Guest(s)
Dr. Robert Silverman
Topic
End of Life Care, Diabetes, and Thanksgiving
Topic Info
Diabetic emergencies are dangerous and possibly deadly. What are emergency physicians seeing? What is diabetes exactly? Is the problem getting worse? How is it affecting America’s emergency departments. Dr. Robert Silverman has a study published in Annals of Emergency Medicine on Diabetes. He’ll be on to discuss.
Guest Info
Robert Silverman, MD, MS is an attending emergency physician at North Shore Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York. He is also Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, NY and Hofstra University, North Shore Long Island School of Medicine. Dr. Silverman’s interests include screening for diagnoses diabetes in the acute care setting, asthma and improving influenza vaccination rates during pregnancy, among other things.
Website
Host
Dr. Leigh Vinocur
Original Air Date
11 / 18 / 2011
