MedPod Today | from MedPage Today
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsMedPod Today is a podcast from MedPage Today where leading healthcare professionals and our seasoned reporters discuss the latest news and trends in the medical world. The podcast will feature diverse content, from our poignant medical story-telling show, Anamnesis, to reporter roundtables where our writers dive deeper into some of our most compelling healthcare stories. The podcast will also spotlight clinician conversations with our Editor-In-Chief, Jeremy Faust, MD.
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MedPod Today Deep Dive: What’s The Matter With For-Profit Nursing Schools? (Part Two)
April 22, 2024 12:10 - 19 minutes - 26.5 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters dive deep into the world of for-profit nursing programs based on MedPage Today reporter Shannon Firth's series "What's the Matter With For-Profit Nursing Programs?" Here's part one (context), part two (Stratford University), part three (HCI College), and part four (Aspen University) of that series. Episode produced and hosted by Ra...
MedPod Today Deep Dive: What’s The Matter With For-Profit Nursing Schools? (Part One)
April 19, 2024 11:29 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters dive deep into the world of for-profit nursing programs based on MedPage Today reporter Shannon Firth's series "What's the Matter With For-Profit Nursing Programs?" Here's part one (context), part two (Stratford University), part three (HCI College), and part four (Aspen University) of that series. Episode produced and hosted by Ra...
MedPod Today: Anti-DEI Rep at Med Meeting; Private Equity Probe; Delayed Rankings
April 12, 2024 10:53 - 10 minutes - 15 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how an anti-DEI legislator has not been disinvited from speaking at a medical conference, a Senate investigation into some private equity companies that own emergency department staffing firms, and why we still haven’t seen the “Best Medical Schools” rankings yet. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engi...
MedPod Today: IMGs Skip Residency? Butt Lift Gone Wrong; Medicine's Gender Gap
March 29, 2024 11:27 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss international medical graduates and residency, a Miami doctor facing complaints related to a Brazilian butt lift gone wrong, and new research on gender and sexual harassment during internship and the gender pay gap in medicine. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Ra...
MedPod Today: AAMC Leaked Emails; 'Wild West' of Ketamine; MA Games the System
March 15, 2024 10:30 - 12 minutes - 17.5 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss leaked emails from the AAMCthat reveal concern about an exodus from the standard residency application pathway, the APA’s thoughts on the rise of ketamine clinics, and a conversation about Medicare Advantage she had with Don Berwick, MDRachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Rachael Robertson, Cheryl ...
Rx for Reality: Clinicians Confront Medical Gaslighting
March 01, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes - 63 MBBy way of introduction, here at Anamnesis — this is a medical podcast, but its one that isn’t about the pure medicine. Because sometimes medicine — the practice of medicine — is actually kind of simple. There’s drugs, there’s labs, there’s imaging, there’s research studies, trials, evidence-based medicine. Even if the actual content isn’t perfectly simple, there is a paradigm for the practice of medicine that is actually, in many ways, quite black and white. But what gets us going at Anamnesi...
MedPod Today: Are MA 'Extras' Used? USMLE Cheating Scandal; Keto for Mental Health
March 01, 2024 10:55 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss whether people actually use their Medicare Advantage benefits, the recent USMLE cheating scandal and the class action lawsuit that came out of it , and how the ketogenic diet might have some surprising uses for treating mental health conditions.Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Rachael Robertso...
What to Know About the Factor XIa Inhibitors on the Horizon
February 27, 2024 13:22 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBA novel class of antithrombotic medication, the factor XIa inhibitors, has had a rocky start but is powering through phase III trials, which are now underway. MedPage Today sat down to discuss the novel agents with Graeme Hankey, MBBS, MD, of the University of Western Australia School of Medicine & Pharmacology and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, both in Perth, Australia. He’s also co-chair of the Secondary Stroke Prevention Executive Committee and the Program Executive Council for the Librexi...
