First Opinion Podcast

130 Episodes

1. 104: Rep. Diana DeGette on why reproductive freedom must be protected

   Published: 6/26/2024
2. 103: Long Covid can be scarier than a gun to the head

   Published: 6/19/2024
3. 102: Paying off people's medical debt won't fix our broken health care system

   Published: 6/12/2024
4. 101: Among pregnant people, active treatment for addiction shouldn’t trigger a call to child protective services

   Published: 6/5/2024
5. 100: What happens when kids become caregivers?

   Published: 5/29/2024
6. 99: A conversation with researcher Kevin Esvelt on the urgency of improving biosecurity measures

   Published: 5/22/2024
7. 98: Free medical tuition alone isn't enough to close gaps in primary care

   Published: 5/15/2024
8. 97: Why rehabilitation engineers need to listen to patients and their families

   Published: 5/8/2024
9. 96: How a new death penalty method undermines physician authority

   Published: 5/1/2024
10. 95: Racism infects neuroscience’s past and present. What about its future?

    Published: 12/20/2023
11. 94: When do tests hurt more than they help?

    Published: 12/13/2023
12. 93: Rep. Raul Ruiz on going from the emergency room to Congress

    Published: 12/6/2023
13. 92: What we take for granted after 30 years of Prozac

    Published: 11/29/2023
14. 91: Living in cancer limbo

    Published: 11/22/2023
15. 90: The true costs of mediocre insurance plans for medical students

    Published: 11/15/2023
16. 89: Putting an end to a racist "diagnosis"

    Published: 11/8/2023
17. 88: Sniffing out the power, and limits, of the placebo effect

    Published: 11/1/2023
18. 87: Why don’t the rules of war protect health care workers and facilities in Gaza?

    Published: 10/25/2023
19. 85: How the Wegovy shortage is hurting one patient's health

    Published: 10/11/2023
20. Introducing: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America

    Published: 10/8/2023