Medical Necessity Podcast
What’s your medical nightmare story? If you live in the United States, you’re well aware that getting good care can sometimes feel like a roll of the dice. Here on Medical Necessity, Dr. Gina PT is your guide to cautionary medical tales to raise awareness and help change our broken system.
Episodes
Why are falls so preventable, yet responsible for so many deaths each year?
In this episode we welcome Dr. Amanda Bentley, whose passion for working with elders has made her a strong voice in the community about falls risk and prevention.
Amber Bentley is the Director of Therapy for The Getachew Knee Clinic in Columbus, Ohio, an OP center offering a holistic approach to treating knee pain and arthritis. This allows people to avoid ...
In which Shannon and Gina introduce themselves and spill all the tea about both the frustrations of the Physical Therapy profession and why all y'all should see one!
Medical Necessity returns right when we need it. C'mon, let's talk about a hot wellness topic: Chinese Medicine. Think it's only about acupuncture? Think bigger! Dr. Gina, PT, interviews Stacey Kent, a practitioner and healer who gives us the lowdown on what it's about.
More about Stacey Kent and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
For Labor Day, we kick back and talk about our beloved pets, Pookie the cat and Winston the dog; drums; and when Peter Gabriel was in Genesis.
Our first guests! Katrina and Dr. Gina interview a couple who share their story that tackles the high cost of emergency care and how the new price "transparency" you might have read about is not so simple. Plus, we share some information to hopefully be of assistance when illness or injury strikes.
Resources from this episode:
Time Magazine article by Stephen Brill: "Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us."
Katrina and Dr. Gina, PT conclude their discussion on medical experts with Part 2. How even experts who study experts can't agree, how easy it is to fool experts, and what is tacit knowledge? So should we just give up? No! The key is to mitigate risk and ask the right questions about advice. They continue with tools on how to separate more reliable vs less reliable information from the David H. Freedman Book, Wrong: Why Experts Kee...
Following expert medical advice can be a matter of life or death. All those experts--who can we trust? In Part 1 of this episode about medical experts, Katrina and Dr. Gina take a deep dive. We have some discussion on what makes up expertise, and also share our personal stories of when the doctor was wrong-o. We also talk about why we need to rely on experts, the problem with blindly trusting them, and celebrity experts with opinio...
During the initial days of shelter-in-place, we--Katrina and Dr. Gina--were feeling contemplative about everything happening in the U.S. and personally trying to make sense of it all. In this episode, we examine traditional notions of productivity in terms of person and their workplace. Next, we get real and ask: What makes you feel productive at a time when all rules are out the window? How do you measure your personal worth? We w...
Tired of the flood of medical misinformation out there? We're here to help! Meet Katrina, a personal trainer, and Dr. Gina, a physical therapist, as they team up to guide you through the confusion and help empower you through mind, body, and spirit.
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