Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood pressure?
Series: Ask the Librarian
From: Jackson Braider
Length: 00:04:23
In libraries as in life, there are specialties and specialists of all stripes. Martha Stone is Coordinator for Reference Services at Treadwell Library at the celebrated Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. As you might expect, given where she works, people tend to ask Martha health-related questions. Beyond dealing with the question -- will green tea help my high blood pressure? -- Martha provides insights into the uses of the web and the power of the printed word.
Picked up in a previous version by WYSO.
Two versions offered following Dmae Roberts' comments: Segment 1 contains music; Segment 2 is music-free.
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Piece Description
In libraries as in life, there are specialties and specialists of all stripes. Martha Stone is Coordinator for Reference Services at Treadwell Library at the celebrated Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. As you might expect, given where she works, people tend to ask Martha health-related questions. Beyond dealing with the question -- will green tea help my high blood pressure? -- Martha provides insights into the uses of the web and the power of the printed word.
Picked up in a previous version by WYSO.
Two versions offered following Dmae Roberts' comments: Segment 1 contains music; Segment 2 is music-free.
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Review of Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood pressure? rev.Well produced and informative. Good music. What a great idea for a series: talk to librarians -- such great resources... so under-appreciated. Not only interesting for its answer to the question posed in its title, but useful for its citation of medically-respected resources that any listener can tap into. Could be shortened a little as the search for the green tea answer drags a bit, but a nice consumer-oriented piece. |
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Review of Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood pressI think this is great idea for a regular series. Librarians are underrated and perhaps the smartest people around. They can find an answer for any question and more efficiently than google. I love the opening music and Jackson Braider is a great host/narrator. The original description says though that it's a series of 3:30 pieces and I think that time would be better. This piece could be shortened a bit. Also, the mix between the narrator's voice and that of the librarian could be leveled out more. She sounded too much in the background. Still, this is a great module that could be aired as a stand alone piece or within a magazine show. I do think that there should be a version without the music and the SOQ out at the end rather than at the intro at the beginning. This would give the series more flexibility to be aired within magazines. I hope to hear more of these piece... |
Transcript
Today, our visit to the reference desk takes us to one of the premiere medical facilities in the United States, where we meet:
0:51: Martha Stone. I’m coordinator for reference services at Treadwell Library at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Martha Stone spends her days answering questions from the personnel and patients at Mass General. Recently, a visitor to the hospital asked Martha this:
Is green tea good for hypertension?
Seems simple enough: Hypertension is medical code for high blood pressure. As for green tea, there are those who claim that it is the homeopathic equivalent of aspirin – it will cure any ill.
But as we’ll see, simple questions do not always get simple answers.
Located off the main quad of the old hospital, the Treadwell is filled with encyclopedias and dictionaries, handbooks and periodicals, medical texts and even ag...
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Regis Smith
Posted on September 19, 2004 at 01:40 PM | Permalink
Review of Ask the Librarian: Will green tea treat my high blood press
This short piece is very neat. Anyway, I was hoping that the answer to the title would be 'yes' since I drink green tea occasionally. However. it turns out this piece is about the steps a librarian takes to research the question. The static references she has are inadequate, so she ends up searching research papers. Very nice. I would expect this show to be underrated generally, but it is something that many people should hear, especially because it shows the librarian consulting numerous resources. This in itself is useful for educating people about the research process, in my opinion.