innovation and discovery. The Word on Medicine, where knowledge is changing life, by making tomorrow better than yesterday.
Episodes
April 18, 2024 • 46 mins
We have an amazing program for you this Saturday as The Word on Medicine explores Hearing Loss in Children. Our experts include Dr. Karl Doerfer, assistant professor of otolaryngology at MCW and Dr. Sarah Klajbor, a pediatric cochlear implant audiologist - they are true experts in cochlear implants, an operation which will be explained in detail along with the many causes for childhood hearing loss. Most important, The Word on Medi...
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March 24, 2024 • 48 mins
We have a wonderful program in store for you this Saturday as The Word on Medicine explores the Life of a Pharmacist: how they are trained and more on what they do. I know you will be amazed at the scope and importance of their influence on your health. This is our second program on pharmacists - the previous one can be found on our website at mcw.edu/surgery. We are joined this Saturday by Dr. George MacKinnon, founding dean and p...
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March 10, 2024 • 46 mins
We have a great show for you this Saturday which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. Today's program focuses on Asthma: an incredibly common chronic respiratory condition that affects over 25 million adults and children across the United States. Please join Dr. Asriana Chiu, Dr. Matthew Tallar, Sara Lowe (APNP) and a patient as they discuss the signs and symptoms, diagnosis and treatme...
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February 28, 2024 • 47 mins
We have an eye-opening program for you today as The Word on Medicine explores a topic of great interest to us all: Hospital Quality and Safety - opening the book on this topic, which is so important. We are joined by a true team of experts to include Anne Bobb, Paula Schmidt, and Drs. Michael Stadler, Mark Lodes, Siddhartha Singh, and Ian Schwartz. Terms such as safety, quality and value are explained as they relate to making you...
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February 18, 2024 • 49 mins
We have a wonderful program in store for you this Saturday as The Word on Medicine explores your voice, vocal cords, all aspects of the voice box as well as adult tonsils, cancer in this area and much more! Listen in for a really interesting program with Drs. Michael Stadler and Jonathan Bock who will joined by one of their patients. Understanding this complex part of human anatomy is combined with a unique patient story which remi...
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January 26, 2024 • 47 mins
The Word on Medicine explores Vaccines – a topic which engenders tremendous hope and excitement, a touch of controversy with perhaps a healthy dose of misinformation. Not to worry – as usual, The Word on Medicine has the true story provided by a team of experts: Drs. Elyse Weitzman, Anna Corey, Anna Huppler, Alisa Carlson, and Michelle Mitchell. For those of you who are struggling to understand this topic and especially for those o...
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January 14, 2024 • 47 mins
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month: this Saturday, "The Word on Medicine” will replay our program on Cervical Cancer: medical experts and patients discuss the symptoms and treatment of cervical dysplasia and cervical cancer; the role of human papillomarivus (HPV); and current strategies in treatment for cervical cancer as well as new therapies on the horizon. Our panel of experts includes Drs. Denise Uyar, William Bradley, ...
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January 6, 2024 • 47 mins
We have a great show for you this Saturday which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. This week's program discusses Congenital Heart Disease. Congenital heart surgeons, Dr. Michael Mitchell and Dr. Tracy Geoffrion, along with a patient and her mother, discuss an overview of congenital heart disease, reasons for surgery, and Tetralogy of Fallot. Tetralogy of Fallot is a group of four con...
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December 17, 2023 • 50 mins
We have a wonderful program in store for you today as The Word on Medicine gives all of us a current update on Vaccines: Medical experts discuss updates on vaccines for influenza, COVID, RSV and pneumococcal, including safety and up-to-date recommendations. Join our panel of experts: Drs. Alisa Carlson, Jeremy Steinbruck, Michelle Mitchell, Audrey Kostrzewa, and Anna Huppler - this show is a must-listen, focusing on an incredibly i...
