Second Opinion LIVE!
Whether you're a dermatologist in Seattle, a family practitioner in New Mexico, or a trauma surgeon in New York City, the issues in health care today just can't wait. That's why you turn to ReachMD for Second Opinion Live: we're here to give you a chance to be heard.Join two of our seasoned physician hosts, Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg, for the next Second Opinion Live, airing on ReachMD.Do you have a topic suggestion or a story idea? Share them with us at info@reachmd.com.
Episodes
November 23, 2011
Guest: Shellie Williams, MD
Guest: Reed Tuckson, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Currently more than 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, a number that could triple by 2050 unless advances are made in early detection, treatments and prevention. Second Opinion Live hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matt Birnholz discuss the many benefits fo...
Guest: Reed Tuckson, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Currently more than 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, a number that could triple by 2050 unless advances are made in early detection, treatments and prevention. Second Opinion Live hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matt Birnholz discuss the many benefits fo...
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Guest: Glenn Geelhoed, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Dr. Glenn Geelhoed is a marathoner, photographer, and big game hunter, who has been on over 200 international medical missions to developing countries, and helped broker peace between warring Sudanese tribes. He talks with Second Opinion Live hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matthew Birnholz about what he has learned f...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Dr. Glenn Geelhoed is a marathoner, photographer, and big game hunter, who has been on over 200 international medical missions to developing countries, and helped broker peace between warring Sudanese tribes. He talks with Second Opinion Live hosts Dr. Michael Greenberg and Dr. Matthew Birnholz about what he has learned f...
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April 27, 2011
Guest: Alan Roberts, MD
Guest: James Levine, MD, PhD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Dr. Matt Birnholz hosts this program solo, as his co-host, Dr. Michael Greenberg, recovers from knee surgery. This week, Dr. Birnholz considers what the physician learns when he finds himself in the position of the patient. This week's program includes an interview with Dr. Alan Rob...
Guest: James Levine, MD, PhD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Dr. Matt Birnholz hosts this program solo, as his co-host, Dr. Michael Greenberg, recovers from knee surgery. This week, Dr. Birnholz considers what the physician learns when he finds himself in the position of the patient. This week's program includes an interview with Dr. Alan Rob...
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April 13, 2011
Guest: Gayle Sulik, PhD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Pink ribbon campaigns have been highly successful in rallying recognition and funding around breast cancer. But our guest thinks the cheerful image of such campaigns whitewashes realities of the disease, both in terms of statistics and patient experiences. Plus: Warnings about the drug cocktail known as “bath salts,” and a ...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Pink ribbon campaigns have been highly successful in rallying recognition and funding around breast cancer. But our guest thinks the cheerful image of such campaigns whitewashes realities of the disease, both in terms of statistics and patient experiences. Plus: Warnings about the drug cocktail known as “bath salts,” and a ...
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Guest: Evelyn J. Bromet, PhD
Guest: John D. Boice, ScD
Guest: Tsuyoshi Akiyama, MD, PhD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
This rebroadcast of the March 30th program continues analysis of the health issues in Japan following that country’s magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis, with a focus on two key healthcare issues— radiation danger an...
Guest: John D. Boice, ScD
Guest: Tsuyoshi Akiyama, MD, PhD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
This rebroadcast of the March 30th program continues analysis of the health issues in Japan following that country’s magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis, with a focus on two key healthcare issues— radiation danger an...
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March 16, 2011
Guest: John Howe, MD
Guest: Susan Briggs, MD, MPH
Guest: Makoto Iwahara, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
This program was originally broadcast live on March 16, 2011, and focuses on putting into context the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent ever-changing nuclear crisis in Japan, from a healthcare perspective. Our guests discuss by phone the cur...
Guest: Susan Briggs, MD, MPH
Guest: Makoto Iwahara, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
This program was originally broadcast live on March 16, 2011, and focuses on putting into context the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent ever-changing nuclear crisis in Japan, from a healthcare perspective. Our guests discuss by phone the cur...
