First Opinion Podcast
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Episodes: 152
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A weekly podcast about the people, issues and ideas that are shaping health care.
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The revolution in dementia care is just beginning
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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‘Where’s our CRISPR miracle?’
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Why beagles are the No. 1 dog for medical research
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Fighting anti-vax bills in a red state — and winning
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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James Watson’s lifelong friend and protégé on his complicated legacy
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Is it ever OK for doctors to ‘fake’ CPR?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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A ‘devil’s choice’ on vaccines and pandemic preparedness
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Would you contract dysentery for $7,300?
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Former acting CDC director on public health changes: ‘absolutely heartbreaking’
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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When patients refuse cancer treatment
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Social media star Dr. Noc on the value of edutainment
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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New season coming soon
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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From Say More: “The C-Word: Stories of Cancer”
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May 29, 2025 |
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130: The biggest questions facing regenerative medicine
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May 28, 2025 |
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129: How photography helped heal a couple in the aftermath of cancer
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May 21, 2025 |
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From KFF Health News: 'What the Health?'
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May 16, 2025 |
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128: A libertarian vision for U.S. health care
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May 14, 2025 |
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127: The doctor is in. So is their AI
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May 07, 2025 |
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126: The end of the medical school cadaver lab?
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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125: The ‘yes, and’ approach to dementia care
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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124: Why cats are so vulnerable to H5N1 bird flu
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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123: The invisibility of good public health work
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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From Tradeoffs: Medicare and Medicaid Under Dr. Oz
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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122: A former HHS secretary's fears for America's future
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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121: The neurosurgeon on call for 'Severance'
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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120: The kids’ doctors aren’t all right
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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119: Carl Zimmer on Covid, singing, and going ‘Air-Borne’
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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118: Dr. Glaucomflecken uses humor to spotlight the darkness in medicine
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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From the archives: The power, and limits, of the placebo effect
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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117: ADHD is this scientist’s ‘superpower’
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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116: How chaplains help to heal 'spiritual injury'
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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115: Paying a visit to ‘Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory’
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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114: Getting creative with health care in a new Trump administration
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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113: How your genetics could determine your politics
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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112: Abortion is just another part of medicine
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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111: No one wants to talk about Medicare policy
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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110: Mark Cuban has no doubt he can disrupt health care
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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109: Why a science magazine went political
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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108: How the 2024 election gets mental health right — and wrong
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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107: Empathy should be the first response to people with vaccine injury, fears
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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106: Anthony Fauci on presidents, bird flu, and turning down a multimillion-dollar job
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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105: Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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104: Rep. Diana DeGette on why reproductive freedom must be protected
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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103: Long Covid can be scarier than a gun to the head
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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102: Paying off people's medical debt won't fix our broken health care system
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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101: Among pregnant people, active treatment for addiction shouldn’t trigger a call to child protective services
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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100: What happens when kids become caregivers?
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May 29, 2024 |
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99: A conversation with researcher Kevin Esvelt on the urgency of improving biosecurity measures
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May 22, 2024 |
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98: Free medical tuition alone isn't enough to close gaps in primary care
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May 15, 2024 |
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97: Why rehabilitation engineers need to listen to patients and their families
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May 08, 2024 |
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96: How a new death penalty method undermines physician authority
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May 01, 2024 |
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95: Racism infects neuroscience’s past and present. What about its future?
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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94: When do tests hurt more than they help?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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93: Rep. Raul Ruiz on going from the emergency room to Congress
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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92: What we take for granted after 30 years of Prozac
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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91: Living in cancer limbo
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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90: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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89: Putting an end to a racist "diagnosis"
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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88: Sniffing out the power, and limits, of the placebo effect
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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87: Why don’t the rules of war protect health care workers and facilities in Gaza?
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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85: How the Wegovy shortage is hurting one patient's health
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Introducing: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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84: How two abortion providers grapple with their post-Roe reality
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Introducing: Say More, from Globe Opinion
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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83: Why physicians should let patients call them by their first names
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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82: How dance helped one nurse heal from trauma, and help others
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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81: One Duchenne patient's bittersweet hope for new treatment
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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80: Is the medical system ready for Alzheimer's drugs that work?
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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79: Cancer drug shortages should be causing more outrage
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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78: How to save PrEP access — and even expand it
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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77: Physicians have an obligation to get into "good trouble"
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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76: Why forced treatment can't fix substance use disorder
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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75: Ezekiel J. Emanuel explains why cancer patients shouldn’t pay out-of-pocket costs
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May 30, 2023 |
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74: How 'screen and refer' systems fail to help patients
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May 24, 2023 |
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73: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?
