The Doctor Show

“The Doctor Show,” a weekly 3-hour medical call-in radio program hosted by Alan Blum, MD on all-news station WNWS 790 in Miami, aired from April 1978 to July 1979. The program was named the top radio talk show in the American Medical Association’s first National Physician Speaker Competition. Dr. Blum also wrote and recorded over 300 daily 2-minute feature stories–“DOC’s SuperHealth Spot”–that were broadcast during the daily morning “drive time.”

Introduction by Dr. Alan Blum, MD (##:##)

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“An Article By Some Fellow Named Blum”

Letter
Charles Kappes to Alan Blum
WNWS 790 AM
August 7, 1979

Clean Living Doctor Show Reaches 50

Article
UM Med Apprentice
October, 1978

Clean Living Doctor Show Reaches 50

Press Release
WNWS 790 AM
1978

“Dr. Allen Blum Whose Doctor Show Has Been Given An Hour-Long Spot”

Article
Sherry Woods
The Miami News
1970s

How Can A Radio Station Give You More News Than All The News

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WNWS 790
1970s

The Doctor Show

List of Programs
WNWS 790 AM
1978-1979

The Killer Habits

Transcript
WAGA Atlanta
October, 1974

You’re From an Age That No Longer Exist

Letter
Dick Casper to Alan Blum
June 6, 1979

Doctors Ought to Care

Forty Years of Advocacy

1977-2017

Doctors Ought to Care was the first physician-led anti-smoking organization. Founded in 1977 by Dr. Alan Blum and with the support and tireless efforts of many others DOC became a leader in anti-smoking and health promotion. The DOC Timeline tracks the unique approach that Doctors Ought To Care took to combating the smoking pandemic

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