First Opinion Podcast
A podcast by STAT - Wednesdays
130 Episodes
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65: Home health care is facing devastating 'clawbacks'
Published: 10/26/2022 -
64: What makes food 'healthy' and why nutrition isn't a priority in the U.S. economy
Published: 10/19/2022 -
63: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be worse.
Published: 10/12/2022 -
62: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what's "primarily medical in nature"
Published: 10/5/2022 -
61: How the Dobbs decision's could affect clinical trials
Published: 9/28/2022 -
60: Polio is back in the U.S. Two physicians offer ways to fight its spread
Published: 9/20/2022 -
59: A pediatric doctor on the life-or-death decisions some prospective parents must make
Published: 9/14/2022 -
58: A doctor with ALS laments a slow pace for drug approval
Published: 9/7/2022 -
57: Covid-19 is leaving millions of orphaned children behind
Published: 6/1/2022 -
56: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians
Published: 5/25/2022 -
Episode 55: The faces of Covid after one million deaths
Published: 5/18/2022 -
Episode 54: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat
Published: 5/11/2022 -
Episode 53: How should doctors treat pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?
Published: 5/4/2022 -
52: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone
Published: 4/27/2022 -
Episode 51: Covid turned the nation's eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?
Published: 4/20/2022 -
Episode 50: Where are all the psychiatrists?
Published: 4/13/2022 -
Episode 49: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?
Published: 4/6/2022 -
Episode 48: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — thousands of miles apart
Published: 3/30/2022 -
Episode 47: Pharma markets drugs to young adults, so why aren't they included in trials?
Published: 3/23/2022 -
Episode 46: The 'underground market' for insulin and diabetes supplies
Published: 3/16/2022
A weekly podcast about the people, issues and ideas that are shaping health care.