What can medicine tell us about our world, our culture, and our society? Physician and host Sam Freeman interviews practitioners, researchers and advocates about their work in healthcare, their lives and their insights. Sam takes listeners beyond the standard narratives as he and his guests explore the ideas, culture and politics of health and medicine.
Practicing
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What can medicine tell us about our world, our culture, and our society? Physician and host Sam Freeman interviews practitioners, researchers and advocates about their work in healthcare, their lives and their insights. Sam takes listeners beyond the standard narratives as he and his guests explore the ideas, culture and politics of health and medicine.
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Publishing Since
10/4/2021
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Recent Episodes
August 24, 2023
Autumn Fiester: Seeing the Difficult Patient
Of all the problems we face in clinical medicine, few are more vexing than patient interactions that don’t go well. Dealing with a “difficult patient,” as they’re commonly referred to, can ruin your day and set off a spiraling cascade of thoughts and emotions. Those patient encounters frustrate us and drain us as clinicians. They can leave us feeling at once helpless and self-righteous, empathetic and disdainful. Often, they make us want to run away. Other times, they suck us in, to an uncomf...
July 14, 2023
Vanessa Bonneau and Sylvan Lanken: Loving Fera
A little over two years ago, two good friends of mine, whose daughter Fera was born just a few weeks before my daughter, came to me with concerns about their baby. Fera was about 9 months old and at a routine check-up her doctor had found that her weight gain had slowed. When her mother, Vanessa, reached out to me about this, I wasn’t too worried – so often in pediatrics health concerns turn out to be nothing, or small hiccups that get better on their own. Not to mention the fact that I...
May 24, 2023
Olivier Drouin: Uncovering Influences
The phrase “evidence-based medicine” is uttered so often in the medical world that it can lose its meaning. So what does it mean? We use the phrase to highlight the ways that medical knowledge and practice are based on scientific data, systematic studies that allow us to determine what really works, to distinguish cause and effect from random associations. And modern medicine has been built around that notion of scientific objectivity. But I also like to think of the many gaps in that...
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