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America's Dental Care Crisis

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Tags: dental care, crisis, Florida, Frontline, PBS, Miles O'Brien, death, bankruptcy

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up today we’ll talk about the dental crisis facing the country- it’s the topic of a new documentary tonight on PBS. We’ll also discuss yesterday’s Supreme Court Decision on Arizona’s controversial immigration law……

While we await the Supreme Court decision’s on President Obama’s health care reform plan—there’s another aspect of health care that’s rarely discussed- dental care.

Dental care can be a matter of life and death. Y...

Psychiatrist discusses "terror" of dying listen

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Tags: death, Dr. Irvin Yalom

Dr. Irvin Yalom is the author of Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.

In it, Yalom, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the Stanford University School of Medicine, confronts the demanding challenge that everybody faces: overcoming the terror of death.

In the second part of an interview we conducted earlier this month, WMNF spoke with Dr. Yalom.

Author studies how we cope with death

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Irvin Yalom is a professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and the author of the new book, Staring At the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death.

In the book, Yalom writes about "the refusing of the loan of life, to avoid the debt of death.”

Please listen to a future WMNF newscast to hear the second part of our interview.

You can learn more about Professor Yalom at Yalom.com.