FHC #33: Marty Makary on eliminating waste in medical education
Marty Makary, a nationally renowned surgeon and educator at Johns Hopkins, goes about life as if having ingested a truth serum for which there is no antidote. Hear him speak …
FHC #32: A patient with terminal cancer opens up about her doctors
Alison Hadden is a lifelong athlete, an adventurer and was, by age 38, a marketing executive at three different billion-dollar tech companies. But in 2018, Alison says “life burst through …
Episode 31: Dr. Jen Gunter vs. sexism, pseudoscience & the wellness-industrial complex
Dr. Jen Gunter is known by many titles. She’s been called Twitter’s resident gynecologist, the Internet’s OB-GYN, and medicine’s fiercest advocate for women’s health. In her writing for The New …
Episode 30: ‘Diagnosis’ doctor Lisa Sanders examines medical culture
When the producers of Fox first reached out to Dr. Lisa Sanders with the idea of turning her New York Times column into a TV show called House, she was …
Episode 29: Leana Wen discusses COVID-19 and the culture of medicine
American doctors have it rough these days. Not only are they fighting to keep Covid-19 patients alive as hospitalizations surge, but they are also struggling to navigate the ever-changing and …
Episode 28: Eric Topol sees the future of medicine as ‘man plus machine’
American doctors have gained a reputation for resisting the types of technologies that could make healthcare more convenient and cost-effective. But have physicians really earned their technophobic stigma? This episode …
Episode 27: Dr. Amanda Calhoun on white coats and Black Lives
Back in June, a young Black physician stood outside the Sterling Hall of Medicine at Yale University with a sign in her hands that read: “Stop Killing Black People.” Then …
Episode 26: ZDoggMD diagnoses the culture of medicine
In this episode, Fixing Healthcare hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome their first returning guest, Zubin Damania, a physician and entertainer known to his legions of followers as …
Episode 25: Why U.S. doctors provide low-value care
No expert has gained more insight into the organizational factors associated with physician and health-system performance than Stephen M. Shortell. He is a graduate school professor and dean emeritus of …
Episode 24: Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe talks COVID-19 testing, your genes and the future of medicine
Anne Wojcicki is a biologist, entrepreneur and the CEO of 23andMe, the leading consumer genetics and research company with more than 12 million customers worldwide. On this episode, Wojcicki spoke …