Oct 22, 2010 | 27:30White Coat Black Art Sex, Lies, and Medical Mistakes show AudioWhite Coat Black Art Sex, Lies, and Medical Mistakes show Oct 22, 2010 | 27:30It's called Female Sexual Dysfunction.
And according to investigative journalist Ray Moynihan, the so-called disease is largely a creation of drug companies.
This week on White Coat, Black Art, Moynihan explains to host Dr. Brian Goldman, what happens when marketing meets medicine.
And more highlights from our town hall "To Err is Medicine".
Oct 8, 2010 | 27:30White Coat Black Art Pain Problem show AudioWhite Coat Black Art Pain Problem show Oct 8, 2010 | 27:30This week on White Coat, Black Art - the cruel and invisible puppet-master known as chronic pain. It costs Canadians an estimated 10 billion dollars a year in health care and lost productivity, and yet doctors are still very much playing a guessing game when it comes to how to alleviate it.
Oct 1, 2010 | 27:30White Coat Black Art Social Medicine show AudioWhite Coat Black Art Social Medicine show Oct 1, 2010 | 27:30About 1 in 6 people on the planet are participate in some form of social media - Twitter, myspace, Facebook or any of hundreds of similar sites. What happens when health professionals start to use social networking to connect with patients?
Sep 24, 2010 | 27:30White Coat Black Art MD Activism show AudioWhite Coat Black Art MD Activism show Sep 24, 2010 | 27:30There's a concept from the old world -- noblesse oblige. It means that with great privilege, comes great responsibility. You don't hear it much anymore, but in some quarters the spirit is still alive. This week on White Coat, Black Art - physicians who use their status for political leverage.
Sep 17, 2010 | 27:29White Coat Black Art Green Medicine show AudioWhite Coat Black Art Green Medicine show Sep 17, 2010 | 27:29There are three hospitals in the University Health Network in Toronto.
Together they produce 21,000 pounds of solid waste EVERY DAY.
Not to mention chemical, gas and air pollution - all parts of day-to-day medicine.
This week on White Coat, Black Art, Dr. Brian Goldman tours from operating room to dumpster....finding out just how good a hospital is at the three R's.
And also - cutting back a different type of hospital pollution - noise pollution.
Sep 15, 2010 | 27:30White Coat Black Art Telling Tales show AudioWhite Coat Black Art Telling Tales show Sep 15, 2010 | 27:30This is a tales from the front line of medicine show, where Dr. Brian Goldman looks at the need for health professionals to share what they do, balanced off against the need for patient privacy. This tension is clear in the tales told by Ray Wiss an ER doc in Sudbury who's written two books about his practice on the front lines, in Afghanistan.
Sep 10, 2010 | 27:30White Coat Black Art MS Controversy show 11 Sept 2010 AudioWhite Coat Black Art MS Controversy show 11 Sept 2010 Sep 10, 2010 | 27:30On the show this week, we're taking on the Zamboni treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, and the push-back against patient-driven medicine. It's a story that pits patient power against the highly entrenched views of the neurologists who treat MS. The more hype over the procedure, the less those doctors want to have anything to do with it. Are doctors right to argue against spending dollars doing research on an unproven treatment? Or, are they putting their egos in the way of progress?
