PodMed is a weekly podcast from Johns Hopkins Medicine. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week.
This week's topics include dementia and depression, complications of implanted defibrillators, the most common emergency surgeries, and treatment of insomnia.
Program notes:
1:35 Medications only for short term
2:32 Has to be provided outside physician's office
3:14 Implantable cardiac defibrillator complications
4:14 Inform patients of potential
6:18 Followed about 3,300 people
7:15 Not good at prediction of dementia
8:00 Most common emergency surgeries
9:00 Adhesions, appendectomy ...
10:17 End