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Dr. Kerry Forrestal
Actual Factual Medicine
Wednesdays at noon

Dr. Kerry Forrestal, emergency physician, takes on topics from cancer to suicide and examines societal issues and healthcare specifics with medical insider insights.

  • Autism has been in the news, as Autism Spectrum Disorder, with Director of Health and Human Services Director Robert Kennedy Jr. supporting debunked theories that Autism is caussed by vaccines.
  • When it comes to fighting the onslaught of microplastics, Dr. Forrestal recommends ways to approach personal actions, scientific advances, and government policy.
  • The human body attacks foreign objects, so microplastics rear-up the immune system and cause inflammation. And that can cause problems.
  • Nearly invisible, increasingly prevalent microplastics are part of the toxic mix. Part 1 explores how they get into our bodies.
  • Cuts to Medicade are felt by people paying for regular insurance plans, and threaten hospitals and nursing homes.
  • With emergency department victims in mind, Dr. Kerry Forrestal talks about Americans addicted to drugs or alcohol, and our society's judgmental responses to recovering addicts.
  • Dr. Kerry Forrestal tells how measles, once diminished, is now on the rise, and advises what works and what bogus treatments stand in the way of real medicine.
  • Dr. Forrestal explores the con artists' claims that promise to "remove" vaccines from your body, and why anybody would want to.
  • Parents whose infant dies suddenly - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - often carry regret and guilt, feeling they must have missed an opportunity to save their child. In truth, Dr. Forrestal explains, the range of prevention is one thing, but rescuing a dying infant is nearly impossilbe.
  • As more legislators across the US pass laws and restrictions, the very act of practicing medicine can land doctors and other health care providers in jail. Dr. Kerry Forrestal explains.