MedPod Today: Medicare Advantage Woes, Double Billing, NHPI Health Disparities
February 02, 2024 12:24 - 13 minutes - 18.5 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week on the pod we discuss a recent interview with the head of the agency that advisoes Congress on Medicare, some instances of double billing patients, and the story of one physician-scientist changing the narrative surrounding NHPI health disparitiesRachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Rachael Robertson, Cheryl Clark, and Jennifer...
MedPod Today: Residency Application Updates; Doc Discipline; Vacation and Burnout
January 19, 2024 11:51 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss some updates on residency application prices and other changes to the process,” a doctor who got disciplined for spewing COVID misinformation, and a new study that found doctors especially should actually relax on their vacationsRachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Rachael Robertson, Kristina Fi...
MedPod Today: Long COVID and Stem Cells; An Unusual Pregnancy; New Cannabinoids
December 22, 2023 08:30 - 10 minutes - 9.61 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how stem cell companies are marketing to long COVID patients ,” a rare case of abdominal ectopic pregnancy where the patient and baby both survived, and how Americans are using emerging cannabinoidsRachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Rachael Robertson, Kristina Fiore, and Michael DePeau Wilson.
MedPod Today: Rare "Long Vax" Cases; Macchiarini's Missteps; AI Cloned Docs' Voice
December 08, 2023 12:03 - 10 minutes - 14 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a rare syndrome following COVID vaccination that some are calling “long vax,” why people are talking about disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a decade after his experiments on patients first came to light, and a doctor who claims her voice was cloned by AI for an advertisement. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Ro...
MedPod Today: So-Called 'Abortion Reversal'; CMS Cuts; Tinnitus After COVID Vax
November 10, 2023 08:22 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a legal battle in Colorado over whether or not the state can ban so-called medication abortion reversal, a new CMS rule that includes Medicare pay cuts, and one doctor who got tinnitus shortly after a COVID vaccineRachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Rachael Robertson, Joyce Frieden, and Jennif...
MedPod Today Ep. 6: COVID Rundown; Shady Medicare Advantage Ads; RIP 'Excited Delirium'
October 27, 2023 08:17 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss changes in COVID peak viral load, how long kids are contagious, and the latest COVID variant. Plus, several issues with Medicare Advantage advertising and an update on the loaded term 'excited delirium' -- and why medical professionals aren’t using it anymore. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engine...
Breaking Point: Why We Become Activists
October 20, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes - 64.4 MBIt's the podcast about the practice of medicine, the art of medicine, the experience of medicine -- not the science of it. Not the nitty-gritty drugs, not the procedures, the parts of science that were on pathophys [pathophysiology] exams. But it does mean we need to think beyond just the bedside sometimes. What are the things that trigger us? What are the things that take away from what we can do and what we want to do at the bedside? What are ways that we can mitigate it, that we can impro...
MedPod Today Ep. 5: Interpreting COVID Rapid Tests; Medical Meeting Scams; Shadow Work
October 13, 2023 12:05 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss n the details you may not have known to look foropens in a new tab or window on your at-home COVID tests, a scam impacting medical meetings, and the latest pop psychology craze sweeping TikTok. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Michael DePeau-Wilson, Sophie Putk...
MedPod Today Ep. 4: Surprise Medical Bill, GLP-1 Agonist Plateau, Grateful Patient Fundraising
September 29, 2023 12:02 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how a Medicare switch led to a massive surprise medical bill, the GLP-1 agonist plateau no one's talking about, and a new position statement on Grateful Patient Fundraising. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Cheryl Clark, Sophie Putka, and Michael DePeau-Wilson.
MedPod Today Ep. 3: New CDC Goals, Hospital Hires AI Job, and Med Student Mental Health
September 15, 2023 13:35 - 12 minutes - 17.6 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss the CDC Director's plan to build trust, the first artificial intelligence job at a hospital, and mental health coverage for med students. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Michael DePeau-Wilson and Sophie Putka.
MedPod Today Ep. 2: Texas Abortion Ban Fallout, Movie Docs, and Fall COVID Shots
September 01, 2023 12:11 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss abortion care, doctors in movies, and fall boosters. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson. Sound engineering by Greg Laub. Reporting by Sophie Putka, Rachael Robertson, and Kristina Fiore.
