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How one hospital is scrambling to deal with a shortage of a critical drug, and what changes are needed to fix chronic problems with the U.S. medical supply chain.
Guests:
Kierstin Kennedy, Chief Medical Officer, University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital
Erin Fox, Senior Pharmacy Director, University of Utah Health
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We explore “cascades of care” — how a clinician's desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.
Guests:
Meredith Niess, MD, MPH, Clinical Academic Resource Director, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Novant Health
Ishani Ganguli, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Cheryl Damberg, PhD, MPH, Principal Senior Economist and Director, RAND Center of Excellence on Health System Performance
Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Chief Innovation Officer, SCAN Health Plan
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In Part 2 of our special series on 988, we explore the scramble to staff the country’s new mental health crisis line and the workforce lessons 988 can learn from 911.
Learn more about how 988 came to be, what’s at stake and what it will take to succeed in the first episode in our series.
Guests:
Rebecca Neusteter, PhD, Executive Director, Health Lab, University of Chicago
Rita Salazar, 911 call-taker, Valley Communications Center
Michelle Lilly, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northern Illinois University
Jennifer Battle, MSW, Director of Access, Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD Services
Lata Menon, MSW, CEO, First Choice Services
Courtney Colwell, 988 Program Manager, Volunteers of America Western Washington
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregnant people may have.
Guests:
Stacey Roussel, Deputy Director, Louisiana Budget Project
Frankie Robertson, Founder & President, The Amandla Group
Usha Ranji, Associate Director for Women’s Health Policy at Kaiser Family Foundation
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The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.
Guests:
Liana Wolk, teacher
Owen Marshall, musician
Katie Keith, JD, MPH; Director, Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O’Neill Institute at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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Medical education is in the midst of a revolution. Students and educators want their education ingrained in antiracism and hope that by acknowledging and teaching about bias and systemic discrimination in the medical field, the next generation of doctors will be better equipped to dismantle racism within health care. STAT's “Color Code” takes a look at the groundswell of antiracism work in medicine and medical education, and explores the backlash these endeavors have received, which span from institutional repercussions to protests from hate groups
Guests:
Jerrel Catlett: An MD/PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Rebecca Zhou: A peer in medical school at Mt. Sinai.
Jennifer Dias: An MD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Michelle Morse: Chief Medical Officer of the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Aysha Khoury: Assistant Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.
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We talk with a Michigan OB-GYN determined to make sure her hospital is ready if abortion becomes illegal in her state.
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Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old idea to care for homeless people who are too healthy to be in the hospital, but too sick to be on the streets?
Guests:
Henry Jones, former medical respite patient
Janelle Goetcheus, MD, Founder and Medical Director, Christ House
Julia Dobbins, MSW, Director of Medical Respite, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
Jack Kline, LICSW, LCSW-C, Former Executive Program Director, Hope Has A Home
Karyn Wills, MD, Chief Medical Officer, CareFirst Blue Cross Community Health Plan, DC
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We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.
Guest:
Bram Sable-Smith, Midwest Correspondent, Kaiser Health News
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the nation to reexamine how to balance the needs of desperate patients, incomplete evidence and larger economic realities.
Guests:
Phil Gutis, Alzheimer’s patient and advocate
Holly Fernandez Lynch, JD, MBe, John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Pennsylvania
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