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492 - Book Club—Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER with Dr. Thomas Fisher
Season 6 Episode 492
Some of the greatest societal inequities are evident in emergency rooms. ER physician Dr. Thomas Fisher, author of Emergency: A Year of Healing and H…
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus - Microchipping, Conspiracy Theories, Ivermectin, and More: Dr. Josh Sharfstein Answers Viewer Questions Live on C-SPAN
Season 6
In April, Dr. Josh Sharfstein appeared on the Washington Journal segment of C-SPAN to talk about the podcast and answer questions from callers live o…
4 years, 2 months ago
491 - What’s Happening in Florida? Politics, COVID Vaccines, and the Firing of Dr. Lisa Gwynn
Season 6 Episode 491
Dr. Lisa Gwynn, president of the Florida chapter of the American Academic of Pediatrics and a professor at the University of Miami Miller School of M…
4 years, 2 months ago
490 - Urban Heat Islands: Why Is It So Much Hotter in Cities Than Suburbs?
Season 6 Episode 490
Lack of green space, abundant concrete, and building materials that trap heat all contribute to why cities are often as much as 10 degrees warmer tha…
4 years, 2 months ago
489 - Book Club—Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe with Keith O'Brien
Season 6 Episode 489
In the late 1970s, residents of a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York learned their community was built on a toxic waste dump that …
4 years, 2 months ago
Bonus - Tradeoffs Special Episode: Medical Respite—Too Healthy to be Hospitalized But Too Sick to be Unhoused
Season 6
In a special episode, Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein talks about medical respite, a program for people who are too healthy to be hospitalized but too …
4 years, 2 months ago
488 - An Update on Omicron Subvariants with Dr. Andy Pekosz
Season 6 Episode 488
There are now five versions of omicron circulating, and each subvariant is as distinct as what we used to label totally different variants. Virologis…
4 years, 2 months ago
487 - Friday Q&A: Dr. Crystal Watson Returns to Answer Your COVID-19 Questions
Season 6 Episode 487
Why was smallpox eradicated but COVID-19 can’t be? What do we know about the risks of long COVID and omicron? Is it ok to use expired rapid tests? Is…
4 years, 3 months ago
Bonus - A Conversation With an Mpox Patient
Season 6
When Matt Ford, an actor, writer, and video producer in LA, had flu-like symptoms a few weeks ago, he never would have suspected mpox if a close cont…
4 years, 3 months ago
486 - Special Episode: Public Health In the Field—Did COVID Change Tourism for Good?
Season 6 Episode 486
COVID-19 sent shock waves through the tourism industry, shutting down the economic engine of many popular destinations. But for some residents and to…
4 years, 3 months ago