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Toolkit: Safe Or Not Safe
Can I hug Grandma after her vaccine? It's time for Dr. Bob's first Safe or Not Safe with Drs. Caitlin Rivers and Farzad Mostashari. This time, they cover post-vaccine activities. Can you go to the gy…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Good Healthcare Matters: Lessons from the Pandemic (with Don Berwick)
Dr. Bob dials up Dr. Donald Berwick for a big-picture discussion about improving healthcare – generally, and as it relates to COVID. Don talks about the origins of the patient safety movement, his ti…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
The Case For Reopening Schools (with Emily Oster)
Dr. Bob calls up Brown economist Emily Oster to discuss one of the most complicated and controversial issues of the pandemic: what to do about schools. Emily created the COVID-19 School Response Dash…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
How to Lead During a Crisis (with Sully Sullenberger)
Dr. Bob talks about the importance of leadership, whether it's during a pandemic or a flight that's lost all engine power, with Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. The parallels between the two mig…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Inside Trump's FDA (with Stephen Hahn)
Dr. Bob gets the inside scoop of what went down inside Trump's FDA from the former commissioner himself, Dr. Stephen Hahn. In his first interview since stepping down on January 20th, Steve recounts h…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Is It OK to Hug Your Family after the Vaccine? (with Julia Marcus)
Dr. Bob calls up infectious disease epidemiologist Julia Marcus to discuss risk, a concept many of us thought more about in the past year than ever before. Julia, a Harvard professor and contributor …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Can the CDC Regain Public Trust? (with Julie Gerberding)
Dr. Bob calls up Dr. Julie Gerberding to address vaccines, the CDC, and how public trust factors into both. Julie has vast experience with all of those topics, having served as president of Merck vac…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
Inside the National COVID-19 Plan (with Atul Gawande)
Dr. Bob calls up a friend – Dr. Atul Gawande – to bring clarity and empathy to some pretty complicated issues. Atul, a practicing surgeon and bestselling author, recently finished serving on the Bide…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Toolkit: Where Is My Vaccine?
Now that we are a couple of months into the vaccine rollout, we wanted to answer more of your vaccine-related questions. Dr. Bob asks Paul Offit your questions about what more we've learned about the…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
What Went Wrong in L.A. (And What We’re Hopeful About in D.C.)
On the first day of President Biden's term, Dr. Bob takes a look at the toll the pandemic is having right now in Los Angeles – the epicenter of the nation’s winter surge – with emergency room physici…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago