Ask the Expert -
Taking Care of Yourself

Topics include:

• Advance Directives
• Blood Donation
• Emergency Care
• Find a Physician
• General Care
• Hospice Care
• Hospital Care
• Hospitalist
• Medications

• Smoking

Advance Directives

• Advance Directives: Featuring Edward Perrin, MD
  
  

Blood Donation

• Donating blood Featuring Diana McGregor
• Donating blood ahead of your own surgery Featuring: Charles Castillo, MD

Emergency Care

• Chest compression CPR Featuring Joseph Winchell, D.O.
• CPR certification Featuring Joseph Winchell, D.O.
• Emergency department or urgent care Featuring Jeanette Mercer, MD
• Emergency department wait times Featuring: Kevin Craven
• What to bring to the Emergency department Featuring Charmaine Leoni, RN

 Find a Physician

• Finding a physician Featuring: Carol Collins
• Selecting a primary care physician Featuring Kent Johnson, MD
• Physicians for seasonal visitors Featuring: Jennifer Hoffman, D.O.
• What is a medical home? Featuring John Rooney, MD
• Why do I need a medical check-up Featuring Stanley Wen, MD

General Care

• Medical Home Concept of Care  Featuring: John Rooney, MD
• The economy and my health Featuring Steven Brown, MD
• Top five Internet health care myths Featuring Sandra Miller, MD
• How to stick to New Year's Resolutions Featuring Larissa Orloff, MD
• Genetic counseling Featuring Chelsy Jungbluth
• Nurse practitioners Featuring Jacqueline Agenbroad

Hospice Care

• Hospice care Featuring Amberly Molosky

 Hospital Care

• Anesthesiology Featuring: Stephanie Wade, MD
• Being in ICU Featuring: Didi Hartling, RN 
• Feeling informed during your hospital stay Featuring Carmen Oliveras, MD
• Helping elderly parents with their hospital stay Featuring Sandeep Sachdeva, MD
• Interpreters in the hospital Featuring: Vicki Yepiz
• Preparing for your discharge Featuring John Rooney, MD
• Receiving quality patient care  Featuring: Jo Gott
• Robotic surgery Featuring: Howard P. Tay, MD
• Should I bring my medications to the hospital? Featuring: John Placko
• Staying well informed while in the hospital Featuring: Marjorie Bessel, MD

Hospitalist

• Hospitalists  Featuring: David Edwards, MD
• What is a hospitalist  Featuring: Kathryn Perkins, MD
• Working with a hospitalist Featuring Kathyrn Perkins, MD
• How does my care improve with a hospitalist? Featuring Alan Leibowitz, MD
• How can a hospitalist help me? Featuring Ramanjit Dhaliwal, MD

Medications

• Avoiding overdoses Featuring Cathy Nguyen
• Communicating with a pharmacist  Featuring: Misty Vo 
• Disposing of unused medications Featuring Butch David
• What to do with leftover pain medication Featuring Margaret Szczotka
• Getting prescription drugs from Mexico  Featuring: Misty Vo 
• Taking the right medication  Featuring: Julie Klein-Roerig
• Fake medications Featuring: Misty Vo
• Spring cleaning in the medicine cabinet Featuring Frank LoVecchio, D.O.
• How can I decrease my medication costs? Featuring Steven Brown, MD
• Drug interactions with GERD medicine Featuring Suzanne Sorof, MD
• Can what I eat affect my medications? Featuring Frank LoVecchio, D.O.
• Alternatives to prescription drugs Featuring Michael Levine, MD
• Co-enzyme Q-10 Featuring Steven Brown, MD

Smoking

• Third-hand smoke Featuring Ronald Servi D.O.