Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHospice waits on a court order when no family can speak for you
A man is dying. He cannot speak, and no one in his life can say what he would have wanted. Kirsten Engel is a palliative medicine physician, and Medh…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
Signs of depression families miss, and the stigma behind it
Someone you love says they are fine. They still eat, they still go to work, and no one asks a second time. Nneka Oluoha is an internal medicine physi…
3 weeks ago
Hospitals are replacing bedside ICU doctors with a video screen
A young mother arrived in the intensive care unit sick but improving. Overnight, her care was handed to a telemedicine physician on a video screen. B…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Doctors hide their PTSD out of fear for their license
A trauma surgeon spent two decades on call for the worst nights of other people's lives. Then he ran his hospital's pandemic response. Then he could …
3 weeks, 2 days ago
ICU telemedicine done right is a program, not a doctor on a screen
A patient in intensive care gets worse at 2 a.m., and the hospital has no critical care doctor in the building. Chris Gallagher, a cardiologist and f…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Why women doctors leave in their forties and what keeps them
Women physicians are walking away from practice in their forties, and not because they stopped loving the work. Dawn Sears is a gastroenterologist of…
3 weeks, 4 days ago
Loneliness, not weakness, is driving women out of medicine
Medical training hands you a ready-made group of friends. Then it ends, and many women physicians find themselves starting over alone in a new city. …
3 weeks, 5 days ago
Diagnosing the data: Applying clinical rigor to AI adoption
Fear of AI is not the problem. Refusing to test it is. Eric Jennings, a board-certified, fellowship-trained ophthalmologist and the senior medical di…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Why more medicine isn't making us healthier
America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internis…
4 weeks ago
Amazon and Uber set the bar that primary care is judged against
A car shows up when you click a button and groceries arrive by tonight, but a doctor's appointment takes weeks. Payam Zamani started MY DR NOW while …
4 weeks, 1 day ago