A Book and a Chat with Dr Steven R Feldman

My guest today is Dr Steven R Feldman is a professor of dermatology, pathology, and public health sciences at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. After taking a bachelor’s degree with a focus in chemistry at the University of Chicago he went onto to study dermatopathology with a mission is to improve the care of patients with skin disease. Dr. Feldman’s chief clinical interest is psoriasis.

After over 400 articles in peer-reviewed journals and giving over 600 invited lectures to dermatology groups and organizations, Dr Feldman has taken his experiences and produced and almost biographical book “Compartments: How the Brightest, Best Trained, and Most Caring People Can Make Judgments That are Completely and Utterly Wrong.”

In Compartments, readers journey into conflicts in healthcare and other groups and organizations, uncovering strange behaviors and hidden truths. These stories explain how separations and borders cause conflict between groups of people:

First, there are things in other groups that we don’t see;
Secondly, there are things we do see that we shouldn’t trust;
Thirdly, our perceptions are controlled by the context in which we make observations.

Readers will learn:
• Why medicines stop working
• How tanning beds are addictive
• Why some doctors appear clueless and uncaring to their peers
• How people in the health insurance industry and drug companies aren’t all “bad”
• How people in other countries are more like Americans than we are led to believe

Dr. Feldman wrote Compartments for people tired of animosity between groups, for business leaders who want to better understand their customers’ perspectives or reduce tension between divisions within their company, and also for book enthusiasts who want something thought provoking to discuss.

The People’s Pharmacy calls Compartments “a brilliant analysis of why doctors and patients so often misunderstand each other. The principles Dr. Feldman describes apply broadly in many areas beyond medicine.”

“Provocative and often brilliant,” is how Michael Sugrue, Ph.D., Professor of History and Chairman of the History Department at Ave Maria University, describes the book.

“Dr. Feldman courageously applies his paradigm of conceptual ‘compartments’ beyond medicine to contemporary political conflicts, searching for new, more hopeful and productive ways of engaging with previously intractable conflicts. Regardless of occupational or political loyalties, all will benefit from reading Compartments.”

While based on medical experiences the same views and concepts can relate to anybodies work place as well as their own life.

So listen now and share an interesting, and entertaining show as I chat with my special guest today on A Book and a Chat with Dr Steven R Feldman

Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Dr Christopher Otiko

Dr Christopher Otiko has has lived on three continents (Africa, Europe and North America,) and has now been a guest on “A Book and a Chat”.

While he has written a a semi autobiographical book “LOST IN THE USA” it is only now that he is finaly embarking on what I expect to be a long and successful medical thriller writer.

In his book “Santa” , which as we learned is the first in a whole series of books, Dr Otiko takes his own experiences from his time living in London, the knowledge and anecdotes from his medical background and mixes them with the strong female character that one might find in a Sidney Sheldon book.

The result is "Santa" a new medical thriller whose hero is Kim Kramer, a white American female medical student, whose London internship places her in a whirlwind of action adventure, murder, lies and conspiracy. As well as the murder and thriller part there is a romance theme running though the book as well as a sprinkling of educational medical knowledge a cocktail that will please readers of all ages and sexes.

The book also provides unique insights into the British medical system, which is quite different from the American medical education system. The characters are already demanding a second in the series and Dr Christopher shared with us that there are already eight or nne planned and thought out ready to feed the demanding reader.

As I said this book is one that will appeal to everybody and I can see the clamoring for a follow up will have Dr Christopher Otiko soon creating the second third and fourth books for us to read and enjoy.

So listen now and share an interesting, and entertaining show as I chat with my special guest today on A Book and a Chat with Dr Christopher Otiko

Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Dr Diane Hassan

I get asked a lot about coming from England to America, how far it is to travel, time it takes, the fact I haven’t lost my accent and even what I think of America. But for me it was just 3000miles and at least the language is the same, okay more or less the same. But imagine how it was for my guest Dr Diane Hassan travelling from South Alabama to Bagdad about 10,000 miles to a totally different country and climate. This was back in the 70’s before Saddam, she met her now husband at University and moved to Iraq to be with him.

Diane’s travels, her life in Iraq and her and her families eventual escape after an attempted assassination of her husband during Saddam's purge following Desert Storm are detailed in her book “ANGELS AMONG US. . .EVEN IN IRAQ”.

Diane’s early days were one of constant learning; she was American wife of a prominent member of Saddam Hussein's political hierarchy, studying medicine, her husband, protected from perhaps some of the harsher side to Iraq in those early days. Those early days changed as Saddan came to power, stories of people going missing, worries about saying the wrong thing to the wrong person.

About “Angels Among Us… Even in Iraq" (taken from Amazon)

Angels Among Us . . . Even in Iraq is a fascinating story of love and survival, of how people can overcome any obstacle to fulfill a dream. In a highly entertaining fashion, the American wife of a prominent member of Saddam Hussein's political hierarchy chronicles her life in Iraq until she and her family dramatically escape after an attempted assassination of her husband during Saddam's purge following Desert Storm.

Dr. Taha Al Baka, a former Iraqi government minister, comments, "If you are among those Americans who care about their democratic freedoms, constitutional government and due process of law, then you should read this book. You will have a greater appreciation of your country and a greater resolve to guard the basic principles on which it was founded."

The story took over seven years to write, but is obviously written with passion, from her own experiences, not from second hand information about the situation in Iraq.

As Diane shared with us while telling the story of her husband’s escape from assignation, there are angels everywhere, and many not dressed in white playing harps, they appear in all places at many different times, under Saddam’s time of terror on Iraq.

As one reviewer wrote of the book…

ANGELS AMONG US is a way of holding a spotlight not just on Iraq but our search for good in a world where we might be prone to believe it exists. Through this book and the journey that Dianne and her family were able to go through and endure we are able to see that there is goodness and love everywhere.

So listen now and share an interesting,and entertaining thirty minutes with my guest Diane Hassan

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Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Lorene Burkhart

If you have ever thought about writing a book yourself, then my guest on todays "A Book and a Chat" shows it's never too late to start writing.

Lorene Burkhart finally wrote her first book when she was seventy, since that time she has completed six books, covering her life growing up on a farm, children’s stories and the book we mainly chatted about today ”Sick of Doctors? Then Do Something About It”.

Let’s face it, we are all patients from the time we’re born until the time we die. The question is: How do we as patients become empowered in a medical culture that historically leaves us doing what the doctor says?

In this groundbreaking book, Lorene challenges each of us to enter the era of empowered patients by letting go of past practices and embracing outcome-based medical services. Being accountable for one's own body and health is a huge step toward improved medical relationships. She rejects the old authoritarian system of "handing it over" to a doctor as one that is no longer appropriate or wise, and that made its exit when the Internet made its entrance. Using a variety of resources as a guide, she encourages patients to be their own medical advocates with the ultimate reward being their own good health.

Items like items to prepare before visiting your doctor, questions to be asked, even remembering to say thank you were discussed fascinating show.

Though in her mid seventies, Lorene I’m sure will be continue producing books for all ages, from the young to the not so young.

So sit back and enjoy toady’s “A Book and a Chat with Lorene Burkhart”

Barry

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