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Occupy Providence Hospital Pool: People with disabilities organize to save a community resource

Airs at: Mon, 06/18/2012 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Host Cecil Prescod interviews Noah Dundas and Brian Crosby-Payne  about a grass roots effort to save the only warm water therapy pool in the Portland area. In 1992  Dorothy Torgler, a foundational pillar for Providence Hospital, through a charitable contribution, made poss... Read more

PTSD Awareness Day

Airs at: Wed, 06/27/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Wednesday is PTSD Awareness Day, and we'll spend the hour with Oregon's Lines for Life Military Helpline. Our guest is Leslie Storm, Lines for Life Crisis Line clinical director. If you are a veteran who needs crisis counseling for PTSD call the ... Read more

Coming Back from Serious Injuries

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
Host Paul Van Dyck speaks with medical transcriptionist Ginger May who discusses what happened to her after she fell out of a hayloft and broke her back. They discuss her rehabilitation and the importance of having an advocate when you are hospitalized. Read more

Saving Warm Water Therapy Pool at Portland Providence Medical Center

To sign the petition to save the warm water therapy pool at Providence Portland Medical Center, go to: www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/easter-seals-oregon-and-providence-health-systems-please-don-t-close-the-only-warm-water-therapy-pool-in-the-portland-area   To see the letter... Read more

Abe and Joe ponder the recent preponderance of religious misbehavior.

Airs at: Tue, 05/29/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris   Some three centuries into the Age of Reason, there still seem to be an inordinate number of public clashes between the secular and the sacred. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is using the two-week runup to the 4th of July to ... Read more

Leader Dogs for the Blind

Airs at: Mon, 05/28/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck You may have seen a monkey riding a unicycle, but have you ever seen a lion riding a bicycle? Mark Mansell, superintendent of the La Center Public Schools is a member of Lions International. He plans to ride his bicycle from Portland OR to Portland... Read more

Forced Drugging of Children Focus of Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium

Airs at: Wed, 05/09/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Hosted by Lisa Loving   The Rethinking Psychiatry Symposium is this weekend, featuring attorney Jim Gottstein, lectures, talks and panels, and a resource fair. Our guests this morning are Jim Gottstein and symposium founder Marcia Thompson, speaking on Psychotropic Drugs... Read more

Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance tell their stories

Airs at: Fri, 04/20/2012 at 12:00am
Hosts Marvin Simmons and Bill Bires speak with members of the Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance. The group is working to create a community of people who desire to find justice, answers and support for the generational victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin. It was found... Read more

Morquio Syndrome

Airs at: Mon, 04/23/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Sounds of Awareness
 Hosted by Paul Van Dyck   Students at Central High School in Independence, Oregon have banded together to raise money to help their classmate, Mason Stokes, who has Morquio syndrome, an inherited, seriously physically deforming disease. We will learn how the students have... Read more

Dr. Paul Gorman on why we need a National Single Payer Health System

Airs at: Tue, 04/17/2012 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Joe Uris. Today's guest is Dr. Paul Gorman from Oregon Health & Science University. Here in America, we pay some of the Highest Costs for Medical Care, yet reap some of the Worst Results. Why?  We Waste Way Too Much Money on the Private Health Insurance Industry.     Read more