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March 3, 2011
Guest: Sanjiv Chopra, MD, FACP
Guest: Herbert Chase, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg talk to Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, faculty dean of continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the book Doctor Chopra Says: Medical Facts & Myths Everyone Should Know, about medical research that changes so ...
Guest: Herbert Chase, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg talk to Dr. Sanjiv Chopra, faculty dean of continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School and co-author of the book Doctor Chopra Says: Medical Facts & Myths Everyone Should Know, about medical research that changes so ...
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February 16, 2011
Guest: Mary Cappello, PhD
Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Second Opinion Live looks at the future of robotics in medicine, with Dr. Joseph Kim; the naming of famous murmurs; and the pioneering work of endoscopist Dr. Chevalier Jackson, the subject of author Mary Cappello's book Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the...
Guest: Joseph Kim, MD, MPH
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Second Opinion Live looks at the future of robotics in medicine, with Dr. Joseph Kim; the naming of famous murmurs; and the pioneering work of endoscopist Dr. Chevalier Jackson, the subject of author Mary Cappello's book Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the...
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January 18, 2011
Guest: Anthony Alessi, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: Robert J. Egge
Dr. Anthony Alessi reports from Haiti, making his fifth trip there to mark the one-year anniversary of the magnitude 7 earthquake that precipitated a massive humanitarian and health crisis in that already-beleagured country. Also, Robert Egee, vice president of public policy and advocacy at the Azheimer's Association, intr...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Guest: Robert J. Egge
Dr. Anthony Alessi reports from Haiti, making his fifth trip there to mark the one-year anniversary of the magnitude 7 earthquake that precipitated a massive humanitarian and health crisis in that already-beleagured country. Also, Robert Egee, vice president of public policy and advocacy at the Azheimer's Association, intr...
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January 5, 2011
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest: Anthony Atala, MD
This week's guest is Dr. Anthony Atala, who oversees the world's largest lab devoted to bioengineering body parts, from inkjet-printed hearts to tiny livers, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He gives us an update from the cutting edge of medicine. Also, we get to the bottom line on how ...
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest: Anthony Atala, MD
This week's guest is Dr. Anthony Atala, who oversees the world's largest lab devoted to bioengineering body parts, from inkjet-printed hearts to tiny livers, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He gives us an update from the cutting edge of medicine. Also, we get to the bottom line on how ...
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December 21, 2010
Guest: Everett Winslow Lovrien, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
This week, hosts Drs. Matt Birnholz and Michael Greenberg wrap up 2010 with a look at the year's most notable research; as well as some notably retracted research, with Jef Akst of The Scientist; and talk with Dr. Everett Winslow Lovrien, whose book Doctor Guilt? looks at how thousands of hemophilia patients...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
This week, hosts Drs. Matt Birnholz and Michael Greenberg wrap up 2010 with a look at the year's most notable research; as well as some notably retracted research, with Jef Akst of The Scientist; and talk with Dr. Everett Winslow Lovrien, whose book Doctor Guilt? looks at how thousands of hemophilia patients...
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December 8, 2010
Guest: Jennifer Ackerman
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
On this week's program, hosts Dr. Matthew Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg welcome Jennifer Ackerman, author of Ah-Choo! The Uncommon Life of the Common Cold, to talk about the history of what we know about this most successful human pathogen. Plus, the "nudge": Britain's new kinder, gentler approach ...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
On this week's program, hosts Dr. Matthew Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg welcome Jennifer Ackerman, author of Ah-Choo! The Uncommon Life of the Common Cold, to talk about the history of what we know about this most successful human pathogen. Plus, the "nudge": Britain's new kinder, gentler approach ...
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November 23, 2010
Guest: Frank Britt
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Our guest is Frank Britt, president and CEO of medical education provider Pri-Med, with us to talk about Pri-Med's new Open Network initiative, designed to bring new models for delivering education to the practicing clinician. Plus: medical jargon. Do you talk up or down to your patients? Are there terms that should never b...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Our guest is Frank Britt, president and CEO of medical education provider Pri-Med, with us to talk about Pri-Med's new Open Network initiative, designed to bring new models for delivering education to the practicing clinician. Plus: medical jargon. Do you talk up or down to your patients? Are there terms that should never b...
