Wednesday House Call,  May 30, 2018

Dr Barry Dworkin joins Brian Lilley to discuss the latest health stories of the week.

Today:

No one wants to talk about health care during election.

Your calls:

• Workup for extreme fatigue.
• A woman who received Zostavax 6 years ago is wondering whether she should get the new vaccine to prevent shingles called Shingrix
• Common causes of pain in the legs In an 8-year-old boy
• Chronic urinary tract infections in a woman with Parkinson’s disease. What is the appropriate antibiotic prophylaxis if the antibiotic fails? What should she do?
• A man who had open-heart surgery hurts his neck and shoulder. He wonders if this is linked to the surgery.
• A man who is in the process of quitting smoking. He has switched to vaping and wonders which of the two is the lesser risk, cigarette smoking versus the use of a vapor device.