On this episode of Advances in Care , host Erin Welsh and Dr. Craig Smith, Chair of the Department of Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia discuss the highlights of Dr. Smith’s 40+ year career as a cardiac surgeon and how the culture of Columbia has been a catalyst for innovation in cardiac care. Dr. Smith describes the excitement of helping to pioneer the institution’s heart transplant program in the 1980s, when it was just one of only three hospitals in the country practicing heart transplantation. Dr. Smith also explains how a unique collaboration with Columbia’s cardiology team led to the first of several groundbreaking trials, called PARTNER (Placement of AoRTic TraNscatheteR Valve), which paved the way for a monumental treatment for aortic stenosis — the most common heart valve disease that is lethal if left untreated. During the trial, Dr. Smith worked closely with Dr. Martin B. Leon, Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Chief Innovation Officer and the Director of the Cardiovascular Data Science Center for the Division of Cardiology. Their findings elevated TAVR, or transcatheter aortic valve replacement, to eventually become the gold-standard for aortic stenosis patients at all levels of illness severity and surgical risk. Today, an experienced team of specialists at Columbia treat TAVR patients with a combination of advancements including advanced replacement valve materials, three-dimensional and ECG imaging, and a personalized approach to cardiac care. Finally, Dr. Smith shares his thoughts on new frontiers of cardiac surgery, like the challenge of repairing the mitral and tricuspid valves, and the promising application of robotic surgery for complex, high-risk operations. He reflects on life after he retires from operating, and shares his observations of how NewYork-Presbyterian and Columbia have evolved in the decades since he began his residency. For more information visit nyp.org/Advances…
John Travolta is an angel who swears and smokes cigarettes and eats a lot of sugar and is the desire of every woman on the planet except for Andie MacDowell, who is too busy hiding her shameful secret about how she babysits dogs. This is a super weird, super goofy movie from the 90s that was much, much easier to watch than any movie Ryan has ever picked for us.…
What better way to start the new year off than with the latest and greatest from Donald James Parker? This week we watched Pickleball Princess, which turned out not to be a religious movie, except in the sense that pickkeball seems to be Donald's new religion. Pickleball is basically the Messiah in this movie. It can cure racism and build bridges, but it also has a deadly side.…
Jesus' diner has closed for business, so now he's vacationing in Thailand and making new friends. You know what that means - it's the hit sequel to The Encounter, only this time, Jesus is taken hostage. David A. R. White is here too, as the world's worst policeman, but he's tied to a chair for most of the movie. Thankfully, Jesus can break the tension by revealing everyone's deepest darkest secrets without their permission. He's also going to explain why tsunamis happen. There's a few gunfights in this movie, but Jesus doesn't participate in those. It's not like he can stop bullets... OR CAN HE? Maybe, but either way he won't.…
Kids these days, they're 29 and have major social media followings, am I right? Thankfully some parents out there still know how to raise their kids right, by waiting until their birthday, leaving the country, cutting them off, and forcing them into a life of poverty and homelessness until they can learn how to put God first. Dan, Alexa, and Ryan learn that what really matters in life is not money or fame, but networking. Featuring a special guest appearance by Stanley the Snake.…
It's all very simple: Satan drives a semi-trailer truck, which he uses to kill a lady so that her infant daughter Sheri can someday grow up and be diagnosed with a terminal illness that leads her to become a Pentecostal superhero. With her newfound powers, Sheri stops middle-aged high school bullies, hypnotizes TV executives, and shuts down whole movie productions. And Satan hates it! So he sniffs her and her dad a lot, and watches her dance. Then, in a climactic showdown, Sheri tells a church not to watch scary movies. Satan just sort of disappears after that, we're not really sure why. But then, in a major plot twist, the real villain turns out to be God all along. Folks, it's the Christian classic C Me Dance. The C is for "chaos."…
A faith-based movie with F bombs! And murder! And angels that seem to be slacking off on their job of stopping terrible things from happening. This week, Dan, Alexa, and Ryan watch their first R-rated faith-based film, which comes with an important lesson about forgiveness. Or something. There's also a murder mystery that goes nowhere, a detective who does nothing, and a woman who knows everything that happens in heaven but still can't clearly explain anything. Don't worry though: behind this inspirational message about faith and grief, there's an underlying message about how to get rich. Because you were born rich, and you have the power within to unlock your sales potential and form better client relationships. Even Jesus couldn't have seen that coming.…
