Second Opinion LIVE!

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Second Opinion LIVE! episodes

June 09, 2010 Letters to a Young Doctor
Guest: Ram Gordon, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

In this rebroadcast of the Wednesday, June 9th show, your hosts talk with Dr. Ram Gordon, who published an article recently on the remarkable relationship from early in his career that started with a letter from a patient. Plus: tattoos that detect glucose levels and other high tech developments, donuts, your health and the government.
30 min
May 27, 2010 The Physician Without an OFF-Button
Guest: Hugh Montgomery, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

In this rebroadcast of the 5/24 show, guest Dr. Hugh Montgomery, ultra-marathoner, sky-diver, mountaineer, writer, world-record holder, and professor of intensive care medicine who discovered a gene for fitness, slows down long enough to talk to our hosts. Plus: did Dr. J. Craig Venter create synthetic life? And can you make a safer hot dog?
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May 26, 2010 The Physician Without an OFF-Button
Guest: Hugh Montgomery, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

In this rebroadcast of the 5/24 show, guest Dr. Hugh Montgomery, ultra-marathoner, sky-diver, mountaineer, writer, world-record holder, and professor of intensive care medicine who discovered a gene for fitness, slows down long enough to talk to our hosts. Plus: did Dr. J. Craig Venter create synthetic life? And can you make a safer hot dog?
30 min
May 13, 2010 Career Day: Assessing Your Life and Practice in the Clinical Profession
Guest: Neil Baum, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matt Birnholz welcome this week's guests to talk about your practice and career: Dr. Neil Baum, author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically and Tim Rush, whose job-finder platform for healthcare professionals powers ReachMD's new Career Center. Plus, Believe it Not! an Indian yogi who hasn't had anything to eat or drink in 70 years.
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May 12, 2010 Career Day: Assessing Your Life and Practice in the Clinical Profession
Guest: Neil Baum, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matt Birnholz welcome this week's guests to talk about your practice and career: Dr. Neil Baum, author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice: Ethically, Effectively, Economically and Tim Rush, whose job-finder platform for healthcare professionals powers ReachMD's new Career Center. Plus, Believe it Not! an Indian yogi who hasn't had anything to eat or drink in 70 years.
30 min
April 29, 2010 World Wide Medicine: Globetrotting and Crowdsourcing
Guest: Mark Pendergrast
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Hosts Drs. Michael Greenberg and Matt Birnholz interview Mark Pendergrast, author of the new book Inside the Outbreaks: the Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The Second Opinion Live hosts also discuss new research on salt, chocolate, and a patient who's opened his case to the Internet and the wisdom of crowds. Plus, can martial arts teach senior citizens how to fall?
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April 28, 2010 World Wide Medicine: Globetrotting and Crowdsourcing
Guest: Mark Pendergrast
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Hosts Drs. Michael Greenberg and Matt Birnholz interview Mark Pendergrast, author of the new book Inside the Outbreaks: the Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The Second Opinion Live hosts also discuss new research on salt, chocolate, and a patient who's opened his case to the Internet and the wisdom of crowds. Plus, can martial arts teach senior citizens how to fall?
30 min
April 15, 2010 A Doctor's Right to Help Patients Die
Guest: Gerald Metz, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Second Opinion Live speaks with the new medical director of the Final Exit Network, Dr. Gerald Metz. Dr. Metz has assumed this role as the former medical director has temporarily stepped aside pending the outcome of legal issues related to investigations and court issues in several states. Final Exit Network is an organization that provides "exit guides" to assist terminally ill people who want to "end their time on Earth."

Other topics include discussion of recent court cases related to patenting human genes, an electronic nose, bomb disposal teams in the operating room and the ReachMD Poll.
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April 14, 2010 A Doctor's Right to Help Patients Die
Guest: Gerald Metz, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD

Second Opinion Live speaks with the new medical director of the Final Exit Network, Dr. Gerald Metz. Dr. Metz has assumed this role as the former medical director has temporarily stepped aside pending the outcome of legal issues related to investigations and court issues in several states. Final Exit Network is an organization that provides "exit guides" to assist terminally ill people who want to "end their time on Earth."

Other topics include discussion of recent court cases related to patenting human genes, an electronic nose, bomb disposal teams in the operating room and the ReachMD Poll.
30 min
April 01, 2010 Curiouser and Curiouser: Origins of Medicine's Myths and Mysteries
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: Sherry Seethaler, PhD

Hosts Drs. Michael Greenberg and Matt Birnholz are joined by guest Dr. Sherry Seethaler, author of the recently published book Curious Folks Ask: 162 Real Answers on Amazing Inventions, Fascinating Products and Medical Mysteries — and our hosts try to understand some of the origins of several medical myths and mysteries. They also discuss pill popping in the military, the explosion of Health Information Acronyms - and more! This is the one-year anniversary of Second Opinion Live — don't miss it!
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