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Chicago Healthcare, Medicine, Mental Health
  • Charlotte Towle

    Tribute to Charlotte Towle

    1967

    Tribute to Charlotte Towle with Ner Littner, Pearl Rosenzweig, Alan Wade and Dame Eileen Younghusband.

  • Sydney Lewis reads from and discusses her book "Hospital"

    Jan. 31, 1995

    "Hospital: An Oral History of Cook County Hospital" covers what was once the largest public hospital in the United States. With 6,000 employees, Sydney Lewis learned that County Hospital was a small city onto itself. One may have a long wait at the hospital, but Lewis found because of it's good health care, there was a kind of a loyalty toward County. With Chicago and its diversity, it was good for the people to see African American doctors and nurses that were black and brown, too.

  • Susan Nussbaum and Michael Pachovas

    Susan Nussbaum and Michael Pachovas discuss the Disabled Americans Freedom Rally with Studs Terkel

    Feb. 28, 1981

    Susan Nussbaum, founder of Access Living and Michael Pachovas founder of Disabled Prisoners Program discuss the upcoming Disabled Americans Freedom Rally in the backdrop of the International Year of the Disabled Persons and President Reagan's budget cuts. Society needs to understand that expenditures are required to secure the rights of disabled people to live active, productive lives. They need to be able to get out of their apartment buildings or homes, travel on sidewalks and ride buses. That may require access ramps, working elevators, cut curbs, and hydraulic buses to lower steps.

  • Studs Terkel discusses use of the drug Cylert (Pemoline) with Richard Kasperson and Robert Janicki of Abbott Labs

    Feb. 23, 1976

    Studs Terkel interviews two representatives from Abbott Laboratories: Richard Kasperson, V.P. of corporate regulatory affairs, and Dr. Robert Janicki, V.P. of corporate clinical research. The topic of conversation is the prescribed use of Cylert, which was a trade name for the drug Pemoline. Cylert was used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. Janicki and Kasperson respond to claims that the drug was overprescribed to school-aged children.

  • Otis Thomas in conversation with Studs Terkel

    Jan. 29, 1990
  • Laurie Abraham

    Laurie Abraham reads from and discusses her book "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead"

    Oct. 1, 1993

    What started out as a 5-piece article on health care became Laurie Abraham's book, "Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America". Through her stories, Abraham points out the many hardships and catch-22 scenarios of some poor families. One woman, after caring for her mother all day, Julie, wanted to work part time in the evenings. However, she soon learned that she'd be making too much money and she'd no longer be eligible for Medicaid for herself and her children.

  • Jean Komaiko and Dr. Quentin Young

    Jean Komaiko and Dr. Quentin Young discuss hunger in Chicago

    Feb. 6, 1969

    Discussing hunger in Chicago and interviewing Jean Komaiko and Dr. Quentin Young.

  • Interview with Stuart Gordon, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Richard Fire and Gary Houston

    Jun. 21, 1982

    Discussing the current production "E.R" (Emergency Room) with Organic Theatre company cast members Stuart Gordon, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Richard Fire and Gary Houston.

  • Interview with Roger Bruns

    Mar. 30, 1987

    Discussing "The Damnedest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician," (published by University of Illinois Press) with the author Roger Bruns.

  • Former halfway house residents discuss halfway houses

    Oct. 16, 1973

    Discussion about halfway houses with a panel of former halfway house residents.

  • Drs. Quentin Young, Ron Shansky and Mike Gray talks with Studs Terkel

    Dec. 3, 1975

    Interviewing Dr. Quentin Young and others about Cook County Hospital and public health services in Chicago and throughout the country.

  • Dr. Quentin Young discusses his work at Cook County Hospital

    Aug. 20, 1974

    Dr. Young talks about his policy about addictive medications at Cook County Hospital, and about the financially driven connections between pharmaceutical companies and doctors.

  • Dr. Linda Murray and Dr. Quentin Young talks about Cook County Public Hospital and the dynamic of public hospitals around the country

    Jan. 10, 1979

    Interview with Dr. Linda Murray and Dr. Quentin Young which discusses how closing public hospitals can affect minorities and less privileged communities. Also talks about the expectations of medical students and the dynamics of medical school.

  • Dr. Jacob I. Bregman, Sergei Lenormand in conversation with Studs Terkel

  • Discussing drugs in high schools and interviewing Judith Nicol and Lane Tech High School students Jim and Kurt

    May. 8, 1973
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