On this episode, our host, Dr. Joe Sirven, examines the responsibilities of four-legged health care professionals.
Service dogs are tasked with many duties including aiding patients who are blind, alerting the deaf and calming those experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder.
Our guest is Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, which is based at the Health Policy Research Center at the Mongan Institute-Massachusetts General Hospital.
In the second block, we take a closer look at how some patients are self-managing their diabetes treatments.
Diabetes is a common condition that requires monitoring, treatment and lifestyle changes to regulate insulin.
Offering expertise is Linda Lockett Brown, a registered dietitian nutritionist at CINET Nutrition in Orange Park.
"What's Health Got to Do with It?" is a talk program from WJCT in Jacksonville that examines the intersection of health care and daily life.
Sirven is a Jacksonville neurologist at Mayo Clinic.
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