Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD

Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses the physician's role in consumer-driven health care as elaborated in her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD

Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses applying consumer-driven health care to the U.S. health care system as argued in her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillioin Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD

Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Nina Gentile, MD

Dr. Shira Johnson speaks with Dr. Nina Gentile about the development of NIH-funded NETT, the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network, which is underway ay Temple University.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Nina Gentile, MD

Nationwide, about 15 million adults and children are seen in emergency departments annually for acute neurological emergencies. Because of the delay in seeing a specialist, time is lost. All practicing Emergency Room physicians have had experiences where in some cases, the outcome has significant morbidity, or in the worse scenario, the outcome has been fatal.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD

Angry, resentful, emotionally labile, manipulative; does that sound like the behavior of your patients, or even your staff?

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD

Any doctor who has an office practice encounters patients with refractory headaches. How do you manage these patients, what medications and therapies work, and when do you refer?

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Howard Eisenson, MD

Guest: Martin Binks, PhD

For almost 40 years, the world-renowned residential weight loss program offered at the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center has helped thousands of people change their lives. Drs. E and B discuss how we can incorporate what they have learned over four decades to help our patients lose weight and keep it off.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD

Adolescent headaches; they can be difficult to manage for any primary care practioner. When is it malingering, when is it the atypical presentation of another disease such as leukemia, and when it is recurrent, how do you treat it?

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Paul Markovitz, MD

Fibromyalgia, migraines, IBS, TMJ, PMS and neurodermatitis are common illnesses in women. Dr. Paul Markowitz discusses neurobiochemical similarities between these various problems and a theoretical parsimony of diagnosis, and how this may inform medication choices.