Dr. Barry Dworkin

  • House Calls, #1007, March 22, 2026: Keep your hands to yourself!

    An opinion piece written by Dr. Phoebe Friesen, Director of the Medical Ethics and Health Law course at McGill’s medical school in this week’s Toronto Star discusses the unethical practice of medical students performing pelvic exams on anesthetized/unconscious surgical patients without explicit consent to do so. This is a practice that was banned by the…

  • Wednesday House Call July 26, 2017

    Wednesday House Call  July 26, 2017 Dr Barry Dworkin joins Brian Lilley to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today: Diet fads and the usual obligatory lack of scientific evidence with the stories, Your calls: Lyme disease transmission does not occur between people vegan diets and the over exaggeration and false claims of its…

  • New understanding of cause of restless leg syndrome may lead to new treatments

    Madely Health Headlines Commentary for May , 2013 [display_podcast] Source: Restless legs syndrome, insomnia and brain chemistry: A tangled mystery solved?