First Opinion Podcast

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Episodes: 140

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A weekly podcast about the people, issues and ideas that are shaping health care.

Episode Date
From Say More: “The C-Word: Stories of Cancer”
May 29, 2025
130: The biggest questions facing regenerative medicine
May 28, 2025
129: How photography helped heal a couple in the aftermath of cancer
May 21, 2025
From KFF Health News: 'What the Health?'
May 16, 2025
128: A libertarian vision for U.S. health care
May 14, 2025
127: The doctor is in. So is their AI
May 07, 2025
126: The end of the medical school cadaver lab?
Apr 30, 2025
125: The ‘yes, and’ approach to dementia care
Apr 23, 2025
124: Why cats are so vulnerable to H5N1 bird flu
Apr 16, 2025
123: The invisibility of good public health work
Apr 09, 2025
From Tradeoffs: Medicare and Medicaid Under Dr. Oz
Apr 07, 2025
122: A former HHS secretary's fears for America's future
Apr 02, 2025
121: The neurosurgeon on call for 'Severance'
Mar 26, 2025
120: The kids’ doctors aren’t all right
Mar 19, 2025
119: Carl Zimmer on Covid, singing, and going ‘Air-Borne’
Mar 12, 2025
118: Dr. Glaucomflecken uses humor to spotlight the darkness in medicine
Dec 18, 2024
From the archives: The power, and limits, of the placebo effect
Dec 11, 2024
117: ADHD is this scientist’s ‘superpower’
Dec 04, 2024
116: How chaplains help to heal 'spiritual injury'
Nov 27, 2024
115: Paying a visit to ‘Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory’
Nov 20, 2024
114: Getting creative with health care in a new Trump administration
Nov 13, 2024
113: How your genetics could determine your politics
Nov 06, 2024
112: Abortion is just another part of medicine
Oct 30, 2024
111: No one wants to talk about Medicare policy
Oct 23, 2024
110: Mark Cuban has no doubt he can disrupt health care
Oct 16, 2024
109: Why a science magazine went political
Oct 09, 2024
108: How the 2024 election gets mental health right — and wrong
Oct 02, 2024
107: Empathy should be the first response to people with vaccine injury, fears
Jul 17, 2024
106: Anthony Fauci on presidents, bird flu, and turning down a multimillion-dollar job
Jul 10, 2024
105: Why is eugenics still alive and well in scientific publishing?
Jul 03, 2024
104: Rep. Diana DeGette on why reproductive freedom must be protected
Jun 26, 2024
103: Long Covid can be scarier than a gun to the head
Jun 19, 2024
102: Paying off people's medical debt won't fix our broken health care system
Jun 12, 2024
101: Among pregnant people, active treatment for addiction shouldn’t trigger a call to child protective services
Jun 05, 2024
100: What happens when kids become caregivers?
May 29, 2024
99: A conversation with researcher Kevin Esvelt on the urgency of improving biosecurity measures
May 22, 2024
98: Free medical tuition alone isn't enough to close gaps in primary care
May 15, 2024
97: Why rehabilitation engineers need to listen to patients and their families
May 08, 2024
96: How a new death penalty method undermines physician authority
May 01, 2024
95: Racism infects neuroscience’s past and present. What about its future?
Dec 20, 2023
94: When do tests hurt more than they help?
Dec 13, 2023
93: Rep. Raul Ruiz on going from the emergency room to Congress
Dec 06, 2023
92: What we take for granted after 30 years of Prozac
Nov 29, 2023
91: Living in cancer limbo
Nov 22, 2023
90: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students
Nov 15, 2023
89: Putting an end to a racist "diagnosis"
Nov 08, 2023
88: Sniffing out the power, and limits, of the placebo effect
Nov 01, 2023
87: Why don’t the rules of war protect health care workers and facilities in Gaza?
Oct 25, 2023
85: How the Wegovy shortage is hurting one patient's health
Oct 11, 2023
Introducing: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America
Oct 08, 2023
84: How two abortion providers grapple with their post-Roe reality
Oct 04, 2023
Introducing: Say More, from Globe Opinion
Aug 02, 2023
83: Why physicians should let patients call them by their first names
Jul 26, 2023
82: How dance helped one nurse heal from trauma, and help others
Jul 19, 2023
81: One Duchenne patient's bittersweet hope for new treatment
Jul 12, 2023
80: Is the medical system ready for Alzheimer's drugs that work?
Jul 05, 2023
79: Cancer drug shortages should be causing more outrage
Jun 28, 2023
78: How to save PrEP access — and even expand it
Jun 21, 2023
77: Physicians have an obligation to get into "good trouble"
Jun 14, 2023
76: Why forced treatment can't fix substance use disorder
Jun 07, 2023
75: Ezekiel J. Emanuel explains why cancer patients shouldn’t pay out-of-pocket costs
May 30, 2023
74: How 'screen and refer' systems fail to help patients
May 24, 2023
73: Do chatbots have more time to be empathetic than physicians?
May 17, 2023
72: The coercion built into medical privacy consent forms
May 10, 2023
71: Two medical residents debate their hospital's unionization drive
May 03, 2023
70: Big changes for First Opinion
Mar 15, 2023
69: The real experts are people living with mental illness
Nov 23, 2022
68: LIVE from Boston, Jay Baruch returns
Nov 16, 2022
67: Covid is not a 'racial equity success story'
Nov 09, 2022
66: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here's hoping
Nov 02, 2022
65: Home health care is facing devastating 'clawbacks'
Oct 26, 2022
64: What makes food 'healthy' and why nutrition isn't a priority in the U.S. economy
Oct 19, 2022
63: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be worse.
Oct 12, 2022
