Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Dan Hounchell

Dan Hounchell provides a step by step plan for doctors to utilize when negotiating contracts with insurance companies.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Dan Hounchell

Dan Hounchell explains how to negotiate contracts with health insurers and avoid the take it or leave it mentality that health insurers present to doctors in regards to contracts.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Linda Clever, MD

Dr. Clever discusses ways in which to lead a full life every day instead of just going through the motions.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Linda Clever, MD

Dr. Clever focuses on conversation groups and how to utilize this forum as a safe place for doctors and nurses to talk to each other.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Linda Clever, MD

Dr. Clever addresses the common problem of taking on too many responsibilities and how to just say NO.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD

Guest: Linda Clever, MD

Dr. Clever discusses why professionals are at high risk for burnout and strategies to address it.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Jonathan Sheldon, JD

Today we use a series of chemicals which may not render criminals unconscious but rather paralyze their breathing. With this in mind, have we really evolved in our scientific rationales?

Host: Shira Johnson, MD

Guest: Jonathan Sheldon, JD

A recent study published in PLOS Medicine went further than just giving political opinions when the authors researched the techniques used in lethal injection from two US states and concluded that these protocols may not reliably affect death through the mechanism intended.

Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Ralph Hruban, MD

Dr. Hruban discusses novel approaches in the detection and treatment of both pancreatic pre-cancerous lesions and pancreatic cancer. New developments hold promise for successful prevention and treatment of this once almost universally fatal illness.

Host: Lee Freedman, MD

Guest: Ralph Hruban, MD

Dr. Hruban discusses the Pancreatic cancer risk assessment system developed at Johns Hopkins (PancPRO) and what steps may be taken based on this risk assessment to find and treat pancreatic neoplasms before they become metastatic killers.