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Outpatient Thyroidectomy Surgery, Preventing Childhood Obesity, and Green Light Photo-vaporization

May 14, 2010 by

[HTML1] This program is part of a series, Your Health Matters, where you learn from the experts themselves – from our physicians and scientists, in their words – describing how Scott and White Healthcare, one of America’s most admired healthcare systems, is helping shape the future of medicine.

Outpatient thyroidectomy surgery at Scott and White Healthcare is the subject of the first segment of this program (00:00 – 10:59).  Dr. Samuel Snyder, Scott and White Healthcare’s Chief of Endocrine Surgery, compares outpatient thyroidectomy with more traditional approaches.

Then Chris moves to a discussion with Catherine J. McNeal, M.D. Ph.D. focusing on measures parents can take to ensure a healthy lifestyle for their children that will prevent health problems common in today’s youth, such as obesity and cardiovascular disease and the.(11:00 – 21:59)

Finally we hear Rob Dickinson, MD  and Lucas Jacomides, MD, urologists from Scott & White Healthcare describe and discuss with Chris a procedure called The Green Light Photo-Vaporization to vaporize and remove enlarged prostate tissue (22:00 – 33:00).  They have found this minimally invasive outpatient procedure effective in relieving symptoms of incontinence.

More about Samuel K. Snuder
Samuel K. Snyder, M.D., F.A.C.D., Chief, Section of Endocrine Surgery at Scott and White Healthcare is also Vice Chairman for Legal Affairs, Department of Surgery.  He has accumulated an impressive list of publications, notably one based on over 100 outpatient thyroidectomy procedures such as he discusses with Chris.

More about Catherine J. McNeal
Catherine J. McNeal, M.D. Ph.D.  is part of Scott and White’s Children’s Cardiovascular Health Clinic. She has been associated with Scott and White since 1996, appointed in 2000.

More about Robert B. Dickinson
Robert B. Dickinson, M.D. is part of Scott and White’s Urology and Urology Surgery staff.  His patient care emphasis is male and female voiding dysfunction, laparoscopic surgery, urinary stone disease, and erectile dysfunction.

More about Lucas Jacomides
Lucas Jacomides, M.D. is part Scott and White’s Urology and Urology Surgery staff.  He is especially interested in cancer of the prostate, bladder, and kidney; laparoscopy/minimally-invasive surgery; benign prostatic enlargement; urinary incontinence; and kidney stones.

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Christopher Springmann is Executive Producer and Senior Correspondent of Life, Love and Health, the award-winning health and wellness program that reaches millions daily on multiple news, talk and sports channels including Sirius XM, CNN, FOX, NPR affiliates, American Forces Network, and HealthRadio.net.

Life, Love and Health is also Mr. Springmann’s latest endeavor in a journey of “creative convergence” that started as a photographer for Time, Fortune, National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines. He moved into writing leadership profiles for Chief Executive and California CEO magazines, which in turn provided the inspiration for creating Life, Love and Health: to fulfill the unmet need of telling America’s health story. Mr. Springmann meets this need in entertaining and emotionally engaging ways, with the authentic voices of real people, including a diverse group of doctors and nurses, patients and their families, plus researchers and innovators in the health-and-wellness field. He relies on the credibility and persuasiveness of people’s passionate storytelling to get the point across. People identify with the experiences of others and are encouraged to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.

Christopher is also the Host of Life, Love and Health on WomensRadio. Life, Love and Health seeks to ultimately make a difference in people’s lives by encouraging individuals to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.