Imagine an episode of Pinky and the Brain where Brain feeds Pinky to a cat, and you have a basic idea of what this Christian cartoon is like. Nero is killing all the Christians in Rome, and that means it's time for some hilarious antics where four probably-orphans have to run for their lives to avoid being sold into slavery. And it's all very wacky and zany! This was a listener request! If there's any faith-based media that you'd like us to watch, please let us know, we'd love to share your trauma!…
Ever wondered what it would be like if Jesus made you a cheeseburger? What if it was the most delicious cheeseburger you'd ever had? And what if Jesus ruined it by saying weird things about genocide? There's all this and more in this week's movie, The Encounter, in which Jesus fulfills his lifelong dream of becoming a small business owner. Unfortunately, the local law enforcement is giving him trouble, while a successful Republican doesn't want to listen to anything he has to say. Dan, Alexa, and Ryan dive into yet another David A. R. White joint and try in vain to make sense of it all.…
How did life begin? It's a question no scientist has ever thought about. What are scientists hiding? And do they have what it takes to win $5000 of Ben Stein's money? I might be mixing some things up. In any case, this week we watched Stein's 2008 propaganda-fest, which boldly defends the right of scientists everywhere to advocate for a vaguely defined theory without even bothering to tell us what it actually consists of. That's right, it's the Intelligent Design movement, baby! It's not religion, but also it represents religion's last stand against communism, or Nazis. Those are basically the same thing I guess. Intelligent Design tells us that God created life, but it's not really about God, but it is about fighting against atheism, but you should have the freedom to believe whatever you want. Watch as Ben asks the tough questions, gets the answers, ignores the answers, then bravely asks the tough questions AGAIN.…
One's a skeptic, the other's a lapsed Christian. Now they have to work together to get to the bottom of a mystery about UFOs. Sounds like a recipe for hijinks! But we'll never know, because the movie skips all that. Instead we have to spend endless hours in their magazine's office listening to people drone on about apple juice and the rapture. Why do we ever let Ryan pick the movie for the week? Why is Rebecca St James in this? When will death finally come?…
God's Not Dead is back, and this time, he's out for vengeance . Reverend Dave has to face his deadliest foe yet: Common Core. It's all very simple: The government wants you to think that its founding documents were written by rich old white slaveowning men, so that you'll be disgusted with them, reject our founding documents, and agree to let the government take away your freedom. But the truth, according to those Christians who care to know it, is that our founding documents were written by literal children, and therefore, it is wrong to hold homeschooling families to any sort of educational standards. It's... it's a weird movie.…
What happens when a tough-minded skeptic sets out to disprove Christianity? And what if that story is told by evangelicals who don't seem to know how tough-minded skeptics actually think? And what if it's based on a true story? That's right, it's the personal account of author Lee Strobel's journey from atheism to Christianity, although calling the character in this film "tough-minded" seems a bit generous. Marvel as he travels far and wide to seek out experts on various topics related to Jesus' resurrection, asking a handful of superficially interesting questions, and then quickly moving on to other things. Will Christianity stand up to scrutiny? Let's put it this way: 60% of the time, the skeptic converts every time. Also: Dan, Ryan, and Alexa consider the case for Christ, but then they make their own case for remaking this movie with the Muppets and Tim Curry.…
Die Hard on a plane, but with the rapture! If there's one thing we can't get enough of, it's movies about the rapture that are set mostly on an airplane where the central premise of the film is treated as a surprise plot twist near the end. Sadly, this movie does not feature Nicolas Cage, but it does have Eric Roberts, who is almost as good! Basically, some guy named Chad gets the mark of the beast injected into him. It's less of a "mark" than it is a "poorly explained plot device." All Chad needs to do is take an airplane ride, but it turns out to be more complicated than he realizes. Will he ever make it to Berlin? Will he be able to save the plane? Will the plane be able to land? Will he be able to disarm the bomb? Will he be able to stop the bad guys from setting off the other bomb? Will he be able to escape the fury of Eric Roberts? Will he be able to get into the plane's cockpit? Will he put his faith in Jesus? Will his brother be able to hail a cab without dying the most embarrassing death possible? The movie will answer some of these questions.…
مرحبًا بك في مشغل أف ام!
يقوم برنامج مشغل أف أم بمسح الويب للحصول على بودكاست عالية الجودة لتستمتع بها الآن. إنه أفضل تطبيق بودكاست ويعمل على أجهزة اندرويد والأيفون والويب. قم بالتسجيل لمزامنة الاشتراكات عبر الأجهزة.