Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Bradley Riemann, PhD

Dr. Bradley Riemann discusses medications and cognitive-behavioral therapy used to treat OCD.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD

Guest: Bradley Riemann, PhD

Dr. Bradley Riemann discusses the reasons why OCD is under diagnosed and how clinicians can make an accurate diagnosis of OCD.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: Robert Lowes

Senior editor Bob Lowes joins Dr. Kaskel to discuss the glory days of the doctors lounge and explore why the reasons that have led up to their disappearance. Learn the positives and negatives in how this impacts all doctors.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Catherine Spong, MD

Although some of our listeners publish regularly in the medical literature, many do not. The process has definitely changed over the past several decades as standards for scientific evidence have gone dramatically up. In this segment, Dr. Spong examines this trend and offers an insider's perspectives on the peer-review processes inherent to all medical journals.

Host: Larry Kaskel, MD

Guest: James Bream, JD

Attorney Jim Bream of Querrey & Harrow shares real life examples of disclosure and challenges Dr. Kaskel and the listeners to judge whether the scenarios are in compliance with HIPAA regulations. Tune in for the do's and don'ts.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Catherine Spong, MD

In this segment Dr. Spong examines the proverbial "birth" of an Obstetrics and Gynecology medical paper, from its first "conception" (submission) to the eventual "delivery" (publication).

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Catherine Spong, MD

In the early 1970's, fetal monitoring technology escaped from the laboratory into the clinical environment in a rapid, almost chaotic sequence of events. The assumption upon which fetal monitoring was based was that most mental retardation and cerebral palsy occurs from lack of oxygen during labor, and is therefore preventable. We now that this assumption if false and the benefits of fetal monitoring are seemingly far less than originally hoped. In contrast, the NIH Maternal Fetal Medicine network is a very well designed approach to evaluating treatments before they become the standard of care. In this segment, Dr. Spong overviews some of the prior to currently active studies being conducted by this organization.

Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Catherine Spong, MD

In the 1950's the standard treatment for premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome was 100% oxygen. An estimated 10,000 babies were blinded before the dangers of high oxygen treatment were fully understood. As physicians, many of us are only too aware that we still provide some treatments to patients because that's "the way we always have done it" or because "that is the way we were trained." In this segment, Dr. Spong describes some of the methodologies used to actually test the safety and efficacy of different treatment protocols to learn what works best.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Pauline Chen, MD

Join transplant surgeon, Dr. Pauline Chen as she discusses her book, Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality.

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD

Guest: Pauline Chen, MD

Join transplant surgeon Dr. Pauline Chen as she discusses her article, "Dead Enough? The Paradox of Brain Death."