SPEAK UP AND STAY ALIVE PATIENT SAFETY RADIO

Have you had your sprinkle today? Pat exposes the health dangers associated with talcum powder. Women, take heed. Find out about the ovarian cancer link. Guest Emily Wallace, author of the book Scarred For Life shares her brutal childhood of abandonment and abuse with a message – Speak Up! And are fitness trackers safe to wear?...

Shocking News! Did you know that one out of every two surgeries involves a medication error? Pat shares new findings and offers solutions. Guest, Morgan Gleason – a teenager with a rare disease shares how her health crisis allowed her to become a patient experience advocate and speaker. And the boys invite some guests to play...

Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a Harvard-trained physician shares his opiate addiction and the prevalence of addiction in the medical community in this candid interview with Pat Rullo.  Plus why is brain cancer on the rise in young children? Turn off your cell phone and find out why.

Dr. Peter Grinspoon, a Harvard-trained physician shares his opiate addiction and the prevalence of addiction in the medical community in this candid interview with Pat Rullo.  He currently practices as a primary care physician at an inner city clinic in Boston. He is on staff at Mass General Hospital...

Guest Brooke Billingsley CEO of Perception Strategies shares the concept of healthcare mystery shoppers and how they help hospitals improve the patient experience.

Is this normal? Pat shares a recent hospital encounter where the receptionist chomped bagels and strawberry schmear while sporting long dangly earrings, a faux crystal tiara, a low cut top and colorful tattoos. Shocking but tolerable until she spoke rudely and abruptly. Could this really be the new normal? Brooke Billingsley from Perception Strategies shares the concept...

Why do doctors get sued? Do they fit a specific profile? Pat reveals the most recent Medscape Malpractice Report with an eye toward the physician side of the ordeal. Guest Kim Goldberg shares her journey with Hepatitis C. She is cured thanks to a clinical trial, but no thanks to the drug prices of $1000...

Are patient satisfaction surveys killing us? Why is opioid use on the rise? Do patient satisfaction surveys have anything to do with it? Pat digs into this little known health hazard. Debra Fry, the mother of a teen suicide, explains why she believes the WiFi in her daughter’s school was to blame. The boys play...

Award-winning poet Kim Goldberg never thought she would live to see a cure for Hepatitis C. When the cure arrived and Kim reaped the victory, it gave her the poem of a lifetime. That poem has now become her seventh book: Undetectable. In it, she documents her Hepatitis C journey using a Japanese literary style called...

What is it like to live in your car in order to protect your health? Pat shares an email from a listener whose health is deteriorating due to the damaging frequencies from cell towers, smart meters, and other wireless devices and is now forced to wander the country in search of refuge. Guest Alana Sheeren,...