Guest(s)
Nancy Metcalf
Topic
How To Get The Most From Your Relationship With Your Doctor
Topic Info
Nancy Metcalf, a Senior Program Editor at Consumer Reports magazine, joins Dr. DeSilva to discuss the results from a new doctors’ poll and a companion survey of 49,007 Consumer Reports subscribers about their experiences with physicians. She will also offer tips for navigating the complex doctor-patient relationship, both face-to-face and online.
Guest Info
Nancy Metcalf is a Senior Program Editor at Consumer Reports magazine, specializing in medical, health, and fitness topics. Since joining the magazine in 1990, she has reported, written, and edited reports on topics such as dangerous dietary supplements, diet/weight loss, health insurance, the marketing of prescription drugs, food safety, exercise, medical privacy, menopause, vaccine safety, hospital safety, mental health care, and alternative medicine.
Ms. Metcalf has appeared on national TV on the CBS “Early Show,” the CBS “Evening News,” NBC’s “The Today Show,” and CNN Headline News, and she is a frequent guest on news-talk radio programs across the U.S. Three of her articles for Consumer Reports have been finalists for the prestigious National Magazine Award, and she has been honored with the Science-in-Society Journalism Award of the Council for Advancement of Science Writing and two awards for national public interest magazine journalism from Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.
Before joining Consumer Reports, she was a freelance medical writer and contributed articles to national publications including In Health, Women's Day, Reader's Digest, Working Mother, and Medical World News. She also was a consultant to the Connecticut Commission on Hospitals and Health Care.
Earlier, she worked as a medical and environmental reporter and editor at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Steve Metcalf, and they are parents of three daughters.
Ms. Metcalf has appeared on national TV on the CBS “Early Show,” the CBS “Evening News,” NBC’s “The Today Show,” and CNN Headline News, and she is a frequent guest on news-talk radio programs across the U.S. Three of her articles for Consumer Reports have been finalists for the prestigious National Magazine Award, and she has been honored with the Science-in-Society Journalism Award of the Council for Advancement of Science Writing and two awards for national public interest magazine journalism from Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.
Before joining Consumer Reports, she was a freelance medical writer and contributed articles to national publications including In Health, Women's Day, Reader's Digest, Working Mother, and Medical World News. She also was a consultant to the Connecticut Commission on Hospitals and Health Care.
Earlier, she worked as a medical and environmental reporter and editor at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, Steve Metcalf, and they are parents of three daughters.
Host
Dr. Derrick DeSilva
Original Air Date
2 / 10 / 2011
