The Frankie Boyer BLOG: Frankie Boyer's Guest Line Up 3/4/13

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Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin will be here to discuss these Lost Tribes of the Amazon. Mark is the founder of the Amazon Conservation Team, and author of multiple books, including The Shaman's Apprentice. He has previously interviewed with NPR, NBC Nightly News and TODAY. He is featured in the 1997 IMAX film, The Amazon. Deep in the jungles of Colombia, shadowy groups of Indians believed to have vanished long ago are living the way their ancestors have for thousands of years - and refusing to encounter the modern world. As detailed in Smithsonian magazine's march issue (on newsstands 2/26), researchers are using photographs and GPS coordinates to confirm these tribes' existence and pinpoint their exact location to lobby governments for strengthened protection for these tribes. Gold miners, loggers and narcotics traffickers have been putting these tribes at risk, violently invading their territory and exposing them to infections that their bodies have no immunity to. Such assimilation results in poverty, alcoholism, unemployment and eventually extinction - and anthropologists and conservationists are fiercely lobbying for protection to preserve these century-old cultures, languages and oral traditions.

The U.S. healthcare system is now spending many millions of dollars to improve "patient safety" and "inter-professional practice." Nevertheless, an estimated 100,000 patients still succumb to preventable medical errors or infections every year. How can health care providers reduce the terrible financial and human toll of medical errors and injuries that harm rather than heal? Beyond the Checklist argues that lives could be saved and patient care enhanced by adapting the relevant lessons of aviation safety and teamwork. In response to a series of human-error caused crashes, the airline industry developed the system of job training and information sharing known as Crew Resource Management (CRM). Under the new industry-wide system of CRM, pilots, flight attendants, and ground crews now communicate and cooperate in ways that have greatly reduced the hazards of commercial air travel. The coauthors of this book sought out the aviation professionals who made this transformation possible. Beyond the Checklist gives us an inside look at CRM training and shows how airline staff interaction that once suffered from the same dysfunction that too often undermines real teamwork in health care today has dramatically improved. www.beyondthechecklist.com/

At age thirty-seven, Alice Ferguson has everything an ambitious, intellectual, self-made woman could want. She has captured a career as an editor of a tabloid magazine, launched her own website full of Hollywood gossip, and even clawed her way into a second-hand pair of Prada shoes. She has also finally landed a husband—no small feat, as it required getting pregnant with his baby. But when Alice becomes pregnant and experiences health problems, her world is turned upside down. To save her life and the life of her unborn child, she must leave Los Angeles and the stress of her bicoastal career, exchanging the late-night parties of sunny California for the suburbs of Nashville. With a weak smile and an even weaker heart, she soon finds herself living with a husband she barely knows, ensconced in a gated community brimming with perky, plastic, pony-tailed housewives. And then, at the gentle urging of a new friend, she agrees to attend church one Sunday afternoon. What begins as an experiment beyond her comfort zone sparks something much bigger, as Alice begins to look deep within herself only to find insecurity, fear, and loneliness. One Sunday charts an endearing character’s journey from moral ambiguity through madness, tears, laughter, and heartbreak to a connection with the only One who can help heal her.

Health Show

This afternoon Dr. Andrew Saul will be joining me to talk about his newest books Doctor Yourself Natural Healing that Works. This book is about diseases treatable with vitamins. It is also about any number of other ways in which you can, as I say, ''fire your doctor.'' Should you ever want to put someone to sleep, just start lecturing on nutrition with the ever-boring ''vitamins A through E and foods that contain them'' approach. I guarantee that heads will be nodding long before you finish with the B complex. Also new from Dr. Saul, THE VITAMIN CURE FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH PROBLEMS Does a visit to your pediatrician mean just getting more and more shots, and more and more prescriptions? He is the author of many health books such as Fire Your Doctor,Vitamin C: the real story, and The Vitamin Cure For Alcoholism. Andrew Saul has been a consulting specialist in natural healing for over 34 years. Saul's six books have been very popular with the public, and have been used as reference works for health practitioners. Saul has been awarded the Citizens for Health Outstanding Health Freedom Activist Award, was named one of seven natural health pioneers by Psychology Today, and is featured in the movie Food Matters.What makes this man dangerous is that he won't shut up and go away. That, and the fact that he's helped thousands of people restore their health without drugs or surgery. His website, www.DoctorYourself.com is fabulous and brilliant