Roy Benaroch
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
You’d never believe people who told you they lived off air only, never eating. Yet one “Breatharian” couple received widespread media coverage on the internet, broadcast sites, and in print. Why are we so gullible? Learn how to think like a skeptic when reading news in any medium, remembering that while internet “clickbait” races continue to be faster and faster, real science is slow and steady.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Your patient is back in the emergency room with another "sinus headache," but the nurses think he's just after drugs. What's the real story? In finding out, you'll learn how physicians diagnose headaches; the differences between primary and secondary headaches; red flags doctors look for when determining their severity; and more.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This lecture's case involves an illness that's been around for millennia but which many of today's physicians have never seen. It involves a 10-year-old boy suffering from a rash that doesn't bother him, red-appearing eyes, and a cough. And the true culprit is one that could easily have been prevented.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
You're at the grocery and the person next to you suddenly collapses. What do you do? Here, learn how doctors (and laypeople) can use basic lifesaving steps to deal with a sudden catastrophe. Also, explore the methods physicians use to prevent health emergencies before they happen.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sometimes doctors make mistakes. As Dr. Benaroch guides you through the diagnosis of a patient with a case of recurrent hives, he reveals several powerful lessons for both doctors and patients. These include insisting on clear instructions and remembering that treating the disease is not the same as treating the patient.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
You're on an expedition in Antarctica. You're diagnosed with a problem that requires immediate emergency surgery, and there's only one person who can perform it: you. Use this real-life scenario from the Soviet Union's Sixth Antarctic Expedition in 1961 as an intriguing window into how doctors diagnose and treat this problem in less extreme, 21st-century circumstances.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Discover how a young man's painful calves lead to a surprising diagnosis. As you'll learn, sometimes even the most uncommon of complaints can signify the presence of a fairly common illness. You'll also discover why you should never underestimate the seriousness of this particular diagnosis.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While toxins are around us all the time and require a nuanced, sophisticated approach to understand, short and memorable headlines sell. Follow the fascinating media coverage of baby-food toxins and the new water system in Flint, MI, to discover the reasons for conflicting headlines and stories. Who got it right? And who got it so very wrong?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tina suffers from attacks of dizziness and is certain she has hypoglycemia, but doctors should never fall into the mental trap of starting a diagnosis with a false assumption. In this intriguing lecture, Dr. Benaroch shows you how physicians make expert diagnoses when one specific test isn't available.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In an ideal world, all medications would be available and affordable to those who need them. But the minutiae of prescription drug pricing can create a significant barrier. Learn about the unique role of the pharmacy benefit manager, how pharmaceutical companies work to keep generics out of the marketplace, and how gifts given by drug reps still influence doctors’ prescribing habits.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor Benaroch will lead you through the exercise of finding solid, credible answers to a question on all of our minds: What’s the best way to stay young and healthy? He’ll illustrate how the skeptic’s tools you’ve learned to use when reading or viewing media reports will help you answer this or any other health question. You’ll be surprised where the research takes you!
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The case here - a weak and listless baby - offers an illuminating window into how doctors treat sick infants diagnosed with this mystery condition (which has powerful roots in our genetic code). You'll learn how genes encode for proteins; the psychopathology of diseases caused by genetic structural changes; and more.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Learn how critical a complete medical history, a thorough physical exam, and collaboration between doctors can be to make a tricky diagnosis. Your patient: "Louisa," a woman who has suffered from abdominal pain for years. Does she have irritable bowel syndrome? Is it all just psychological? Or is it something else entirely?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explore from two perspectives the case of a patient with a mysterious illness. First, see how doctors diagnose his condition and work with the patient to prevent a medical emergency so old it's mentioned in the Bible. Then, find out what happens in the worst-case scenario, where time is of the essence in saving a life.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In 24 fascinating episodes, Dr. Roy Benaroch of Emory University’s School of Medicine shows you how to recognize good reporting that provides accurate, well-sourced health information and bad reporting that’s incomplete at best and purposely misleading at worst. You’ll get answers to medical questions that take you past the headlines and beyond the way health news is typically reported.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At 55 years of age and quite overweight, Joe falls asleep all the time. Is it narcolepsy? Is it kidney disease? The real culprit, you'll discover, is a condition originally described by author Charles Dickens; one whose effects are more wide-ranging (and life-threatening) on the human body than you can imagine.
17) The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media: Episode 18,Heath Risks in Our Environment
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Does your cell phone increase your risk for cancer? Does it really matter whether or not you use your seatbelt? Learn how to examine the research that supports (or doesn’t) the “risk” headlines to then make appropriate choices for you and your family. Exaggerating a risk might make for good “clickbait,” but it can lead to unnecessary fears and poor decision-making.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Discover how doctors diagnose a common disease that can kill a healthy 36-year-old woman in months but, in a 90-year-old, may not need to be treated at all. Through the case of a woman with increasing hip pain, you'll learn more about the genetics of this disease, ways to test for it, and more.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Opioids had been around for a century before exploding into the crisis we have today. But the cause of the current crisis is not as simple as the story we often hear: greedy drug companies pushing greedy doctors to overprescribe. Learn what the most common cause of opioid death is today, and the role the media can play with respect to educating families and creating pressure for policy change.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From “superfood” to “pink slime” to acai, the media exerts a powerful effect on our concepts of food, diet, and health. Learn how to differentiate between nutrition-related scientific statements and marketing statements. When does the desire to eat whole, healthy foods become an unhealthy obsession? What role does the media play in influencing those choices?