Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery

About Lifespan: Stories of Illness, Accident, and Recovery

On Lifespan, you’ll hear stories about encounters with the health care system. Each show contains stories bound by a common theme – a person’s personal journey through a particular type of medical trauma. The stories are deeply personal. Some stories reflect a person’s response to treatment and other stories simply reflect on the aftermath of an illness. Even when multiple people are describing their experiences with the same disease, condition or treatment, each account is unique. If the subject of this podcast interests you, please subscribe to Lifespan wherever you access your podcasts. You can also listen to Lifespan at WOUB.org/listen.

Publisher

WOUB Public Media

Category

health & fitness · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Apr 2018

Latest episode

9 Apr 2025

Latest episodes

25 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Apr 2025

   “Long Covid”

   Janet Golden, professor emerita of history, Rutgers University, describes her experience with Long Covid and points out that infectious diseases often lead to chronic diseases and conditions. That’s yet another reason to make sure all your, and your children’s, vaccinations are up to date. Preventing infectious illness often prevents chronic illness.

2. 

   2 May 2024

   “Kidney Failure”

   Dylan lives in Tennessee. He’s a magazine editor. He has a wife. He has a young daughter. And he has Alport syndrome, a hereditary kidney disease. In this episode of Lifespan, Dylan describes his years on kidney dialysis, how a kidney transplant recently transformed his life, and the uniqueness of being part of an extended family with so many members affected by an inherited illness.

3. 

   3 Oct 2022

   “Alzheimer’s”

   Larry and Carol have been married for 66 years. About 17 years ago, Carol began to show signs of memory problems. She has since been diagnosed as having Alzheimer’s. In this episode of Lifespan, Larry, and his daughter, Madeline, who are both physicians, talk about Carol and the difficulties that Alzheimer’s presents to everyone touched by the illness.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

12,339,217

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.2 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

48

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

50

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Guest appearances

Books guests

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