Tales from the Organ Trade

The audio of my interview with Emmy award winning film maker Ric Estehr Bienstock about her new film Tales from the Organ Trade. The premise of this superb documentary is simple: would you buy a poor person's organ to save your own life? My reaction to her film will surprise you.

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PRICE CHECKING - SHOW NOTES FROM FEBRUARY 2ND 2013

Here are the price checking links, Fair Health, Health Care Blue Book,  I mentioned on the show today. Nice little chart above comparing what we pay here and what the Irish pay in an exclusive clinic in Dublin.  Food for thought. 

ARE YOU MARINE FIT?

Are you marine fit?  Money quote from today's NY times:

"Many jobs in the military, he said, have nonnegotiable physical demands. “Whether you were a man or a woman, you had to throw a live grenade 15 meters,” he said. “If a woman throws the hand grenade 10 meters, it’s going to blow up in her face and kill her.”

In the Army, no pull-ups are required of either men or women on the annual fitness test, but like the Marines, there are different standards for each sex. A 17- to 26-year-old man in the Army has to run two miles in 15 minutes, 54 seconds or less and do at least 42 push-ups; a woman in the same age group has to run two miles in 18 minutes, 54 seconds or less and do at least 19 push-ups.

The requirements decrease as service members age, although a woman who is 62 or older in the Army still has to run two miles in 25 minutes or less.

Marines, typically, raise the bar. A 17- to 26-year-old male Marine has to run three miles in 28 minutes or less on his annual fitness test; compared with 31 minutes or less for a female Marine of the same age."

QUARTER BACK VERSUS ARMCHAIR QUARTER BACK

 

On Sunday who'll eat more? The arm chair quarter back watching the game or the quarter back playing the game? My bet's on the arm chair quarter back. Tomorrow, Saturday February 2nd on Dr. Chambers On Call on KFWB News Talk 980, the "true" cost of Super Bowl snacking. And of course your calls.

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YOUR HEART IN YOUR HAND!

This lucky woman is holding her own heart in her hand. Lucky? Yes! Obviously she's a successful heart transplant recipient with a spanking new heart beating away in her chest. The full story is here. 

Can you imagine the sensation of holding your own heart in your hands? Must be weird. Something best avoided if you ask me. Better to look after your own. No smoking. Exercise. Watch your weight.