Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
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Jim Wilson is in the Department of Population and Disease Genetics at the University of Edinburgh.
Let's leave the genome and head for the nose and brain.
Not just anyone's, but Gretchen Miller's.
Gretchen's a producer with Radio National's three hundred sixty documentaries, and as they say, this is her story.
Phantosmia was first played on Radio National's three hundred sixty documentaries, which can be heard on Sunday mornings at ten.
It was written and produced by Gretchen Miller with sound engineer Stephen Tilly.
I'm Norman Swann and this has been the Health Report.
See you next week.
Hello and welcome to the Health Report with me, Norman Swann.
Today a twist on the aging population, research which suggests that general practitioners in training aren't seeing enough children with enormous implications for quality of care and access to knowledgeable GPs by parents.
The artificial pancreas for people with diabetes, it's getting closer, and a very important story on making decisions about who and where to receive specialist diagnosis and treatment.
The risk of dying after certain kinds of cancer surgery can double depending on which hospital you go to for your operation.
That's according to a unique study just released by the Cancer Institute New South Wales, and it has enormous implications for how health services are organised across Australia.
For many tumors, surgery is the only hope for a cure, so there's a lot riding on which surgeon you're sent to.
But in fact choosing your hospital is more important than choosing your surgeon.
In people with esophageal and pancreatic cancer, overseas evidence shows up to a quadrupling of postoperative death rates depending on the surgical volume, the numbers of such operations performed at a hospital each year.
But local surgeons have questioned that research, so the Kenser Institute, New South Wales, decided to find out what was really happening.
Professor David Carrow is the Institute's CEO and the state's chief cancer officer.
Did you look at breast cancer?
By contrast But just before you go on, that's by institution, that's by hospital.
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