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Opinion: Listen: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians
For two decades, nurses have been considered the most trustworthy professionals in the country, above…
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Opinion: Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting
When Covid-19 began tearing across the U.S. in March 2020, Alex Goldstein started posting on…
Opinion: Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat
Sickness can beget debt, which can then turn around and beget more sickness. That’s the…
Opinion: Listen: How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?
Clinicians walk a tightrope when trying to help their patients with chronic pain. They want…
Opinion: Listen: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone
The rollout of a new mental health crisis line for the entire U.S. is scheduled…
Opinion: Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?
When the Covid-19 pandemic began tearing across the country, it hit nursing homes hard. More…
Opinion: Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?
As a psychiatrist, Christin Drake often turns away potential new patients — there just aren’t…
Opinion: Listen: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?
For trans people who want to receive gender-affirming medical care such as hormone treatments or…
Opinion: Listen: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — 2,000 miles apart
Like many of us, Tom Sequist had no idea what was about to happen as…
Opinion: Listen: Pharma companies market their drugs to young adults — so why don’t they include them in clinical trials?
Sneha Dave has been living with a chronic disease for 17 years — almost her…
Opinion: Listen: The ‘underground market’ for insulin and diabetes supplies
It’s a sad reality that people with diabetes know all too well: The price of…
Opinion: Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’
We started the “First Opinion Podcast” in February 2021 because we knew there was rich,…
Opinion: Listen: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can’t advocate for themselves
Alison Singer learned how to advocate for a child with autism by watching her mother…
Opinion: Listen: A public health expert passes on football’s full body collisions for youth
If there was one moment that led Kathleen Bachynski to a career studying the public…
Opinion: Listen: Who owns your health data — and why you should care
It can be hard to fathom that anyone other than you might own your information….
Opinion: Listen: Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War
Diseases like smallpox, measles, and dysentery killed two-thirds of the 1 million people who died…
Opinion: Listen: A resident physician on the Covid-stoked fire that burned him out
Resident physician Sudhakar Nuti was almost too burnt out to write about burnout. He spent…
Opinion: Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk
Ever since medicine adopted a race-based formula to assess kidney health in the mid-2000s, some…
Opinion: Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal
Natalie Ma knows a lot about antibiotics. She’s familiar with the consequences of antibiotic resistance…
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Opinion: Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions
Americans have a tendency to fixate on what’s commonly thought of of as “a good…
Opinion: Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data
When data shows that Asian Americans are faring better during the pandemic than other racial…
Opinion: Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible
Abortion access is being threatened across the country: Texas has come close to banning abortion as…
Listen: An Alzheimer’s scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates
Although billions of dollars have been poured into potential pharmaceutical cures for dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s…
Opinion: Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine
This week, “First Opinion Podcast” returns to a conversation with emergency physician Uché Blackstock about…
Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking how we gain weight
Research on excess body weight and obesity has long been predicated on the fundamental assumption…
Opinion: Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities
The country is in a climate crisis. California is experiencing its second-largest fire, on the…
Opinion: Listen: A scientist-parent on heading back-to-school with Delta
Alicia Zhou was worried about sending her son, Davi, to in-person first grade this year,…
Opinion: Listen: An ICU physician on the moral dilemmas mechanical ventilators can raise
On the day in 1928 when the inventors of the iron lung wheeled their contraption…
Opinion: Listen: A father describes the legacy of his son’s ultra-rare disease
Bertrand Might was born with a rare disease that had never before been diagnosed, an…
Opinion: Listen: An ENT physician & an advocate on the high monetary and social costs of hearing loss
Although hearing loss is a common aging-related problem, affecting two in three Americans over age…
Opinion: Listen: Two physicians, one of whom had a ‘breakthrough infection,’ on Covid-19 among the vaccinated
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” psychiatrist Stephen Tourjee shares his experience…
Opinion: Listen: A longtime glioblastoma survivor on how to keep surviving
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” writer and philosopher Adam Hayden opens…
Opinion: Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” science journalist and author Lauren Aguirre…
Opinion: Listen: Ezekiel Emanuel on vaccine mandates: ‘Covid might not be done with you’
Are health care workers more obligated than others to get a Covid-19 vaccine? In this…
Opinion: Listen: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.
Why do more women die in and after childbirth in the U.S. than in any…
Opinion: Listen: A biostatistician on the ‘gold mine’ in our sewers
What if every time we went to the bathroom, we could say we contributed to…
Opinion: Listen: A sister on watching the mental health care system fail her brother
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” Lizzy Feliciano talks about her brother,…
Opinion: Listen: Priscilla Chan on pediatric biology and research: ‘Children are not tiny adults’
For this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” I spoke with Priscilla Chan, co-founder…
Opinion: Listen: Two Alzheimer’s experts with opposing viewpoints on Aduhelm
This week’s “First Opinion Podcast” is a special two-part episode focusing on the controversial —…
Opinion: Listen: Healing the healers: An advocate and a psychiatrist on clinicians’ mental health and burnout
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by Corey Feist and Wendy Dean…
Opinion: Listen: A nurse and a physician on harnessing the full potential of nurses
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast,” I’m joined by two members of the National…
Opinion: Listen: Danielle Ofri on Covid surges and her postmortem folder
This week on the “First Opinion Podcast” I’m joined by Danielle Ofri, a physician, writer-editor,…
Opinion: Chelsea Clinton talks fracking, public health, and childhood newsletters
A growing body of research is identifying the health hazards of hydraulic fracturing, better known…
Opinion: Listen: Chelsea Clinton on fracking, oxygen shortages, and other public health crises
Chelsea Clinton joins the “First Opinion Podcast” this week to discuss her work in public…
Opinion: Listen: A veteran health reporter on the brutality of India’s Covid-19 crisis
In this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” reporter and editor Kalpana Jain details how…
Opinion: Listen: A physician and a philosopher on long Covid’s mind-body mystery
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with critical care physician…
Opinion: Listen: A medical historian on infectious diseases as the ‘third army’ of the Civil War
In this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” medical historian Jonathan S. Jones explains the…
Opinion: Listen: A Baghdad-trained physician on the barriers to getting a medical license in the U.S.
In this episode of the First Opinion Podcast, I speak with Lubab al-Quraishi, a Baghdad-trained…
Opinion: Listen: Two addiction specialists debunk the myth of ‘excited delirium’ used in police encounters
In the tenth episode of “The First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with two physicians who…
Opinion: Listen: Antibiotic experts on the threat of antimicrobial resistant superbugs
This week’s “First Opinion Podcast” takes a look at antimicrobial resistance, a topic that should…