PBS Health Diary - Re: Clubfoot/Ponseti method press kit

[Guest guest]

From Feb 26, 2000

A Clarion Call to All Ponseti Promoters:

This morning we came across a show on PBS called Health Diary. It's

a show that does mini documentaries for nationwide broadcasts on

medical/health related issues. The story this morning was about an

elderly surgeon who has spent his life in developing innovative

devices to help heart disease patients. He is highly respected for

his life-long work. Sound familiar? He even looked like Dr.

Ponseti.

Anyway, after a very well done presentation, which highlighted his

many accomplishments, the commentator said, in essence, " We are

continuing to look for stories such as these to make segments on for

future series. " Well, I couldn't find a pencil fast enough to

scribble down the web-site location. and I looked up the web-

site and it looked very promising. The show appears to do 26

episodes a year televised on stations on the country. It's

sponsored by an HMO group and the web site location is

www.healthdiary.com The e-mail address to send stories to is

healthdiary@.... and I quickly revised our Oprah letter

to fit their program's goals and sent it this morning.

Assuming they are not at work over the weekend, they'll most likely

preview our e-mail Monday. Anyone want to join us in sending their

stories as well? If there are multiple stories about the Ponseti

method they may pay more attention.

and Allyson