Doc Talk with Monument Health

Doc Talk with Monument Health

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Doc Talk with Monument Health episodes

  • Episode 214: Deep Brain Stimulation Comes Home to Rapid City with Robert Ziechmann, M.D.
    When tremors make it hard to hold a cup of coffee or sign your name, medication isn’t always enough. Monument Health neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Ziechmann explains how deep brain stimulation helps patients with Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor get their lives back. He covers how the surgery works under anesthesia, what success looks like for each patient, and what’s next for this technology. Best of all, you no longer have to leave Rapid City to get it.

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    24 min
  • Episode 213: Rapid City's First Epilepsy Monitoring Unit with Donald Barr, M.D.
    Until this year, families in western South Dakota had to drive to Minnesota or Colorado for epilepsy monitoring. Now Monument Health has opened the region's first epilepsy monitoring unit, right here in Rapid City. Epileptologist and neurology section chief Dr. Donald Barr talks about what happens during a five-day stay and why doctors sometimes want to trigger a seizure on purpose. He also covers the surgery that can actually cure epilepsy, and how watching his own father live with the disease shaped his career.

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    33 min
  • BEST OF DOC TALK Episode 160: What Every Woman Should Know About Breast Cancer with Ashlea Semmens, M.D.
    This is a repeat episode. Dr. Ashlea Semmens, M.D., medical director of the Breast Center at Monument Health, joins Doc Talk to walk through what every woman should know about breast cancer, risk factors you can and can't control, how to do a real at-home self-check, when mammograms actually start and what they can and can't catch, and what treatment looks like once a diagnosis comes back.

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    27 min
  • BEST OF DOC TALK Episode 189: Women’s Reproductive Cancers with Keely Ulmer, M.D.
    This is a repeat of one of our most compelling Doc Talk conversations. Dr. Keely Ulmer, gynecologic oncologist at the Cancer Care Institute at Monument Health, shares her remarkable path from the Pine Ridge Reservation to the operating room. She walks through the four main gynecologic cancers, the symptoms women too often brush aside, and why the HPV vaccine is the closest thing we have to a cancer eraser. If you or someone you love has ever put off a screening, this one's worth a second listen.

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    25 min
  • BEST OF DOC TALK Episode 121: Why Mental Health Is Physical Health, with Breanna Janovy, CSW-PIP
    This is a repeat episode. Mark sits down with Breanna Janovy, CSW-PIP, a certified social worker at Monument Health, to talk about something that doesn't get said enough: your mental health and your physical health are the same thing, really. Breanna breaks down why so many of us will run to urgent care for a stomach ache but won't say a word about feeling anxious or depressed, and she shares what it actually looks like to ask for help, why the first visit isn't as scary as you think, and how Monument Health is making mental health support available right in the Sturgis clinic.

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    18 min
  • BEST OF DOC TALK Episode 140: Beating Chronic Pain with the Intrathecal Pain Pump, Dr. Steven Frost

    This is a repeat airing of Doc Talk with Monument Health. Anesthesiologist and pain medicine specialist Dr. Steven Frost, Rapid City's first pain management doctor, joins Mark Houston to talk about the intrathecal pain pump, a device that delivers pain relief straight to the spinal cord at a fraction of the dose needed with oral medication. They cover how it works, who's a candidate, and why getting ahead of chronic and cancer pain can lead to a better quality of life and better outcomes.


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    28 min
  • BEST OF DOC TALK Episode 187: Psychiatry in the Black Hills with Chaston Ellis, D.O.
    In this repeat episode of Doc Talk, Chaston Ellis, D.O., Psychiatrist at Behavioral Health in Rapid City, speaks on Monument Health’s efforts to increase access to psychiatric treatment and mental health care in the Black Hills. Dr. Ellis shares a bit about his background and motivations for pursuing psychiatry and gives perspective on how social media might be complicating anxiety disorders, while simultaneously helping to destigmatize mental health care. The most important message Dr. Ellis would like to share is that mental health care is now more accessible in the area than it has ever been before and that simply showing up and staying optimistic is one of the biggest steps you can take toward improvement.

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    27 min
  • Episode 207: Athletic Training at the Black Hills Roundup with Sonnie Neiman, ATC
    Description: Athletic trainer Sonnie Neiman spends her school year taping ankles and covering games in Hulett Wyoming, but the Fourth of July finds her behind the chutes at the Black Hills Roundup. She explains what athletic trainers actually do, how Monument Health places her in the community as a contracted trainer and why rodeo athletes will take gobs of tape just to get through eight seconds. Sonnie walks through the injuries that surprise people, from rope burns to ACL tears, and the ones that look like any other sport. It's a close-up on the crew keeping cowboys and cowgirls in the arena.

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    14 min
  • Episode 206: Monument Health's New Hybrid Operating Room with Tommaso Cambiaghi, M.D.
    Monument Health opens the doors to a brand-new hybrid operating room built for the region's most complex heart and vascular cases. Cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon Tommaso Cambiaghi, M.D. walks through the space and explains the TAMBE device, a branched endovascular graft he helped evaluate that treats aortic aneurysms without open surgery. He breaks down the OR team, the technology behind the C-arm imaging system, and what AI's growing role in cardiovascular care means for patients. It's advanced aortic care now available close to home in Rapid City.

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    21 min
  • Episode 205: Diverticulitis and Robotic Colon Surgery with Steven Donahue, M.D.
    Host Mark Houston sits down with colorectal surgeon Dr. Steven Donahue to talk about diverticulitis, a condition Houston has lived with for over two decades. They walk through what causes it, when repeat flare-ups turn into a real conversation about surgery, and what recovery looks like using Monument Health's da Vinci robotic surgery system. Houston shares his own experience going through the procedure, start to finish, and Dr. Donahue breaks down what patients can actually expect, from that first consult to the fear most people have about ending up with a colostomy bag.

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    26 min

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