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Over the last nine episodes, we’ve listened to dozens upon dozens of clinicians tell their stories about shame. For this last episode of Shame in M...
- Added: Nov 20, 2022
- Length: 34:26
At work, we often feel pressured to present a curated version of ourselves, which fits into a certain standard. But what are the side effects of hi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 32:26
1 in 10 physicians will get sued at some point in their career – but physicians rarely discuss this, much less prepare for it. How do we bring liti...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 40:56
For most clinicians, the idea of harming a patient is a worst nightmare. But in a high-stakes profession, practiced by humans in a dysfunctional sy...
- Added: Oct 18, 2022
- Length: 34:26
This week, The Laura Flanders Show premieres ‘Building Public Trust for Public Health’ on the challenges of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout across the...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jan 28, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
A life lost, a life saved. The main character of this episode isn’t a person. It’s a nasal spray. Naloxone (aka Narcan) saves lives from opioid ove...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 23:51
- Purchases: 1
Nine out of ten deaf babies are born to hearing parents, who know almost nothing about deafness or the science of language. But they have to learn ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jul 25, 2019
- Length: 49:59
- Purchases: 1
When caring for a young woman with a brain cancer diagnosis, medicine resident Colleen Farrell comes to grips with her own mortality.
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 33:36
In the hospital, pediatrician Dana Gal struggles with a young patient who asserts her autonomy in ways that are frustrating, and even dangerous.
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 34:33
My first experience with Baltimore City Jail, I think I was 17 years of age, and it just seems like it’s been repeatedly ever since. I’ve been in a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 18, 2019
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Sharon Akabas, PhD, Director of the MS Program at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, talks about her early interest in educa...
- Added: Nov 06, 2018
- Length: 34:02
A 12-year-old girl in blue jeans probably isn’t the first thing you picture when you hear the word paleontologist. But in 1979, young India Wood di...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 58:59
A traumatic event in life is like a scratch on a record. Every time the record player, or your mind, runs over the scratch, it skips. This skippi...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 07:20
Professor Steven Weinberg is a Nobel laureate in physics and a theoretical physicist who is an outspoken thinker on topics ranging from nuclear wea...
- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 01:20:04
Prerna Gupta, a vocalist and the Chief Product Officer of Smule, a startup that creates digital tools for singers like Songify and AutoRap, talks a...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 58:59
A Vet describes a euthanasia and we wonder how we should consider human euthanasia.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 08, 2011
- Length: 09:11
- Purchases: 1
The world’s first floating wetlands classroom comes to the aid of one of the country's most polluted waterways.
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Aug 22, 2007
- Length: 06:09
One woman's fight against cancer to save her life for her and her family.
Bought by KMXT, WVPE, Jefferson Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.
- Added: Jun 25, 2007
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Mar 16, 2005
- Length: 01:22