MedPod Today Ep. 1: The Medical Misinformation Mess
August 23, 2023 13:41 - 10 minutes - 14 MBMedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss recent cases of doctors spreading fake news. Featured Stories: Story one, story two, story three, and story four. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson Sound engineering by Greg Laub Reporting by Kristina Fiore, Michael DePeau-Wilson, Rachael Robertson, and Jennifer Henderson
Is There a Doctor in the House?
July 21, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBThis is a podcast about the other parts of medicine. Not the drugs, or the latest clinical trial, or the how-to-schedule-your-clinic sort of best-practice discussions, but it’s the place that we talk about medicine and what keeps us coming back for it. It’s the ‘je ne sais quoi’ that makes it special, that lets us forgive it for all its faults and that lets us continue to love it for what it is. Every episode, we cover three stories around a central theme in medicine and storytelling. Our the...
Mysteries: Cracking the Complex Case
April 07, 2023 10:30 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MBAnamnesis is where we celebrate the parts of medicine that don’t always hit the limelight. It’s not about the newest drugs or the latest how-to on the cool procedure — this is where we talk about the medicine behind medicine — what keeps us going in this field. And what keeps us going in medicine. Here on this episode, we have three doctors sharing their mysteries — follow along as you watch them hunt and put together clues to finally crack the mystery. Chapter 1: Prepare for the Worst, Hope...
One Addiction Clinic, Five Stories of Perseverance
January 17, 2023 15:00 - 25 minutes - 35 MBThis Anamnesis episode follows Michelle Jobes, PhD, CIP, a clinical research specialist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Maryland, as she recounts the experiences of five patients she’s worked alongside to help overcome substance use. Bittersweet Holidays (8:57) When Perseverance Pays Off (10:40) Inspiring Others Through Art (12:47) The ‘Mayor’ (14:32) An Unexpected Package (16:24) Never Forgotten (18:00) Episode produced by Brendan Murphy Sound engineering by Greg Laub Theme musi...
A Nurse. A Pandemic. An Addiction.
February 11, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBOver the holidays, a nurse in recovery from opioid use disorder struggled to keep her addiction in check. She was caring for coronavirus patients on the front lines in an ICU outside Seattle. She asked her hospital for more support, and received little. She reached out to her family, but that just made things worse. On Sunday, January 3, 2021, Tiffany Swedeen relapsed. Tiffany's story highlights the fact that when it comes to substance use disorders, our healthcare system has one standard fo...
Scar Tissue: Emotional Vulnerability in Clinical Practice
December 10, 2021 11:00 - 41 minutes - 57.6 MBOur theme this month is "Scar Tissue." And I don’t mean the surgical scar tissue, the ones from the fall we took ice skating when we were 6, or the ones we give patients when we take out their appendixes or sew up their lacerations — this is about the emotional vulnerability that we all have in clinical practice — and that accepting what we feel is the first step in healing. Now, this is a hard one for us as clinicians. We all fancy ourselves healers — but don’t always like to acknowledge t...
Heal Thyself: When Work Hits Home
October 29, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBWhat happens when you become the patient? That's what we're here to explore today -- with this episode's theme: Heal Thyself. Think about it. We diagnose and often intervene with medicines, surgeries, treatments. These interventions generally temporize and support the body, so that the body can heal itself. The concept of "healing" thyself, then, really does often have to accept that modern medicine can't do the healing. Sometimes we have to do it ourselves. And sometimes that's more mind ...
Resilience: Being Tough in Tough Times
September 24, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 62 MBResilience is a core necessity in medicine. Resilience is toughness. Resilience is tenacity. Resilience is recovering and coming back for more. You need resilience to survive the long education and training for nearly every role in medicine. And as a patient, you need resilience to just make it through not only your acute care but the often weeks, months, or years of healing that happen afterward. Day in and day out, we call on our own resilience to get through difficult situations, tragic ...
