[HTML1] Any surgery is difficult, and if there’s potentially life-threatening reason for it, such as removing cancerous tissue, the stakes are incredibly high. And what happens afterward, once the surgery has been successfully completed? In today’s first segment, Your Health Matters host Christopher Springmann speaks with Dr. Raman Mahabir, a plastic surgeon with Scott & White Healthcare, about reconstruction after cancer surgery and other traumas. “Plastic surgery really does combine, not only functional reconstruction, but also aesthetic,” says Dr. Mahabir. “We try to make it look nice when we’re done with it as well. The patients expect more and so we’re providing more.”
Then we go to Life Love & Health: Special Edition, where Executive Producer Christopher Springmann explores the developing world of assisted listening devices. If you’re among the hearing impaired in America and need a hearing aid to increase the volume or your ability to sort out various frequencies like speech in a noisy restaurant or theater environment, you might also consider an assisted listening device to improve the quality of your life. And how about the quality of the lives of the people close to you, like that individual sitting next to you on the couch as you watch TV who likes the sound slightly lower than you do? To hear more, listen to Scott Houston, who specializes in Audiology products for Sennheiser Electronic Corporation. While Sennheiser is widely respected for microphones and headphones by people in the audio world, this company also makes assisted listening devices for the hearing impaired, which add immeasurably to people’s sense of freedom, independence and mobility.
In our third segment, The Passionate Patient, we hear the remarkable story of Bob Ellal, a writer who was diagnosed with stage 4 bone lymphoma some 20 years ago. Bob learned firsthand that he could take control of his condition through what we now call integrative medicine, the convergence between conventional, Western approaches to disease and the Eastern mind, body and spirit traditions. In Bob’s case, the tradition he embraced was qigong, the Chinese internal energy practice that, in 1996, drove his cancer into complete remission despite his doctor’s bleak prognosis. He detailed this victory in his first book, Confronting Cancer with the Qigong Edge.
Segment A (0:00 – 11:00)
Your Health Matters host Christopher Springmann speaks with plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgeon Dr. Raman Mahabir about reconstruction after cancer surgery
Segment B (11:01 – 22:00)
Life Love & Health: Special Edition Executive Producer Christopher Springmann speaks with Scott Houston, an audiology product developer with Sennheiser Electronic Corporation about assisted listening devices for the hearing impaired
Segment C (22:01 – 33:00)
Christopher Springmann speaks with author Bob Ellal about his victory over stage 4 bone lymphoma through the Chinese internal energy practice qigong.
More about Raman Mahabir
Dr. Raman Mahabir is a plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgeon at Scott & White Healthcare’s Temple, TX clinic. He trained in plastic surgery, hand and microsurgery, and breast and cosmetic surgery at University of Calgary and University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He’s certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and joined Scott & White in 2007. Dr. Mahabir is also an Associate Professor of Surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
More about Scott & White Healthcare
When Arthur C. Scott, M.D., and Raleigh R. White Jr., M.D., began their medical practice in Temple, Texas in 1897, they shared one fundamental conviction: medicine must serve the people. Today, Scott & White Healthcare is a fully integrated health system — the largest multi-specialty practice in Texas and the sixth largest group practice in the nation. Scott & White employs more than 1,100 health care providers and research scientists who care for patients covering 25,000 square miles across Central Texas.
More about Scott Houston
Scott Houston is the product specialist for Audiology products at Sennheiser Electronic Corporation. With over seven years of professional audio experience, Scott serves as the point person for technical and product-related information for Sennheiser’s assistive-listening devices.
More about Bob Ellal
Bob Ellal is a four-time cancer survivor. In 1991 he was diagnosed with Stage Four bone lymphoma and given six months to live. With chemotherapy and continuous daily sessions of meditation, he beat the disease. Unfortunately, it relapsed three times over the next five years and he underwent two stem cell transplants. Mr. Ellal went more deeply into the mind/body connection and trained with a kung-fu master from Boston in Chinese internal energy exercises—qigong. The doctors gave him a 10% chance of survival. He ignored them, and immersed himself in a disciplined daily practice of standing post meditation qigong. Against all odds, he finally beat the disease in 1996. He’s been cancer-free for 15 years and continues to practice qigong for an hour or two a day. Mr. Ellal has worked as a writer/editor for a division of a major publisher and as a writer at a major insurance corporation. He’s also worked as a freelancer. His first book Confronting Cancer with the Qigong Edge is an introduction to the principles and practice of qigong and the positive impact mind/body exercises can have upon cancer survival. He is completing his second book The Leavings of the Wolf, a collection of short stories about the real-world challenges of cancer survivors. His website offers cancer survival tips and information regarding the benefits of qigong and the mind/body connection. He has two grown sons, Geoff, in Special Forces, and Dylan, at a major university studying computer graphics.
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