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December 10, 2023 • 59 mins
We have a wonderful program in store for you today as The Word on Medicine explores a very common problem: Thyroid Nodules, to include benign lumps in the thyroid as well as thyroid cancer in both adults and children. Our all-star panel includes Drs. Kathleen Bhatt, Ty Carroll, Pallavi Iyer, and Sophie Dream, along with two of their patients. A big thank you to Dr. Tracy Wang for putting this fact-filled program together. Unique to...
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December 3, 2023 • 57 mins
We have a great show for you this week which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. This Saturday, our program focuses on the Convergent Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation. Please join our panel of experts, Dr. Stefano Schena, Claire Dohmen (ANP), Tricia Wilcox (ANP) and a patient to discuss the innovations to this hybrid approach for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, which has been de...
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November 16, 2023 • 47 mins
We have a great show for you this week which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. This Saturday’s program tells the story of Seasonal Allergies, Allergic Rhinitis and Food Allergies: why are allergies now more common in this country, how are they diagnosed, and what are the treatment options. Our expert guests include Drs. Asriani Chiu and Matthew Tallar, along with Lynn Walczak (RN) – ...
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November 5, 2023 • 48 mins
We have a great show for you this week which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. Infertility (lack of pregnancy despite 12 months without birth control) is more common than you think, and the cause is equally split between male and female partners in the relationship. This week’s program reviews the causes of infertility, how it is evaluated in both men and women, and what can be done ...
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October 24, 2023 • 48 mins
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women today. Join us this week on The Word on Medicine as we discuss The Psychological, Sexual and Physical Aspects of Breast Cancer. Please join our panel of experts, Drs. Karen Kersting and Jutta Deininger, Gina Zader (OTR), Meg Walker (PT) and Marloe Esch (RN) for this very personal and informative program.
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October 12, 2023 • 51 mins
We have a great show for you today which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. Today's show is on Liver and Kidney Transplant Surgery: Medical experts and patients discuss end stage liver and kidney disease that require organ transplant and the importance of organ donation, including living donation. Please join our panel of medical experts: Drs. Kondragunta Rajendra Prasad and Emily Joa...
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September 24, 2023 • 49 mins
We have a special edition of The Word on Medicine for you this Saturday. Our program discusses Keeping Your Doctors Healthy: a topic that often does not get the attention it needs. As you all know, doctors make the worst patients! In order to keep all of you healthy, we need a well-run health system and healthy doctors and nurses. Unfortunately, doctors may occasionally not take good care of themselves, something we will dive into ...
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September 10, 2023 • 59 mins
We have a great show for you this week which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. This Saturday, physicians and a patient discuss Deep Brain Stimulation: a device implanted in the brain that helps to control the symptoms of neurologic movement disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, essential tremor and dystonia. Please join this in-depth program with experts Dr. Ryan Brennan and Dr. ...
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September 5, 2023 • 50 mins
The Word on Medicine has a wonderful program this week – and it is all about Kidney Transplantation.
Our all-star cast includes Dr. Matthew Cooper, Chief of Transplantation; Alyssa Rutledge, Registered Nurse and Kidney/Pancreas Transplant Coordinator; Dr. Rima Patel, Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation in the Division of Nephrology; and Ami Blatter, a Registered Nurse and Living Kidney Donor Transplant Coordin...
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August 21, 2023 • 51 mins
We have a great show for you today which will provide all of the answers you have come to expect from The Word on Medicine. Today we will discuss The Importance of Pharmacists in Critical Care Areas of the Hospital: how to become a pharmacist, why the specialty is so important, and so much more. We welcome Dr. George MacKinnon, Founding Dean of the School of Pharmacy at MCW, along with Morgan Carroll, a third-year pharmacy student...
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August 14, 2023 • 47 mins
We have a really fun show for you this week with a few extra special guests! Our program today is on Medical Research and The Importance of Supporting Advances in Medical Care: as we have said before, not all of us are patients today, but we all will be a patient of tomorrow. We want to ensure that we are treating the patients of tomorrow even better than we are treating the patients of today. Please join our amazing line-up for th...
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