Book Club

Guest: Dan Shapiro, PhD Host: Susan Dolan, RN, JD Dr. Dan Shapiro, Director of the Medical Humanities Program and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Arizona, discusses his book: Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love and Beating the Odds.

Guest: Mani Bhaumik, PhD Host: Larry Kaskel, MD Does wealth equate to happiness? Today’s guest, scientist and co-inventor of the technology that made Lasik surgery possible, found that wealth did not equal happiness for him. What can we as physicians learn from Dr. Bhaumik’s story and his search for life's meaning?

Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD Guest: Jennifer Ackerman Jennifer Ackerman reminds us that Don Quixote called hunger "la major salsa del mundo" the world’s best sauce. What have we learned about appetite, hunger and digestion in recent years? Join ReachMD Book Club host Dr. Leslie Lundt as she welcomes the author of Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream.

Guest: Jennifer Ackerman Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD People magazine has said that Jennifer Ackerman is “blessed with a naturalist’s eye for detail and a poet’s soul’. Her book beautifully describes how the body is a system of finely tuned clocks. She weaves cutting edge science with poetic descriptions of the impact that circadian biology has on nearly every aspect of our lives. ReachMD Book Club host Dr. Leslie Lundt discusses “Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream” with author Jennifer Ackerman.

Guest: Allan Hobson, MD Host: Leslie P. Lundt, MD In this segment we learn from Dr. Allan Hobson, emminent Harvard neuroscientist and author of 13 Dreams Freud Never Had: The New Mind Science. Dr. Hobson talks about psychoanalysis, dreaming, and the latest in associated neuroscience research.