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Sunday House Call, #431, March 10, 2013
Sunday House Call, #431, March 10, 2013 Topics today include: Your views on what life support mesures you would want, HRT, colonoscopy, when to refer to a specialist, signs of a child experiencing respiratory distress, spiking blood pressure, varicose vein therapies, Right bundle branch block, reflux disease, and artificial sweetners
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Sunday House Call, #429, February 10, 2013
Sunday House Call, #429, February 10, 2013 Topics today include: Insurance company screening tests may cause harm, shoulder and muscle pain, shingles, cough-induced syncope (fainting and loss of consciousness), rash developed in hospital, and questions about Splenda.
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Sunday House Call, #428, February 3, 2013: Getting ready for Bad Pharma
Sunday House Call, #428, February 3, 2013 Topics today include: Dr. Ben Goldacre’s new book Bad Pharma and his op-ed in the New York Times, hip surgery complications, blood in the stool and dizziness after eating
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Sunday House Call, #427, January 13, 2013
Sunday House Call, #427, January 13, 2013 Topics today include: Commendatory about the recent flu epidemic, and the fact that only 43% of Ottawa Hospital health and support staff have had the flu shot, and now have to take time off… because they have the flu! And this is putting increased strain on those who…
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Sunday House Call, #426, December 30, 2012
Sunday House Call, #426, December 30, 2012 Topics today include: A woman with hair loss, treatment for atrial fibrillation and what is ablation, loss of vertebral bone height in a 37 year-old woman, and right -sided neck pain
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Sunday House Call, #425, December 23, 2012
Sunday House Call, #425, December 23, 2012 Topics today include: How soon a Shingles infection can you get a shingles vaccine?, More nonsense abotu starch blockers for weight loss, treatment options for breast cancer, and blood and imaging tests to determine if a bone is iinfected.
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Sunday House Call, #424, December 16, 2012: Special edition on atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in athletes with Dr. Michael Gollob
Sunday House Call, #424, December 16, 2012 Special edition on atrial fibrillation and sudden cardiac death in athletes Dr. Michael Gollob is a native of Toronto,Ontario, and obtained an undergraduate degree in molecular genetics at the University of Toronto, graduating as a Gold Medalist. He then entered the field of medicine and is now a…
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Sunday House Call, #423, December 9, 2012
Sunday House Call, #423, December 9, 2012 Topics today include: Doctor Dworkin discusses new findings in genetics, which show that all human genetic code has errors, but that doesn’t guarantee someone may get a genetic disease as a result, and the impact such knowledge may have on medical insurance. Your calls about umbilcal hernia, Korsakov’s…
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Sunday House Call, #422, December 2, 2012
Sunday House Call, #422, December 2, 2012 Topics today include: I discuss the preconceptions we have about certain claims when it comes to products or medicine, and how we try to justify them, even when the evidence shows the claims are wrong. He also takes your calls and answers your medical questions about a 20-year-old…