62: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what's "primarily medical in nature"
Oct 05, 2022
61: How the Dobbs decision's could affect clinical trials
Sep 28, 2022
60: Polio is back in the U.S. Two physicians offer ways to fight its spread
Sep 20, 2022
59: A pediatric doctor on the life-or-death decisions some prospective parents must make
Sep 14, 2022
58: A doctor with ALS laments a slow pace for drug approval
Sep 07, 2022
57: Covid-19 is leaving millions of orphaned children behind
Jun 01, 2022
56: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians
May 25, 2022
Episode 55: The faces of Covid after one million deaths
May 18, 2022
Episode 54: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat
May 11, 2022
Episode 53: How should doctors treat pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?
May 04, 2022
52: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone
Apr 27, 2022
Episode 51: Covid turned the nation's eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?
Apr 20, 2022
Episode 50: Where are all the psychiatrists?
Apr 13, 2022
Episode 49: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?
Apr 06, 2022
Episode 48: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — thousands of miles apart
Mar 30, 2022
Episode 47: Pharma markets drugs to young adults, so why aren't they included in trials?
Mar 23, 2022
Episode 46: The 'underground market' for insulin and diabetes supplies
Mar 16, 2022
Episode 45: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant
Feb 23, 2022
Episode 44: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing
Jan 26, 2022
Looking back on the first year of 'First Opinion Podcast'
Dec 22, 2021
Episode 43: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can't advocate for themselves
Dec 15, 2021
Episode 42: A public health expert passes on football's full body collisions for youth
Dec 08, 2021
Episode 41: Who owns your health data — and why you should care
Dec 01, 2021
Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War
Nov 24, 2021
Episode 40: A resident physician on the fire that burned him out
Nov 17, 2021
Episode 39: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk
Nov 10, 2021
Episode 38: An antibiotic expert on her body's stinging betrayal
Nov 03, 2021
Episode 37: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of 'curating' natural deaths and executions
Oct 27, 2021
Episode 36: A Filipinx physician on the health disparities disguised by data
Oct 20, 2021
Episode 35: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible
Oct 13, 2021
Episode 34: An Alzheimer's scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates
Oct 06, 2021
Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine
Sep 29, 2021
Episode 33: A reporter and a reader on rethinking how we gain weight
Sep 22, 2021
Episode 32: An organizer and a physician on how climate change puts pregnant people at risk
Sep 15, 2021
Episode 31: A scientist-parent on back-to-school season with Delta
Sep 08, 2021
Episode 30: An ICU physician on the dark side of mechanical ventilators
Sep 01, 2021
Episode 29: A father on the legacy of his son's ultra-rare disease
Aug 25, 2021
Episode 28: An ENT physician & patient on the high cost of hearing loss
Aug 18, 2021
Episode 27: Two physicians on breakthrough Covid-19 cases
Aug 11, 2021
Episode 26: A cancer survivor on how to keep surviving
Aug 04, 2021
Episode 25: A journalist on what the Vietnam war taught us about addiction
Jul 28, 2021
Episode 24: Ezekiel Emanuel on vaccine mandates
Jul 21, 2021
Episode 23: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.
Jul 14, 2021
Episode 22: A biostatistician on the "gold mine" in our sewers
Jul 07, 2021
Episode 21: A sister on watching the mental health care system fail her brother
Jun 30, 2021
Episode 20: Priscilla Chan on pediatric biology and research: "Children are not tiny adults"
Jun 23, 2021
Episode 19, Part 1: An original believer on the aducanumab decision
Jun 16, 2021
Episode 19, Part 2: A reluctant prescriber on the aducanumab decision
Jun 16, 2021
Episode 18: An advocate & a psychiatrist on physician suicide
Jun 09, 2021
Episode 17: A nurse & a physician on harnessing nurses' potential
Jun 02, 2021
Episode 16: Danielle Ofri on her postmortem folder
May 26, 2021
Episode 15: Chelsea Clinton on public health crises like fracking, oxygen shortages
May 19, 2021
Episode 14: A veteran health reporter on the brutality of India's Covid-19 crisis
May 12, 2021
Episode 13: A physician and a philosopher on long Covid’s mind-body mystery
May 05, 2021
Episode 12: Jonathan Jones on how epidemics won the Civil War
Apr 28, 2021
Episode 11: Lubab al-Quraishi on how the US mistreats foreign physicians
Apr 21, 2021
Episode 10: Jennifer Brody and Ayana Jordan on "excited delirium"
Apr 14, 2021
Episode 9: David Hyun and Rachel Zetts on antimicrobial resistant superbugs
Apr 07, 2021
Episode 8: Jason Karlawish and an Alzheimer's caregiver on dementia's ripple effect
Mar 31, 2021
Episode 7: Kara Zivin on seeing her own struggle reflected in Meghan Markle's testimony
Mar 24, 2021
Episode 6: Uché Blackstock on diversity in medicine and a ‘life-altering’ decision
Mar 17, 2021
Episode 5: Walter Isaacson on CRISPR rivals and a Covid truce
Mar 10, 2021
Episode 4: Haider Warraich on how hospitals treat the community
Mar 03, 2021
Episode 3: Catherine Mezzacappa and Ruth Faden on vaccinating while pregnant
Feb 24, 2021
Episode 2: Lauren Powell on the intersection of Covid-19 and racism
Feb 17, 2021
Episode 1: Jay Baruch on writing and medicine
Feb 17, 2021
Coming Soon: First Opinion Podcast
Jan 26, 2021