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In this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” reporter and editor Kalpana Jain details how India got to today’s crisis with Covid-19. Although some blame hypernationalism, she calls on her …
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In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with critical care physician Adam Gaffney and philosopher Diane O’Leary about how to categorize the condition that’s come to …
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In this episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” medical historian Jonathan S. Jones explains the deadly and disfiguring diseases of the American Civil War and the important public health lessons …
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In this episode of the First Opinion Podcast, I speak with Lubab al-Quraishi, a Baghdad-trained physician, about her difficulty getting licensed to work as a physician in the United States. …
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In the tenth episode of “The First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with two physicians who specialize in addiction medicine about “excited delirium,” a topic that has come up several times …
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This week’s “First Opinion Podcast” takes a look at antimicrobial resistance, a topic that should be worrying everyone, but isn’t. I talk with David Hyun and Rachel Zetts, both with …
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In this week’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I speak with Alzheimer’s expert Jason Karlawish, director of Penn’s Memory Center, about his recent First Opinion, “The long, exhausting reach of dementia care.” …
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In his recent First Opinion, “The long, exhausting reach of dementia care,” Jason Karlawish, a geriatric physician and co-director of the Penn Memory Center, wrote about how the coronavirus pandemic …
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In this week’s episode of STAT’s “First Opinion Podcast,” I talk with Kara Zivin, a University of Michigan research scientist and professor of psychiatry and of obstetrics and gynecology. She …
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