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70. Why Are There Still So Few Female Surgeons?
Jan 27, 2023Success and failure are hard to measure in medicine. Bapu looks at how surgeons are judged after a bad outcome — and whether men and women are treated the same. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz comp...
69. Home Sweet … Hospital?
Jan 20, 2023We take it for granted that, when people are acutely ill, they should be in the hospital. Is there a better way? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about o...
68. The E.R. Doctor’s Dilemma
Jan 13, 2023Figuring out which patients to hospitalize and which to safely send home can be tricky. Is there a way to make this decision easier for doctors — and get better outcomes, too? Hosted by Simplecast, ...
What Can We Do About the Hardest Patients? (Ep. 51 Replay)
Jan 06, 2023A small number of patients with multiple chronic conditions use a lot of resources. Dr. Jeffrey Brenner found a way to identify and treat them. Could it reduce health-care spending too? Hosted by Si...
67. Why Did This 60-Year-Old Man Collapse at the Supermarket?
Dec 30, 2022Bapu tries to stump master clinician Dr. Gurpreet Dhaliwal with a medical mystery. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of pers...
66. Does Health Insurance Make You Healthier?
Dec 23, 2022It’s a surprisingly hard question to answer. Bapu talks with a health economist about a natural experiment that led to some unexpected findings. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.ad...
65. How Do Pandemics Change Health Care?
Dec 16, 2022At the start of the 20th century, there weren’t many hospitals in the U.S. That changed in 1918, thanks to the Great Influenza pandemic. Its effects on health care are still being felt today. Which ma...
64. Is Facebook Bad for Your Mental Health?
Dec 09, 2022Half the world's population uses social media — and a new study suggests that it causes anxiety and depression. Can anything be done, or is it too late? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See...
63. What Medicine Gets Wrong About Race
Dec 02, 2022Some diagnostic tests give distorted results for Black patients. How are doctors trying to change that? Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collec...
Why Don’t We Have a Cure for Alzheimer’s? (Ep. 49 Update)
Nov 25, 2022Promising drugs keep failing in trials. Allegations of fraud have cast a shadow over the field. An expert explains why Alzheimer’s treatments have been so hard to find — and why one clue may lie in th...