Winning in Medicine: Victories Large and Small
August 23, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 56 MBThis has been a bit of a tough summer for everyone in healthcare. Our worlds have been a bit topsy-turvy, to say the least. That makes this all the more important of a time to remember to celebrate wins, of all sizes. Times are tough, remember every day of our lives is still riddled with victories. Some are small — a patient who listened to your advice, a colleague who thought you were right, even the warm blanket you brought to a patient that cheered up their day a little bit. Some are big ...
Empathy: The Most Critical Skill in Medicine
July 09, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes - 75.7 MBThere are few things more core to the pillars of medicine than the concept of "empathy." Now empathy is something we hear about from day one in medical school, nursing school, or PA school. Hey, it's even something we hear in pre-med! It's probably something we even wrote about in our admissions essays. And that's because empathy is a critical part of care. You cannot care for a patient if you cannot relate, commiserate, and feel with them. In this episode, three storytellers have their own s...
Eureka: The Moment When It All Clicks
May 07, 2021 16:00 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBThis Anamnesis episode is called “Eureka.” In medicine, a "eureka moment" usually comes for us through special patients. As much as we teach patients, they teach us so much more. Chapter 1. The Death of One Little Girl Helped Millions (4:28): A case more than 35 years ago has spurred discoveries ever since. Story by Kevin Tracey, MD. Chapter 2. Screaming Patient, No Restraints (16:00): A story about empathy in emergency psychiatry. Story by Scott Zeller, MD. Chapter 3. Diagnosing the Mind ...
Abandoned: When You're All Alone
March 08, 2021 16:45 - 40 minutes - 55 MBThis episode on "Abandoned" is about what happens when you are out there all alone -- whether it's because you're physically sequestered, or feeling like it's you versus the establishment, or you versus the world. Those are trying times, but learning ones for everyone involved. Chapter 1. People Died. The Establishment Played Games (3:10): Here's what it took, and how disgracefully long it took, for a simple COVID research project. Story by Martin Makary, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief, MedPage To...
At a Loss: The Hardest Part of Medicine
January 18, 2021 10:00 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBThis Anamnesis episode is called "At a Loss." And that can mean a lot of things -- at a loss for words, at a loss for any certainty, and for us in healthcare, it often means a loss of a patient. Chapter 1. Growing Close Then Saying Goodbye (3:00): How helping a sick colleague became a friendship. Story by Debashish Bose, MD, PhD. Chapter 2. A Broken System Killed My Young Patient (12:15): We've made improvements, but would anyone say it can't still happen? Story by Gregg Miller, MD. Chapter ...
#13 Taboo: Pregnant and Swallowed a Handfuls of Pills; Never Prepared for the Screams; 'Pro-Life' Doc Almost Killed a Pregnant Woman
November 13, 2020 15:30 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB“Taboo” is a really complex concept in medicine. As healthcare workers treating patients, we are, in a way, stewards of secrets — secrets for patients, for our peers, and for our specialties. Chapter One, I Was Pregnant and Swallowed a Handfuls of Pills : (3:23): She wanted to end her life, now she wants to end the stigma surrounding depression. Story by Kara Zivin, PhD, MS, MA. Chapter Two, You’re Never Prepared for the Screams : (13:50): Telling people a loved one died is never easy. Stor...
IDWeek 2020: Bare-Budget Contact Tracing; COVID-19 Fog Over HIV and Opioids
October 26, 2020 15:30 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBResearch presented at the virtual IDWeek conference touched on how COVID-19 has affected a wide swath of issues in infectious diseases, from HIV infections to antibiotic stewardship. Even broader public health issues, such as treating opioid use disorder, were not immune to the pandemic's effects. In this "in-between-isode" of MedPage Today's podcast series, Anamnesis, one of our reporters discusses some of the research spotlighted at the meeting. Episode produced by Molly Walker Hosted and ...
