Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Donald Abrams, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Dr. Donald Abrams, Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF; Chief, Hematology-Oncology, San Francisco General Hospital. They discuss the potential therapeutic value of cannabis in light of its undesirable delivery system via the inhalation of a combustion product. Dr. Abrams conducted a pilot study to investigate vaporization using the Volcanos device as an alternative means of delivery of inhaled Cannabis.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Donald Abrams, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Dr. Donald Abrams, Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF; Chief of Hematology-Oncology at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Abrams discusses his randomized placebo-controlled trial to determine the effect of smoked cannabis on the neuropathic pain of HIV-associated sensory neuropathy and an experimental pain model.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Judith Beck, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel is joined by Dr. Judith Beck of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy. She discusses what research says about the efficacy of cognitive therapy for weight loss and maintenance by understanding how unsuccessful dieters think differently from other people.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Judith Beck, MD

Dr. Larry Kaskel discusses Cognitive Therapy with Dr. Judith Beck of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Beck covers the research on cognitive therapy and highlights how it differs from other psychotherapies.

Guest: Amy Ernst, MD

FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND ITS PREVENTION.

Guest: Amy Ernst, MD

This segment with Dr. Amy Ernst, tenured professor of emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico, explores mechanisms to recognize victims of violence between intimate partners, and the most effective ways to screen patients in your practice who find themselves in this dangerous and unhealthy situation. Dr. Shira Johnson hosts.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Robert Wachter, MD

In this segment, Dr. Robert Wachter talks about patient safety in a hospital setting. He explores the continuum of patient safety models and explains the concept of “Just Culture” which is what he believes to be the ideal model.

Host: Bill Rutenberg, MD

Guest: Robert Wachter, MD

There are now 20,000 hospitalists nationally, more than many other medical specialties. In this segment Dr. Robert Wachter explores the roles of hospitalists and how hospital care changes when patients are managed by hospitalists.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Sujit Varma, MD

One of the most difficult first steps in treating alcoholism is getting the patient to admit that they have a problem. Additionally, their insight and rational thinking is often altered due to the prolonged alcohol abuse. In this segment we will review helpful ways for us to encourage alcoholics to seek treatment.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Sujit Varma, MD

Alcoholism can often stymie the treatment of co-existing conditions: Sometimes alcohol is used to self-medicate problems such as anxiety, depression, or insomnia. Other times treating alcoholism can reveal the presence of an underlying condition. Alcoholism and its comorbidities will be discussed in this segment.