Host: Paul Raeburn

Guest: Karen Pollitz, PhD

The idea sounds good: Give consumers a bigger role in designing how their health dollars are spent. But how does it work in practice? Is it better for consumers? Better for physicians? Better for insurers? Find out now.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Denise Pinney, Dean

Join Denise Pinney, Assistant Dean of Health, Science and Technology at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, NJ as she discusses health-law degrees for medical professionals.

Host: Gary Kohn, MD

Guest: Robert McGuffin, MD

Dr. McGuffin talks about his experiences as a flight surgeon and the common types of emergent medical problems people face during airline transits.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Michael Millis, MD

In this segment, Dr. Millis examines the ethical issues of several modern organ donation methods, including paired exchange. Referenced and discussed in this discussion is the Norwood Living Organ Donation Act passed recently, and the challenges and controversies this development has brought. The interview concludes with a critical analysis on matching donor website organizations, raising the question on whether these resources ultimately prevent a level playing field for waiting organ recipients.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Michael Millis, MD

In this segment, Dr. Millis examines the use of "marginal" or "expanded" donors in the United States, and the various factors behind increasing utilization of these potential donors who would otherwise be ineligible from their own medical problems or comorbidities. The interview then transitions towards some of the ethical issues inherent in "presumed" consent, a hospital policy recently accelerating throughout much of Europe.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Michael Millis, MD

In this segment, Dr. Millis discusses his work in spurring changes within the Chinese transplant programs to institute more ethically sound transplant policies. Currently there are approximately 120 accredited transplant centers in China, a far-cry from the 500 loosely certified centers operating only a few years ago. The interview follows with a discussion on the end of "transplant tourism" and the various coercive measures exacted to make organ donors of Chinese prisoners.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Thomas Quinn, MD

In this segment, Dr. Quinn addresses the history of HIV/AIDS development in Africa over the past 25 years. The interview then follows with a more modern-day look at circumcision practices being used as methods for reducing STD transmission in Africa.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD

Guest: Thomas Quinn, MD

In this segment, Dr. Quinn discusses important milestones in the history of HIV/AIDS within America. He then transitions into the modern era with an analysis of the "End of Exceptionalism" initiative by the CDC to blood test the masses for HIV-screening purposes regardless of individual risk factors.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Thomas Finucane, MD

Join Dr. Thomas E. Finucane, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as he discusses his May 2007 article in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association titled, "Tube Feeding in Dementia: How Incentives Undermine Health Care Quality and Patient Safety."

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Thomas Finucane, MD

Join Dr. Thomas E. Finucane, Professor of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, as he discusses the myths and realities of feeding tubes for patients with advanced dementia.