Flip the Script

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Acá y Allá: Protest Psychiatry and Physician Activism Aug 30, 2018

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Max discusses with Dr. Marco Ramos, a psychiatry resident and historian of medicine at Yale, about the activist role psychiatrists played in Argentina during the authoritarian regime through their therapeutic relationships with patients who faced state violence, some outcome of this movement, and lessons to be learned for today's medical trainees interested in advocacy.

More Harm Reduction, Please. Aug 16, 2018

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Max meets up with Dr. Benjamin Oldfield, a primary care physician at Yale. They talk about harm reduction: the concept, current efforts, barriers and patient engagement strategies, as we face the current drug epidemic, and work towards improving our health systems' effectiveness.

Opioids in Black and White Aug 06, 2018

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Max talks with Dr. Helena Hansen, a psychiatrist and anthropologist at NYU, about opioids and other addictive substances: drug marketing, federal and state policies, overdose epidemics, public reaction and the racialization of it all, having led to the creation of a 2-tiered system when it comes to addiction interventions, primarily on the basis of race. They take a deeper dive into elements of harm reduction, and the barriers some patients in her clinical practice face due to race and class.

Let's Get Active Jul 27, 2018

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Max meets up with Dr. Akshay Pendyal, a cardiologist & fellow in the national clinician scholars program at Yale, and they discuss his recent piece in KevinMD, calling physicians to action about using their power to address structural racism. They take a closer look at a particular issue impacted by structural racism: housing insecurity, and this creates for patients with heart failure when seeking relief.

To Heal and To Harm Jul 12, 2018

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Max's guest is Dr. Carolyn Roberts, an assistant professor of history of science and medicine at Yale University. Max and Carolyn discuss the role physicians had in the British transatlantic slave trade, from the coast of Africa to the Americas, as well as the burgeoning of the pharmaceutical industry then; and what lessons we can learn from this history in order to continue improving the nature of medicine and its role in the lives of historically marginalized populations.

Flip The Script: Teaser Jun 22, 2018

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Want to hear more about the gaps in health outcomes between different groups in our society? Ever wonder why your zip-code is such a strong predictor of health? Flip The Script’s goal to shine a light on issues related to health disparities nationally and globally, and discussing potential solutions with our guest-experts. We’ll interview healthcare, public health, health humanities/science professionals who dedicate their careers to contributing to achieving health equity.

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