Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy patients stop trusting doctors who listened to them
A patient says her hip has hurt for a while. Whether she leaves trusting her doctor depends on what happens next. Alan P. Feren, a retired surgeon, h…
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Some relationships work like medicine. Others work like a diagnosis.
A patient came in with weight gain nobody could explain. Every test came back fine. Shiv K. Goel is a board-certified internal medicine and functiona…
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Food allergies are treated differently, airline by airline
A doctor cracked open an airplane emergency kit and found a sticker saying there was no epinephrine inside. Lianne Mandelbaum, president of No Nut Tr…
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Staying salaried may now be the riskier bet for doctors
An eye surgeon who used to see forty patients a day now sees one to three in a morning, and he has no staff. Oren Fass, a board-certified ophthalmolo…
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Doctors' kids miss them, and the family builds its own fixes
A surgeon's kids FaceTime him from their iPads while he is in the operating room, and he cannot pick up. Alyssa Kressel, a strategic communications p…
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Why exhaustion can make you see things that aren't there
You drive home after a long shift and see someone standing at the roadside. It turns out to be a sign. Chinelle Miller had that happen more than once…
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Making AI work for physicians
Doctors have heard promises about health technology for decades. Now artificial intelligence has to deliver something better than what health care al…
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Why business pressure and threats ended a career she loved
She loved the job for 20 years. She left anyway. Christine King, certified registered nurse anesthetist, returns to explain what changed in the opera…
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Retirement isn't the end of medicine, it's a second act
Many doctors picture themselves practicing until the day they die. Andrea Hayes decided otherwise, and tells you what came next. She is a retired end…
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Blaming the doctor is cheaper than fixing the record system
A pediatrician gave a child vaccines the chart said he needed. The record showing he had already had them was buried in the system. Dennis Hursh is a…
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