Latest Humanizing Podcast Episodes
Advances in Alzheimer’s Research
Hear Me Now Podcast - December 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available On today's program, host Seán Collins welcomes Dr. Steven Salloway, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, and David Shenk to discuss recent advances in Alzheimer's research and the possibility of early intervention and prevention. They highlight the significance of targeting amyl...
Advances in Alzheimer���s Research
Hear Me Now Podcast - December 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available �� On today's program, host Se��n Collins welcomes Dr. Steven Salloway, Dr. Rudy Tanzi, and David Shenk to discuss recent advances in Alzheimer's research and the possibility of early intervention and prevention. They highlight the significance of tar...
Race, Healthcare, & Equity: Report Card
Hear Me Now Podcast - December 14, 2023 08:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online �� Today, host Se��n Collins welcomes Dr. Nwando Anyaoku, Chief Health Equity and Clinical Innovation Officer for Providence. They ��discuss the importance of diversity and cultural understanding in healthcare.�� She shares a personal story about a pa...
Gratitude
Hear Me Now Podcast - November 23, 2023 08:05 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation and planning. If you are thinking of harming yourself, please call or text, in English or Spanish, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988. �� Help is available. ��Deaf & hard of hearing Este episodio incluye una discusi��n sobre la id...
A game changing moment in medicine
Hear Me Now Podcast - November 09, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA class of drugs called glucagon-like peptide agonists (GLP-1 agonists) is proving to be beneficial for people with chronic kidney disease and atherosclerotic heart disease. These medications are being called game changers because they not only help with weight loss but also provide org...
Hospice for the unhoused
Hear Me Now Podcast - October 19, 2023 07:05 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsProvidence Hospice, Los Angeles County has launched a program to provide hospice care for homeless people. The program aims to support those experiencing homelessness and facing a terminal illness by providing them with the option of a safe and secure environment to receive holistic car...
Rural healthcare
Hear Me Now Podcast - October 05, 2023 07:05 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online We explore the kind and quality of healthcare available in rural hospitals in an age of growing technological and resource-heavy medicine. Do we risk a two-tiered system where the best care possible is only available in large cities near major medical c...
Innovation in medicine
Hear Me Now Podcast - September 14, 2023 07:05 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available Does it seem counter-intuitive to say that the future of person-centered healthcare is the use of more and more tools utilizing AI, artificial intelligence? Dr. Maulin Shah is Chief Medical Information Officer for Providence and VP of Informatics and ...
Can hospice be saved?
Hear Me Now Podcast - August 24, 2023 07:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available �� At the end of last year, The New Yorker and ProPublica documented fraud and mistreatment in some for-profit hospices across the country. The expos�� shouted something that has been whispered for a long while in circles concerned with the care of th...
Substance use & pregnancy
Hear Me Now Podcast - August 10, 2023 07:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online �� Addiction and overdose rates have reached historic levels in the last several years. And while fentanyl and synthetic opioids are responsible for much of the surge, cocaine and other stimulants such as methamphetamine are playing an increasingly com...
Living with anxiety
Hear Me Now Podcast - July 27, 2023 07:05 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript of this episode is available online ����� A list of mental health resources is available on our website "Everyone has anxiety and you can't really survive childhood without some anxiety," says psychiatrist Dr. Maureen Nash. "It is, at least theoretically, what prevents us ...
Food as medicine
Hear Me Now Podcast - July 13, 2023 07:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online America is obsessed with food. And it's killing us. It's estimated that half of all Americans will be obese within a decade. Overweight and obesity are directly tied to heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, joint disorders, erectile dysfunction, high blood p...
The JUST Birth Network
Hear Me Now Podcast - June 22, 2023 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online An alarming fact about childbirth in America is that after years of decline, the maternal mortality rate has risen for the past 10 years. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that between 800 and 900 women die in the U.S. each year fro...
A woman's heart
Hear Me Now Podcast - June 08, 2023 07:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available For years, heart disease was thought of as "a man's disease." But the truth is quite different and quite sobering: one-in-three women in America dies of heart disease. Symptoms go unnoticed, warning signs are often ignored, and delays in seeking care m...
Clearing the fog
Hear Me Now Podcast - May 25, 2023 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available Early in May 2023, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, announced an end to the COVID-19 Global Health Emergency. But Dr. Ghebreyesus was quick to add that thousands of people were still fighting for their live...
