Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the challenge of scale up and task shifting in the face of the HIV epidemic.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the need for self-sufficiency in the U.S. for training medical personnel.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Fitzhugh Mullan, MD Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan of George Washington University discusses the social and economic costs of the emigration of physicians from developing countries to the U.S., U.K. and Australia.

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses the physician's role in consumer-driven health care as elaborated in her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses applying consumer-driven health care to the U.S. health care system as argued in her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillioin Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Cathleen Margolin, PhD Guest: Regina Herzlinger, PhD Professor Regina Herzlinger of Harvard Business School discusses her new book, Who Killed Health Care? America's $2 Trillion Medical Problem - And The Consumer-Driven Cure

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Nina Gentile, MD Dr. Shira Johnson speaks with Dr. Nina Gentile about the development of NIH-funded NETT, the Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network, which is underway ay Temple University.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Nina Gentile, MD Nationwide, about 15 million adults and children are seen in emergency departments annually for acute neurological emergencies. Because of the delay in seeing a specialist, time is lost. All practicing Emergency Room physicians have had experiences where in some cases, the outcome has significant morbidity, or in the worse scenario, the outcome has been fatal.

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD Angry, resentful, emotionally labile, manipulative; does that sound like the behavior of your patients, or even your staff?

Host: Shira Johnson, MD Guest: Lawrence Robbins, MD Any doctor who has an office practice encounters patients with refractory headaches. How do you manage these patients, what medications and therapies work, and when do you refer?