Inbetweenisode: Fauci Dishes on COVID-19 Antibody Therapies
August 31, 2020 13:30 - 6 minutes - 6.14 MBOur infectious disease reporter Molly Walker interviews Anthony Fauci, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director. They discuss a promising line of attack on COVID-19 that has flown under media attention compared with vaccines, convalescent plasma, or hydroxychloroquine. Episode produced by MedPage Staff Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub
#12 Infectious: How COVID Killed My Colleague-Patient; Attacked by Anti-Vaxxers; I Was Right
August 07, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 37.9 MBYou're joining us on Anamnesis, a podcast about medicine ... but the things about medicine that aren't drugs and protocols and studies, the things about medicine that are hard to articulate, that make us come back for more, that keep us engaged in this crazy, mixed-up world we get to participate in, called "caring." Caring for patients, caring for the health of our nation, and caring about our fellow man/woman in healthcare. Care has been more important than ever with everything going on. O...
Title: #11 Stolen Identity: Black Sniper, Black Doctor; From Dead Child to Gun Store; Africa Saved Me
June 26, 2020 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBToday, we’re covering the theme Stolen Identity. Because right now, more than ever, with racism on our minds and protests across the country, identity is all about who we are as a country and as healers. Because in medicine, we interact with all walks of life – all types of ethnicities, of race, of socioeconomic classes. We see cops and prisoners. We see black and white and every color in between. We see rich, we see poor. And in a way, our patients reflect back parts of ourselves, of our own...
#11 Stolen Identity: Black Sniper, Black Doctor; From Dead Child to Gun Store; Africa Saved Me
June 26, 2020 00:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBToday, we’re covering the theme Stolen Identity. Because right now, more than ever, with racism on our minds and protests across the country, identity is all about who we are as a country and as healers. Because in medicine, we interact with all walks of life – all types of ethnicities, of race, of socioeconomic classes. We see cops and prisoners. We see black and white and every color in between. We see rich, we see poor. And in a way, our patients reflect back parts of ourselves, of our own...
#10 Unbroken: I Was Going to Die; On the Edge of a Cliff; They Called Me Houdini
April 10, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBUndoubtedly these are hard times from the world — and particularly medicine. Like many of you, I’m a front-liner as an ER doctor. And we’re all in the same boat. Some of you may be quarantined, some may be sick, some of you may have your work shut down, while others are overwhelmed. These are scary and uncertain times for all and this couldn’t be a better time for this episode of Anamnesis with the theme Unbroken. Because yes, these are trying times, but like you’ve done through trying period...
Inbetweenisode: Women Burned by Quick Fix for Heavy Periods
March 04, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes - 16.5 MBWomen burned by 'quick fix' for heavy periods — For many, 5-minute fix is anything but. In this "in-between-isode" of our podcast Anamnesis, MedPage Today's Editor-in-Chief Marty Makary, MD, MPH, interviews Ali Ghomi, MD, a gynecologic surgeon in Buffalo, New York. Ghomi says a quarter of the hysterectomies he performs each year are to treat post-ablation syndrome. Episode produced by MedPage Staff Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub
#9 Weaponized: What Killer Mom Taught Me; Body Armor Under White Coat; Patient Gone Wild and Violent
February 07, 2020 11:30 - 38 minutes - 34.8 MBWe’re not talking about weapons like scalpels or the other pointy things we wield all of the time. We’re talking Weaponized like violence against physicians, safety in healthcare, and our interactions with crime and the penal system we encounter through our patients. Unfortunately, you don’t have to look far to find stories of violence in our practices. Chapter One, Mom Who Killed Kids Made Me a Better Physician: (3:20) A woman who killed her children made an impression on this young doctor....
Inbetweenisode, Bottle of Lies: Is that a Centipede I See in My Capsule??
January 24, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBSo, you think the FDA is closely regulating all those generic drugs? Think again. Can you handle the truth? In this “in-between-isode” MedPage's new Editor-in-Chief Marty Makary, MD, MPH, interviews author Katherine Eban about her recently published book, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom. Episode produced by MedPage Staff Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub
#8 I Quit: Dying for the Fifth Time; Why I Fled the Country; My Baby, My Nightmare
December 20, 2019 12:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB"I Quit," means many things in medicine. Sometimes it means literally why we quit medicine -- because sometimes we do. It could mean why we quit something else to go into medicine -- because we have plenty of those as well. It could mean our patients saying "I quit" -- and us either supporting them in that or helping to show them the light. For me, I think I've personally cycled through all of those -- had moments where I wanted to quit, had moments where I did quit, and moments where I both...