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October 26, 2010
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest: Anna Dhody, MFS
Hosts Drs. Matt Birnholz and Michael Greenberg get into the Halloween spirit, with an interview with Anna Dhody, curator of the often macabre, always educational, Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Plus, they discucss the results of ReachMD's poll of healthcare professionals' opinions on he...
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest: Anna Dhody, MFS
Hosts Drs. Matt Birnholz and Michael Greenberg get into the Halloween spirit, with an interview with Anna Dhody, curator of the often macabre, always educational, Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Plus, they discucss the results of ReachMD's poll of healthcare professionals' opinions on he...
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October 14, 2010
Guest: Marc Abrahams
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
In this re-broadcast of the October 13th live show, we’ve invited Marc Abrahams, the editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and the mastermind behind the annual Ig-Nobel Prize, for science that makes people laugh, then makes them think. Plus: a few others making a difference in fields of science and medicine; and making a...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
In this re-broadcast of the October 13th live show, we’ve invited Marc Abrahams, the editor of the Annals of Improbable Research and the mastermind behind the annual Ig-Nobel Prize, for science that makes people laugh, then makes them think. Plus: a few others making a difference in fields of science and medicine; and making a...
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September 30, 2010
Guest: Judith Karp, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
In this show, Drs Birnholz and Greenberg talk Dr. Judith Karp, an authority on molecular mechanisms of leukemia and lymphoma, from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and chair of the Oncology Care Live virtual congress. Why a virtual conference? How does it work? What will attendees learn? Plus: the continuing debat...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
In this show, Drs Birnholz and Greenberg talk Dr. Judith Karp, an authority on molecular mechanisms of leukemia and lymphoma, from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and chair of the Oncology Care Live virtual congress. Why a virtual conference? How does it work? What will attendees learn? Plus: the continuing debat...
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September 16, 2010
Guest: Robert M. Golub, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Autumn is upon us in the medical community, and hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg turn their attention to medical education. They talk with Dr. Robert Golub, senior editor of JAMA, about the path from trainee to skilled physician and this year’s annual medical education-themed issue. Plus: The game "...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Autumn is upon us in the medical community, and hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg turn their attention to medical education. They talk with Dr. Robert Golub, senior editor of JAMA, about the path from trainee to skilled physician and this year’s annual medical education-themed issue. Plus: The game "...
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September 1, 2010
Guest: Rebecca Thomley, PhD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
In this rebroadcast of the September 1st show, Dr. Greenberg interviews Rebecca Thomley about the mental health situtation in New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Thomley runs a nonprofit relief organization that opened a walk-in mental health clinic in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Plus: DNA testi...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
In this rebroadcast of the September 1st show, Dr. Greenberg interviews Rebecca Thomley about the mental health situtation in New Orleans, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Dr. Thomley runs a nonprofit relief organization that opened a walk-in mental health clinic in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward. Plus: DNA testi...
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August 19, 2010
Guest: Sanjay Gupta, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, discusses the challenges in balancing the roles of physician and journalist, with host Dr. Matt Birnholz. Do we need ethical guidelines? And are the rules different in a disaster? Plus, Drs. Birnholz and Greenberg debate a controversial prenatal hormonal treatment, d...
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
CNN's chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, discusses the challenges in balancing the roles of physician and journalist, with host Dr. Matt Birnholz. Do we need ethical guidelines? And are the rules different in a disaster? Plus, Drs. Birnholz and Greenberg debate a controversial prenatal hormonal treatment, d...
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August 5, 2010
Guest: John Howe, MD
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Dr. John P. Howe, president and CEO of Project HOPE, gives hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg an update on Project HOPE's current efforts in Haiti and how you can still help. Plus: they report on the the placebo effect of very annoying music, and the most obese states in America.
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD
Host: Michael Greenberg, MD
Dr. John P. Howe, president and CEO of Project HOPE, gives hosts Dr. Matt Birnholz and Dr. Michael Greenberg an update on Project HOPE's current efforts in Haiti and how you can still help. Plus: they report on the the placebo effect of very annoying music, and the most obese states in America.
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