Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine

As part of National Mental Health Awareness Month, Dr. Greg talks with Dr. Cathy Martin, a UK Healthcare Child and Adolescent psychiatrist about some proven methods to treat substance abuse issues in adolescent patients.

May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and Dr. Greg has the first in a two part series on adolescent mental health issues.  His guest this week is Dr. Kelly Hill, director of UK Healthcare's Adolescent Behavioral Health.

Dr. Greg has updated statistics on the need for organ donation throughout the U-S and Kentucky.  The numbers are startling.

This week Dr. Greg Davis addresses some confusion over a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association claiming that pathologists only agree 75% of the time when diagnosing breast cancer.  He talks with two surgical pathologists at UK Healthcare who have a subspecialty interest in breast pathology:  Dr. Luis Samayoa, and Dr. Rachel Stewart.

This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine the host shines the spotlight on, and explodes some myths about social workers.

In observance of National Nutrition Month Dr. Greg talks with Karen Bryla McNees and Vanessa Oliver of UK Health & Wellness about healthy snacking.

This week Dr. Greg has details on a now postponed Colon Cancer Prevention Fair at the Lyric Theatre where people can learn about the disease, the number two cancer killer, and receive a free take-home colon cancer screening kit.  The Fayette County Health Department says the event will be rescheduled for later this month.  March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

This week Dr. Greg talks with Chris Feddock, internal medicine and pediatrics physician at UK Healthcare, about the recent measles outbreak which heightened conversations about vaccines in general.

This week Dr. Greg chats with Kristy Deep, director of UK Healthcare Enterprise Quality about the importance of patient satisfaction surveys.

This week Dr. Greg talks with Alison Bailey with UK's Gill Heart Institute about ways to keep that ticker from getting out of whack.