On Medical Grounds

Interested in a local health department perspective on childhood immunizations? Ms. Katie Towns has been the public face of municipal support for a COVID-19 vaccination program. No stranger to vaccination rollouts, she participated in distributing influenza vaccines during the 2009 H1N1 viral outbreak and is here to speak with Jane about childhood immunizations, misinformation, and how the local Vaccine 417 program is helping in our home base, Springfield, MO. 

(00:30) Introduction to Ms. Katie Towns
(01:10) A health department's role in childhood immunizations
(02:43) Reductions in childhood immunizations
(04:34) Barriers to overcome for parents
(06:12) Ways the health department deals with vaccine hesitancy
(07:50) The Vaccine417 program at Vaccine417.com
(09:48) Teen immunizations
(11:17) Reductions in teen immunizations
(13:15) What can the community do?
(14:31) Dilemmas in keeping schools safe
(16:14) What keeps Katie up at night?

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The guest for our third episode of White Coat Radicals is Dr. Mark Navin, PhD, HEC-C, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Oakland University. His specialty is clinical and public health ethics and bioethics. Dr. Navin is here to speak with Jane about medical ethics, vaccine mandates, vaccine hesitancy, and politicized medicine. 

(00:19) Introduction to Dr. Mark Navin
(00:47) Vaccine refusal
(02:22) Vaccine behaviors
(03:38) Vaccine refusal among healthcare professionals
(05:11) Ethics of encouraging vaccine refusal
(06:34) Other ethical reasons for vaccine refusal
(08:44) Ethics of unproven treatments
(10:02) Off-label use
(10:49) Medical ethics and politics
(13:16) Biggest ethical dilemmas of healthcare today
(15:03) Accountability of politicians and healthcare professionals in the media
(16:27) Medical ethics and social media

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Ms. Melody Butler, BSN, RN, CIC is the founding executive director and president of the Nurses Who Vaccinate organization.  A registered nurse and infection preventionist, she is currently serving as a member of the National Vaccine Advisory Committee. She is here to speak with Jane about the vaccine advocacy community and how to approach colleagues who may be vaccine hesitant. 

(00:13) Introducing Ms. Melody Butler
(00:44) Even nurses have questions about vaccine safety, Melody's story.
(05:53) Origins of Nurses Who Vaccinate
(08:15) Role of NWV in nursing 
(10:19) Advice for fighting misinformation from colleagues
(12:04) Fighting misinformation from bosses or supervisors
(16:21) How do you help non-professionals dealing with misinformation?

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Our guest for this episode is Mr. Todd Haines. Mr. Haines is an emergency department nurse and will discuss his experiences with violence in the workplace, what can be done to support healthcare workers, and the Senate Bill 4182, the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act.

(00:15) Introduction to Mr. Todd Haines
(00:53) How often do healthcare worker assaults happen?
(03:10) Workplace violence and the pandemic
(05:10) Violence prior to the pandemic
(05:16) Workers leaving healthcare
(06:10) Effects of understaffing
(09:09) Does size matter?
(11:16) Effects of signage
(12:08) Senate Bill 4182
(15:50) Can patients help?
(16:56) De-escalation techniques
(17:41) Tulsa, OK hospital shooting

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In our new series White Coat Radicals, Jane talks to Dr. Marc Boom, the physician CEO of Houston Methodist, about vaccine mandates, politicized medicine, and the radicalization of medical professionals during the COVID pandemic.

(00:13) Introduction to Dr. Boom
(01:00) Why support the mandate?
(03:21) Why did some employees refuse?
(07:30) Town halls
(09:46) Lawsuit
(12:03) Allowed exemptions
(13:08) Science and compliance disconnect
(16:22) Misinformation consequences
(17:25) How do you fight misinformation?

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In our continuing series "What Are We Missing?" host Dr. Jane Caldwell speaks with Dr. David Greenwald, director of clinical gastroenterology and endoscopy at Mount Sinai hospital in New York City about about missing diagnoses in colorectal cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic.

(00:13) Introduction
(00:49) Komodo Health study and decreased screening and diagnoses
(02:39) Types of screening, preps, and procedures
(05:08) At-home testing
(07:31) Patient history and screening types
(09:00) Colorectal cancer screening backlog
(11:58) Disparity in colorectal cancer diagnoses
(14:35) Health system screening programs
(17:39) Colorectal cancer in young adults

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Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a preschool teacher experiences symptoms of a respiratory infection but her test results are surprising. What is making this young woman so ill? Tune in to test your diagnostic skills.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:23) The Case

(01:17) The Evidence

(02:41) The Return Visit

(04:41) The Second Return Visit

(05:14) The Diagnosis

(06:09) The Preschool Problem

(07:12) The Preschool Solution

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In this episode, On Medical Grounds host, Dr. Jane Caldwell speaks with Dr. James Januzzi, Hutter Family Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and staff cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. They discuss what we’ve missed in cardiac care due to pressures from the COVID pandemic, and what we can do to turn this trend around.(00:00) Introduction to Dr. James Januzzi(00:43) Fewer people seeking cardiology care in the pandemic(02:46) Data on missed cardiac surgeries(04:06) Long-term effects of delayed cardiac treatment(05:22) COVID-19 collateral damage(07:17) Heart attack symptoms(08:20) Curing hospital hesitation(09:40) Cardiac symptoms in long COVID 

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Have you ever wondered why some patients have better access to healthcare than others? Today we’re speaking with Dr. Christopher Colbert, the assistant program director of the emergency medicine residency at the University of Illinois about healthcare disparities that affect access to care and what can be done to address this problem.

(00:00) Introduction to Dr. Chris Colbert
(01:25) Disparity in vaccinations - Chicago, IL
(04:50) Vaccine disparity accommodations - Chicago, IL
(06:26) Other ways the pandemic has affected healthcare disparity
(08:43) Number one problem
(10:50) Dr. Colbert's number one wish for healthcare
(13:18) Summary

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