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Host: Jacqueline
Marcell
The Author
of Elder Rage
Segment 1
Show Date: 04/10/04
Dr. Michael G. Rayel is an author, speaker, psychiatrist and author of "First Aid to Mental Illness: A Practical Guide for Patients and Caregivers". He advocates for mental health using the CARE Approach. As a geriatric psychiatrist he established and heads the Senior’s Neuropsychiatry and Dementia Clinic at Peninsulas Health Care Corporation in Newfoundland, Canada. Dr. Rayel is also the inventor of the Oikos Game: A Personal Development and Emotional Skills Game, for helping children with skills such as anger management.
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Show Date: 04/10/04
Dr. Robert Cochran is an internist and pain management expert who has written, "Understanding Chronic Pain: A Doctor Talks to His Patients", which offers a series of fascinating case studies that explore the true meaning of chronic pain and gives hope to chronic pain victims. He incorporates the fields of neurology, internal medicine and psychiatry in deriving insightful conclusions for the chronic pain sufferer. He established his private medical practice in 1963 in Nashville, where he continues to work today.
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Show Date:
04/10/04
Barbara Cowan Berg is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Southern CA, and the author of "How To Escape The No-Win Trap." She works with those who are caregivers for family members, with patients in hospitals, and with children in child care centers. She developed a system for medical staff to let others know when they could take on more and when they needed to focus on caring for themselves. Barbara is committed to assertive and effective communication.
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Show Date: 04/10/04 Ira Byock, MD, is a nationally respected authority on end-of-life care, and a longtime advocate on behalf of the chronically ill and their families. His essays have appeared in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal and his work has been featured on Nightline, Dateline NBC, and HBO’s Letting Go: A Hospice Journey. He is the Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and on the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School. He is also the author of "Dying Well" and "The Four Things That Matter Most." |
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5 Dr. Richard Weinstein is a chiropractor in Santa Cruz, California, who has been in practice for 26 years and has helped hundreds of patients with stress, adrenal gland and other hormonal imbalances, and a host of other health disorders. He is the author of "The Stress Effect: Discover the Connection Between Stress and Disease and Reclaim Your Health". He is one of the nation's leading experts on stress. |
Show Date: 04/10/04
Betty Weiss is the author of "When the Doctor Says, Alzheimer's: Your Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's & Dementia". She married her grammar school sweetheart, Bernie Weiss, but in his 50's Alzheimer's came into their lives. She knew something was wrong and that Bernie was terrified of losing his mind. It seemed impossible that this brilliant, loving, decent man with no history of Alzheimer's in his family, who designed and built transformers that went into all the early space shots, would have a memory problem.