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    Max McCoy Explores his Genoma 
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    My Greatest Challenges, My Greatest Gifts 
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    Mental Health: Evaluation, Detection, Treatment 

Who Are We?

Powerful Patient is a program focusing on issues of interest to people with complex medical issues or disabilities, and those seeking a diagnosis. Our goal is to empower you with information that will make your conversation with your doctors richer and more focused. Information here — or on any internet site — should never replace conversations with your own doctors, but will hopefully provide you with background and context that will make those conversations go better.

In addition to the shows indexed under our new format, there are five years of broadcasts still being moved forward. Click here for the index to the older archive (before 2012). http://powerfulpatient.org/archive

Hosts

Joyce Graff Mike Lawing

What is Prune Belly Syndrome?

June 6, 2013


Prune Belly Syndrome (PBS) or Eagle-Barrett syndrome is a group of birth defects including urethral malformation. We talk with four volunteers working to raise awareness of PBS.

Finding Peace from Wartime PTSD

May 30, 2013


After 13 years away, Christal finally decided it was time to reconnect with her father and work to understand his strength and will to survive – and her own.

I am Arnold Bradshaw

May 23, 2013


Diane Bradshaw stood by her husband as he battled for five years with Alzheimer’s, keeping a daily log of his care and the physical toll of the disease.

How to Cope Better in Cancerville

May 16, 2013


Coping with his own emotions, Dr. Penzer concluded that cancer is not only a dreaded diagnosis, but a place with its own culture, customs, language, confusions.

Something many Doctors do not Know About

May 11, 2013

  The Exhibit Hall in the San Diego Convention Center is huge. It covers an area equal to nine or ten football fields. Recently when the American Urological Association held its annual meeting the 18,000 or so attendees streamed through the exhibit hall looking at the latest robotic surgical devices and various tools of the [...]

There’s an app for it — controlling STDs among young people

May 9, 2013


Joyce and Mike speak with Ramin Bastani, CEO of the company Qpid.me, which has a free mobile app designed to help control sexually transmitted diseases among young people.

Cancer Care in Germany

May 2, 2013


Mike and Joyce speak with Berit Eberhardt, Division head for Kidney Cancer at the House of Life (Das Lebenshaus) in Germany.

Optimal Wellbeing

April 29, 2013

An easy way to think of optimal wellbeing might be to envision a three-legged stool, says Heather Reed. “The three legs include physical activity, nutrition and that underappreciated component missing from too many Americans’ lives – stress management, or a healthy mental state,” she says. Good advice on stress management from Heather and Dr. Matt Mumber.

H.B. 609 – The Cancer Treatment Fairness Act of NC

April 27, 2013

Dear Fellow Travelers: I’m attaching some information about a bill that is working its way through the North Carolina state legislature. This bill entitled “H.B. 609 – The Cancer Treatment Fairness Act of NC” would update antiquated insurance laws to ensure that all chemotherapy, regardless of form, will be accessible and affordable to cancer patients. [...]

Juliet Ibrahim fighting kidney cancer in Africa

April 25, 2013


Juliet Ibrahim, a successful actress and model in Ghana, West Africa, created the Juliet Ibrahim Foundation to fight kidney cancer in Ghana and throughout Africa.