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May 17, 2023 |
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72: The coercion built into medical privacy consent forms
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May 10, 2023 |
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71: Two medical residents debate their hospital's unionization drive
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May 03, 2023 |
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70: Big changes for First Opinion
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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69: The real experts are people living with mental illness
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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68: LIVE from Boston, Jay Baruch returns
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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67: Covid is not a 'racial equity success story'
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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66: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here's hoping
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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65: Home health care is facing devastating 'clawbacks'
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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64: What makes food 'healthy' and why nutrition isn't a priority in the U.S. economy
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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63: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be worse.
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Oct 12, 2022 |
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62: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what's "primarily medical in nature"
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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61: How the Dobbs decision's could affect clinical trials
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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60: Polio is back in the U.S. Two physicians offer ways to fight its spread
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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59: A pediatric doctor on the life-or-death decisions some prospective parents must make
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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58: A doctor with ALS laments a slow pace for drug approval
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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57: Covid-19 is leaving millions of orphaned children behind
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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56: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians
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May 25, 2022 |
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Episode 55: The faces of Covid after one million deaths
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May 18, 2022 |
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Episode 54: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat
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May 11, 2022 |
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Episode 53: How should doctors treat pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?
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May 04, 2022 |
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52: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Episode 51: Covid turned the nation's eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Episode 50: Where are all the psychiatrists?
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Episode 49: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Episode 48: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — thousands of miles apart
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Episode 47: Pharma markets drugs to young adults, so why aren't they included in trials?
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Episode 46: The 'underground market' for insulin and diabetes supplies
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Episode 45: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Episode 44: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Looking back on the first year of 'First Opinion Podcast'
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Episode 43: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can't advocate for themselves
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Episode 42: A public health expert passes on football's full body collisions for youth
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Episode 41: Who owns your health data — and why you should care
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Episode 40: A resident physician on the fire that burned him out
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Episode 39: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Episode 38: An antibiotic expert on her body's stinging betrayal
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Episode 37: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of 'curating' natural deaths and executions
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Episode 36: A Filipinx physician on the health disparities disguised by data
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Episode 35: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Episode 34: An Alzheimer's scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Episode 33: A reporter and a reader on rethinking how we gain weight
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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Episode 32: An organizer and a physician on how climate change puts pregnant people at risk
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Episode 31: A scientist-parent on back-to-school season with Delta
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Episode 30: An ICU physician on the dark side of mechanical ventilators
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Episode 29: A father on the legacy of his son's ultra-rare disease
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Episode 28: An ENT physician & patient on the high cost of hearing loss
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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Episode 27: Two physicians on breakthrough Covid-19 cases
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Episode 26: A cancer survivor on how to keep surviving
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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Episode 25: A journalist on what the Vietnam war taught us about addiction
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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Episode 24: Ezekiel Emanuel on vaccine mandates
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Episode 23: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Episode 22: A biostatistician on the "gold mine" in our sewers
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Episode 21: A sister on watching the mental health care system fail her brother
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Episode 20: Priscilla Chan on pediatric biology and research: "Children are not tiny adults"
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Episode 19, Part 1: An original believer on the aducanumab decision
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Episode 19, Part 2: A reluctant prescriber on the aducanumab decision
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Episode 18: An advocate & a psychiatrist on physician suicide
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Episode 17: A nurse & a physician on harnessing nurses' potential
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Episode 16: Danielle Ofri on her postmortem folder
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May 26, 2021 |
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Episode 15: Chelsea Clinton on public health crises like fracking, oxygen shortages
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May 19, 2021 |
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Episode 14: A veteran health reporter on the brutality of India's Covid-19 crisis
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May 12, 2021 |
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Episode 13: A physician and a philosopher on long Covid’s mind-body mystery
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May 05, 2021 |
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Episode 12: Jonathan Jones on how epidemics won the Civil War
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Episode 11: Lubab al-Quraishi on how the US mistreats foreign physicians
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Episode 10: Jennifer Brody and Ayana Jordan on "excited delirium"
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Episode 9: David Hyun and Rachel Zetts on antimicrobial resistant superbugs
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Episode 8: Jason Karlawish and an Alzheimer's caregiver on dementia's ripple effect
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Episode 7: Kara Zivin on seeing her own struggle reflected in Meghan Markle's testimony
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Episode 6: Uché Blackstock on diversity in medicine and a ‘life-altering’ decision
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Episode 5: Walter Isaacson on CRISPR rivals and a Covid truce
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Episode 4: Haider Warraich on how hospitals treat the community
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Episode 3: Catherine Mezzacappa and Ruth Faden on vaccinating while pregnant
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Episode 2: Lauren Powell on the intersection of Covid-19 and racism
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Episode 1: Jay Baruch on writing and medicine
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Coming Soon: First Opinion Podcast
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Jan 26, 2021 |