Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the unique history and evolution of the psychiatric field, and some of the major paradigm changes in clinical practice for psychiatrists over the decades.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the use of electroconvulsive therapy today.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Edward Shorter, PhD Historian Doctor Edward Shorter of the University of Toronto and author of "Shock Therapy: The History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness" discusses the history of the use of electroconvulsive therapy for mental illness.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Jonathon Moreno, PhD Dr. Johnathan Moreno speaks with host Dr. Maurie Pickard about this year’s ground breaking research in the reprogramming of skin cells to act like stem cells. They also discuss the need for new embryonic cell lines that continue to be the gold standard. Continued progress in this area of research, however, is likely to be slowed due to the denial of federal funds, preventing the institution of guidelines of the National Institute of Health to facilitate the wide and rapid exchange of laboratory discoveries.

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Jonathon Moreno, PhD Dr. Johnathan Moreno discusses the implantation of DNA from two parents into an egg that has its nucleus removed to prevent diseases caused by genetic variants in the cytoplasmic mitochondria. Who is the mother? Join host, Dr. Maurie Pickard for an interesting discussion.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Sandeep Jauhar, MD How does the process of training to become a physician change us and our preconceptions of doctoring and medicine? And how has our understanding of that process shifted over time? Cardiologist and author Dr. Sandeep Jauhar joins host Dr. Leslie Lundt to discuss his career as a physician writer and his chronicle of a grueling time, Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation (2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Taner Edis, PhD Why is the US more religious than Western Europe? Why does stem-cell research stir up so much controversy? ReachMD Book Club host Dr. Leslie Lundt welcomes author Taner Edis, PhD to discuss his book, Science and Nonbelief.

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Taner Edis, PhD Richard Dawkins is famous for saying science supports religious nonbelief, but many good scientists, such as Francis Collins, are religious and strongly oppose Dawkins's position. Where do you stand on this question? Physics professor and author Taner Edis, PhD discusses his book, Science and Nonbelief with host Dr. Leslie Lundt on the ReachMD Book Club.

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: James King, MD Retailers like Wal-Mart, Walgreens and CVS/Caremark are moving into the businesss of providing health care, but doctors are worried. With this movement toward retail health care well under way as hundreds of clinics open nationally, Dr. James King of the American Academy of Family Physicians tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen about the right model and what doctors could be advocating to ensure patient care is not compromised.

Host: Bruce Japsen Guest: James King, MD From hotels to cars to their favorite college basketball team, the rating seems to be the measure of choice to tell the public who is good, bad, right or wrong. Dr. James King, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians tells the Chicago Tribune's Bruce Japsen how this rating system is coming at doctors, and the mixed views on its emergence.