Inbetweenisode, ASH 2019: "Off the Shelf" Complete Remission, Innovative Sickle Cell Gene Therapy, Making New Meds Fit for Peds
December 12, 2019 16:45 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBORLANDO -- In this in-between-isode, MedPage's Deputy Managing Editor, Ian Ingram, reports highlights presented at ASH 2019, the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology. Investigators presented noteworthy findings on CAR-T for blood cancers, an innovative gene therapy for sickle cell disease, and advancements in making newer therapeutics safely available for pediatric patients with venous thrombosis. Episode produced by Ian Ingram Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub
#7 Got Your Back: Patient Jekyll, Mr. Hyde; Over Her Dead Body; Paralysis to Pen Pal
November 22, 2019 15:03 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBFriendship shows up in sometimes unexpected ways in medicine. There are moments when the nurse can't get an IV, and the doctor steps in with the ultrasound to help, when the tech starts to tire from doing chest compressions and a student steps behind him, ready to take over. These are the signs of a great team, and more importantly than anything, the friendly bonds we share. I highlight the "got your back" of a healthcare team, having the back of one of another for the good of the patient ...
Inbetweenisode, ACG 2019: Colorectal Cancer Rising in Younger Patients; Contaminated Endoscopes; Human Milk Sugars and IBS
November 05, 2019 12:00 - 16 minutes - 22.6 MBOur senior editor dives into the GI hot topics covered at this year's ACG meeting SAN ANTONIO -- This year's American College of Gastroenterology meeting featured noteworthy presentations on topics such as functional bowel disease, eosinophilic esophagitis, and research in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Episode produced by Charles Bankhead Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub
#6 Rebirth: Child DNR Agony; Woman, MD > Doubt; My Best Failure
October 29, 2019 10:03 - 32 minutes - 44.7 MBWe kick off our new season with "Rebirth." Rebirth is an interesting concept in medicine because, for patients, it means one thing. It can mean the patient who hits rock bottom and is finally ready to make a change in their lives. It can mean a new organ in a patient, a literal rebirth for both the donor and the receiver. From the physician side, though, it's a bit different. Some cases, patients, and moments really catapult us into a rebirth because it jars your understanding of yourself and...
Inbetweenisode, IDWEEK 2019: Grindr for HIV prevention?; Measles Outbreak vs. Antivaxxers; Flu shots work.
October 10, 2019 12:30 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBReporter Molly Walker looks at the broad spectrum of infectious disease topics covered at this year's IDWeek meeting. WASHINGTON -- From flu to HIV to the measles outbreak, this year's IDWeek meeting explored noteworthy infectious disease research. Episode produced by Molly Walker Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub Music by Jason Asistores, MD, aka flatfives.
#5 Higher Power: Ghost Dad Summons; Seeking Forgiveness; All I Could Do
July 24, 2019 16:40 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBWe see things that make sense – like “oh you eat a supersize bag of flaming hot Cheetos, and now you have chest pain?” – that makes sense. But sometimes we see things with no explanation, that make no sense, that might make you believe life is unfair, or that give you new hope in the universe. Sometimes we see miracles, sometimes we see tragedies – all with no explanation -- and in those times we just have bewilderment and the stunned feeling of humility, that there are things out of our ...
#5 Higher Power: Ghost Dad Summons; Seeking Forgiveness; All I Could Do
July 24, 2019 16:40 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBWe see things that make sense – like “oh you eat a supersize bag of flaming hot Cheetos, and now you have chest pain?” – that makes sense. But sometimes we see things with no explanation, that make no sense, that might make you believe life is unfair, or that give you new hope in the universe. Sometimes we see miracles, sometimes we see tragedies – all with no explanation -- and in those times we just have bewilderment and the stunned feeling of humility, that there are things out of our cont...