This Week on Sound Medicine...Nov 12

Tune in at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 12, 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.

This weekcontributing reporter Shia Levitt will examine the strengths and weaknesses of the Veterans Administration’s medical care system, which has undergone leadership changes and series of reforms in the past 10 years.

Doctors Without Borders co-founder Patrick Aeberhard, MD, will discuss the organization and his personal experiences practicing medicine in war-torn countries such as Rwanda.

Also scheduled is Siobhan McEvory-Levy, PhD, associate professor of political science at Butler University, who will discuss her recent trip to Israel and Palestine and the impact of war and conflict on children in those countries.

Physicians face many challenges in the war zone. Michael Murphy, MD, IUSM assistant professor of surgery, will relate his experience operating at the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad for four months, performing general and vascular surgeries on war wounded Americans and Iraqis.

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

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