Doctors on TV

Dr. Farrell was on Fox 6 Wake Up this morning, along with Angela Gill, a research associate who also has sickle cell disease. The intention, at least from our perspective, was to tell people about this event we are holding tomorrow to solicit community input on a new communication research project. We want to get community input on how they would want to hear about newborn screening results from their doctor, what information the patients would want to know.

Of course, talking about counseling isn't sexy. But talking about disease, and pain, and children having strokes, now that's good television. So the anchor steered it more towards the disease itself than we would have liked, rather than about the counseling process and the community event. But Dr. Farrell and Angela both managed to bring it back to the event, and we got a least one phone call about the event because of the appearance. And it was kind of entertaining. And apparently Dr. Farrell's three kids were thoroughly impressed that dad was on television. Not bad for a day's work.