Nurses unmasked
Hear Me Now Podcast - May 11, 2023 07:05 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available. The book from which these reflections are drawn is available to download or read online. . On today's program, we are listening to nurses as they reflect on their experiences on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. These are stories of uncert...
Sickle cell disease
Hear Me Now Podcast - April 27, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder of the blood protein hemoglobin. It has multiple ways to impact the health of someone with the disease ��� with a hallmark symptom being excruciating chronic pain. The vast majority of people with sickle cell...
The challenge of staying home
Hear Me Now Podcast - April 13, 2023 07:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online �� We all know how the classic 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz" ends: Dorothy taps her heals together and reminds herself that 'there's no place like home.' And that's true for many people in need of long-term care. On today's program, two conversations a...
Caring for caregivers
Hear Me Now Podcast - March 23, 2023 07:05 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online . The COVID pandemic showed us how critical the problem of professional fatigue is in healthcare. It has led to early retirement, reduced staffing, and increased costs throughout healthcare systems. But the syndrome that's commonly called "burnout" exi...
Fixing how hospitals work
Hear Me Now Podcast - March 09, 2023 07:37 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online One of the unforeseen consequences of the COVID pandemic has been increasing popular awareness of a nursing shortage that was already well in place. COVID just made it worse. Nurse turnover has cost healthcare organizations enormously ��� both in terms ...
Sesame in Ukraine
Hear Me Now Podcast - February 24, 2023 20:13 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBuilding on their longstanding efforts to meet the educational needs of refugee children, for the first time ever, in Ukraine, the people at Sesame Workshop are producing specialized content for children living in an active war zone.�� In this excerpt from this week's podcast, our host...
Ukraine and civilian war trauma
Hear Me Now Podcast - February 23, 2023 08:05 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCW: war fighting, sexual violence, genocide An online transcript is available . The latest iteration of Russia's war on Ukraine has entered its second year prompting us to examine the issue of war trauma ��� especially the toll war takes on civilians. Russia's indiscriminate targetin...
Doctors and disabilities
Hear Me Now Podcast - February 09, 2023 08:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available More than 60 million Americans live with a disability and that number will grow as the baby boomers continue to age. But new research throws into question whether those people are receiving the best care possible.�� More than four out of five physicia...
Meditation & the brain
Hear Me Now Podcast - January 26, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available �� . There's growing evidence that the routine practice of meditation improves quality of life (including relief from anxiety, increased focus, and the mitigation of negative emotions) and that these benefits can be seen after as few as five sessions ...
Preview: Meditation & the brain
Hear Me Now Podcast - January 19, 2023 01:45 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available �� On the next episode of the HEAR ME NOW Podcast, we'll explore Mindfulness Meditation with three great people who have connections to the practice. �� Dr. Michael Posner is a brain researcher who has demonstrated changes in brain tissue of people ...
Deaf health equity
Hear Me Now Podcast - January 12, 2023 15:23 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings. A video of the episode that includes captioning & ASL interpretation is available online. A transcript is also available.�� . If you take only one fact away from this podcast today, it should be this: more than 30 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, heal...
Well-being & music
Hear Me Now Podcast - December 22, 2022 14:35 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAn online transcript is available�� Complete episode notes can be found here Playlists: ��Apple Music �� ����Spotify �� ����.pdf Trouble listening? Right-click to download an MP3 �� "Self-care" became a common discussion topic at the start of the pandemic to the extent that it's no...
Surgery: Saying so long to the Old Boys' Club
Hear Me Now Podcast - December 08, 2022 15:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online �� Women outnumber men in American medical schools, but in the operating room it's still an Old Boys' Club. Surgery remains a bastion of male privilege, prerogative, and power in American healthcare. But that is changing. On today's program, Se��n talk...
Neurodiversity
Hear Me Now Podcast - November 24, 2022 15:15 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsA transcript is available online . Today we���re tapping the storytelling skills of veteran science and tech reporter, Steve Silberman. In 2015, Silberman���s book NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity was published and soon took a place on The New York T...
The kids aren't all right - Young people and mental health
Hear Me Now Podcast - November 10, 2022 15:15 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsBefore the pandemic, one-in-five children in America faced a challenge with their mental, emotional, or behavioral health. Since the pandemic, symptoms of depression and anxiety among young people have doubled, worldwide. We all have a role in protecting the mental health of kids. And ...
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