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Do you feel helpless in the face of "the system?" This show is to help you learn how to take control and steer your way to health. Hear how others have met these challenges and overcome them. Learn how you can do so too. This program is a forum to share your experiences, ask your questions, and learn how to create and manage your health care team. Make the healthcare system work for you!

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Joyce talks with Greg Winick about his new book, "I Told My Mind To Shut The F*ck Up!": ...and then I saw what was possible." The book chronicles his own journey from panic to clear thinking and survival. About his book, Greg writes:... more
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Krissi Marie McVicker always dreamed of being a mother. Her conviction so strong that she willingly endured six rounds of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) before her dream finally came true. In her inspiring new memoir Ordinary Miracles,... more
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Silenced by the prejudice of history makers past, not much is known about the life of Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first African American, female doctor in the U.S. However, Eula Youngblood gives this heroine of the equal... more
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Healthcare organizations are under incredible pressure to improve quality and reduce costs. Kaizen, as a methodology, gives us a way to engage front-line staff and leaders so they are more fulfilled through the improvement of their work,... more
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Joyce talks with Deborah Kennedy, author of "Two Kinds of Color". Two Kinds of Color (Createspace) by Deborah Kennedy may be fiction but its characters and events reflect the author's real life story: growing up black in a racially divided... more
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Robert Nagourney, MD, talks with Joyce about Chemosensitivity Testing in Cancer Therapy. Dr. Nagourney is medical director of Rational Therapeutics in Long Beach, California. He is a leader in the ?functional profiling? of human... more
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As questions continue to circulate about who will be the Republican presidential nominee, questions also loom about what's ahead for Washington and the healthcare system. Dr. Joseph Boyett, former adviser to senior officials during... more
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Harry Haroutunian, MD, physician director of the Betty Ford Center, talks with Joyce about his new book, written with Louis Teresi, MD, .Hijacking the Brain is the first-ever scientific explanation for why Twelve-Step recovery programs... more
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In celebration of Mental Health Month, Carol Kivler speaks with Joyce about her new book, the ABC's of Recovery from Mental Illness. ?I am a daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, friend, educator, speaker, author, and business owner. I... more
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Dr. Stanley West is a gynecologist and reproductive endocrinologist and a leader in the National Uterine Fibroid Foundation. He is working hard to reduce the number of hysterectomies performed as a result of uterine fibroids. Nearly... more
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