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Book Club

Join our hosts as they explore various genres in medical literature either for intellectual sustenance or for joy and entertainment. The ReachMD Book Club will introduce authors and topics to enliven and transform your reading experience. This series features a diverse array of medically-centered genres such as biographies and autobiographies, historicals, and contemporary fiction/non-fiction.

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God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage...

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2013/05/18

Host: John Russell, MD San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up there. Dr. Victoria Sweet ended up there herself, as a physician. And though she came for only a two-month stay, she remained for twenty

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God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage...

Book Club ·

2013/05/18

Host: John Russell, MD San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's Hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves - "anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care - ended up there. Dr. Victoria Sweet ended up there herself, as a physician. And though she came for only a two-month stay, she remained for

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Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most...

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2013/05/07

Host: John Russell, MD A maddened creature, frothing at the mouth, lunges at an innocent victim and, with a bite, transforms its prey into another raving monster. It's a scenario that underlies our darkest tales of supernatural horror, but its power derives from a very real virus, a deadly scourge known to mankind from our earliest days. In this fascinating exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy speak with host Dr. John Russell about the history, science, and

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The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit

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2013/05/01

Host: John Russell, MD Matthew Miller had just pedaled up a mountain pass. He was 20, a member of the University of Virginia triathlon club, so fit his resting pulse was 42! He was on top of the world in so many ways, in love, with dreams of attending medical school. And then, cycling along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, tragedy struck. The real story is not what happened, but what happened after. Host Dr. John Russell is joined by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Michael Vitez

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The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly...

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2013/04/18

Host: John Russell, MD An extraordinary yet almost unknown chapter in American history is revealed in this extensively researched exposé by author Matthew Algeo. On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend's yacht and was not heard from for five days. During that time, a team of doctors removed a cancerous tumor from the president's palate along with much of his upper jaw. When an enterprising reporter named E. J. Edwards exposed the secret operation, Cleveland denied

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Bringing Spirituality Into the Hospital

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2008/10/15

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Marc Galanter, MD Medicine and spirituality have always been linked, we have struggled as a profession with how to introduce spirituality and religion into the general hospital setting. Host Dr. Leslie Lundt discusses such a program with Dr. Mark Galanter, professor of psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine, and author of Spirituality and the Healthy Mind: Science, Therapy and the Need for Personal Meaning.

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Coping Strategies for Patients Growing up With...

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2008/07/28

Guest: Laurie Edwards Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Better technology and treatments mean that people with serious childhood illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and type one diabetes are reaching adulthood in unprecedented numbers. That means they are also struggling with college, relationships, fertility and employment. Laurie Edwards, a health journalist and author of Life Disrupted, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss these issues.

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Coping Strategies for Patients Growing up With...

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2008/07/28

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Laurie Edwards Better technology and treatments mean that people with serious childhood illnesses such as cystic fibrosis and type one diabetes are reaching adulthood in unprecedented numbers. That means they are also struggling with college, relationships, fertility and employment. Laurie Edwards, a health journalist and author of Life Disrupted, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss these issues.

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Statins & The Stanley Cup: a Patient's Challenges...

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2008/05/27

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Steve McKee Hear Steve McKee, author of the book, My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey, as he discusses why it was so difficult for him to make the decision to take a statin for his heart disease.

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Statins & The Stanley Cup: a Patient's Challenges...

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2008/05/27

Guest: Steve McKee Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Hear Steve McKee, author of the book, My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey, as he discusses why it was so difficult for him to make the decision to take a statin for his heart disease.

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My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey

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2008/05/27

Guest: Steve McKee Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Steve McKee's paternal grandfather died of a heart attack at age 53, his father died of a heart attack at age 50 and he discovered he had heart disease at the age of 52. Hear author Steve McKee as he discusses his experience with heart disease in his book, My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey.

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My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey

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2008/05/27

Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Guest: Steve McKee Steve McKee's paternal grandfather died of a heart attack at age 53, his father died of a heart attack at age 50 and he discovered he had heart disease at the age of 52. Hear author Steve McKee as he discusses his experience with heart disease in his book, My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey.

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Alice Stewart: The Woman Who Knew Too Much

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2008/05/21

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Gayle Greene, PhD How much do you know about the woman who first identified the cancer-causing effects of X-rays in pregnancy? British physician Dr. Alice Stewart was persecuted professionally and financially for her unpopular research. Dr. Gayle Greene, Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Scripps College, Claremont, California and author of The Woman Who Knew Too Much, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss Alice Stewart’s life.

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Alice Stewart: The Woman Who Knew Too Much

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2008/05/21

Guest: Gayle Greene, PhD Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD How much do you know about the woman who first identified the cancer-causing effects of X-rays in pregnancy? British physician Dr. Alice Stewart was persecuted professionally and financially for her unpopular research. Dr. Gayle Greene, Professor of Literature and Women’s Studies at Scripps College, Claremont, California and author of The Woman Who Knew Too Much, joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss Alice Stewart’s life.

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Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies

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2008/05/07

Guest: Masha Gessen Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies is the work of Moscow-based author and journalist, Masha Gessen. Ms. Gessen discusses her book, based in part upon her experience as a carrier of the BRCA gene, with host Dr. Michael Greenberg.

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Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies

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2008/05/07

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Masha Gessen Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies is the work of Moscow-based author and journalist, Masha Gessen. Ms. Gessen discusses her book, based in part upon her experience as a carrier of the BRCA gene, with host Dr. Michael Greenberg.

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When Doctors Become Patients: How Wounded Healers...

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2008/04/23

Guest: Robert Klitzman, MD Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Dr. Robert Klitzman , author of When Doctors Become Patients, discusses how by being on the other side of the stethoscope the doctor/patient may gain insight, empathy and a better understanding of the needs of those he treats. Join host Dr. Maurie Pickard to learn some of the first hand lessons Dr. Klitzman gained as a patient as well as those lessons learned by other physician patients who contributed to the research of this

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When Doctors Become Patients: How Wounded Healers...

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2008/04/23

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Robert Klitzman, MD Dr. Robert Klitzman , author of When Doctors Become Patients, discusses how by being on the other side of the stethoscope the doctor/patient may gain insight, empathy and a better understanding of the needs of those he treats. Join host Dr. Maurie Pickard to learn some of the first hand lessons Dr. Klitzman gained as a patient as well as those lessons learned by other physician patients who contributed to the research of this

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The Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for...

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2008/04/01

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Gary Small, MD Dr Gary Small is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and the Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a leading expert on memory and aging, joining host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss his latest book, The Longevity Bible.

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Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Part 2

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2008/03/21

Guest: Sandeep Jauhar, MD Host: Gary Kohn, MD Dr. Gary Kohn speaks with Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, physicist, cardiologist, medical writer, and director of the Heart Failure Program at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York regarding his book, Intern: A doctor's initiation.

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