This Week on Sound Medicine, March 5, 2006

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 5, to Sound Medicine, the weekly radio program co-produced by IUSM and WFYI Public Radio (90.1 FM) in Indianapolis. The program is hosted by Barb Lewis. Co-hosts of this week’s program are David Crabb, MD, and Stephen Bogdewic, PhD.

Assisted suicide and palliative care will be the topics of first portion of the show. An essay by California physician and journalist Lonny Shavelson, MD, will begin the program. When his own father was dying, Dr. Shavelson found himself in the middle of the assisted suicide debate. In his moving first person essay, Dr. Shavelson shares his struggle to comply with his father’s wishes as well as his own responsibilities as a son and doctor.

Discussing what effect palliative care can have on patients and their families will be director of the Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program, Gregory Gramelspacher, MD. He also directs the Palliative Care Program for Wishard Memorial Hospital and is an associate professor of medicine at the IU School of Medicine.

In his 'first of the month' bioethical discussion, Eric Meslin, PhD, will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of privately funded medical research. Dr. Meslin is the director of the Indiana University Center for Bioethics.

Archived editions of Sound Medicine, as well as other helpful health information, can be found at http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/.

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