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Thyroid Awareness: Dr. Val Tells ABC News To Check Their Necks

January 19th, 2010 by Dr. Val Jones in Health Tips, Video
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January is thyroid disease awareness month, and I was invited to educate the good people at Let’s Talk Live about this often-forgotten little gland. For this segment, I used Twitter to poll my friends about interesting thyroid factoids. Thanks to Nick Genes @blogborygmi who reminded me of the connection between carpal tunnel syndrome and hypothyroidism and to Meredith Gould @meredithgould who mentioned that depression sometimes has a thyroid-related cause.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCk1MA5dhjY

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Dr. Val Tells ABC News About Hospital Errors And How To Avoid Them

November 20th, 2009 by Dr. Val Jones in Health Tips, True Stories, Video
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtC_8KJZrkI

I kick off this segment with a surprising twist: I describe a hospital error that I experienced as a patient in the ER of a famous academic medical center.  And yes, I give a shout out to Paul Levy at minute 5 for his courageous efforts to reduce infection rates at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.