MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss whether people actually use their Medicare Advantage benefits , the recent USMLE cheating scandal and the class action lawsuit that came out of it , and how the ketogenic diet might have some surprising uses for treating mental health conditions.Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson...
Mar 01, 2024•13 min
A novel class of antithrombotic medication, the factor XIa inhibitors, has had a rocky start but is powering through phase III trials, which are now underway. MedPage Today sat down to discuss the novel agents with Graeme Hankey, MBBS, MD, of the University of Western Australia School of Medicine & Pharmacology and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, both in Perth, Australia. He’s also co-chair of the Secondary Stroke Prevention Executive Committee and the Program Executive Council for the Librex...
Feb 27, 2024•18 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week on the pod we discuss a recent interview with the head of the agency that advisoes Congress on Medicare , some instances of double billing patients , and the story of one physician-scientist changing the narrative surrounding NHPI health disparitiesRachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson, Cheryl Clark , and Jennifer ...
Feb 02, 2024•13 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss some updates on residency application prices and other changes to the process ,” a doctor who got disciplined for spewing COVID misinformation , and a new study that found doctors especially should actually relax on their vacationsRachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , Kristina Fio...
Jan 19, 2024•11 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how stem cell companies are marketing to long COVID patients ,” a rare case of abdominal ectopic pregnancy where the patient and baby both survived, and how Americans are using emerging cannabinoidsRachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , Kristina Fiore , and Michael DePeau Wilson ....
Dec 22, 2023•10 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a rare syndrome following COVID vaccination that some are calling “long vax,” why people are talking about disgraced surgeon Paolo Macchiarini a decade after his experiments on patients first came to light, and a doctor who claims her voice was cloned by AI for an advertisement . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson...
Dec 08, 2023•10 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss a legal battle in Colorado over whether or not the state can ban so-called medication abortion reversal, a new CMS rule that includes Medicare pay cuts , and one doctor who got tinnitus shortly after a COVID vaccineRachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Rachael Robertson , Joyce Frieden , and Jennifer...
Nov 10, 2023•13 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss changes in COVID peak viral load , how long kids are contagious , and the latest COVID variant . Plus, several issues with Medicare Advantage advertising and an update on the loaded term 'excited delirium' -- and why medical professionals aren’t using it anymore. Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineer...
Oct 27, 2023•13 min
It's the podcast about the practice of medicine, the art of medicine, the experience of medicine -- not the science of it. Not the nitty-gritty drugs, not the procedures, the parts of science that were on pathophys [pathophysiology] exams. But it does mean we need to think beyond just the bedside sometimes. What are the things that trigger us? What are the things that take away from what we can do and what we want to do at the bedside? What are ways that we can mitigate it, that we can improve i...
Oct 20, 2023•47 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss n the details you may not have known to look foropens in a new tab or window on your at-home COVID tests , a scam impacting medical meetings , and the latest pop psychology craze sweeping TikTok . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Michael DePeau-Wilson , Sophie Putk...
Oct 13, 2023•20 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss how a Medicare switch led to a massive surprise medical bill , the GLP-1 agonist plateau no one's talking about , and a new position statement on Grateful Patient Fundraising . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Cheryl Clark , Sophie Putka , and Michael DePeau-Wilson...
Sep 29, 2023•15 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss the CDC Director's plan to build trust , the first artificial intelligence job at a hospital , and mental health coverage for med students . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Michael DePeau-Wilson and Sophie Putka ....
Sep 15, 2023•13 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss abortion care , doctors in movies , and fall boosters . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson . Sound engineering by Greg Laub . Reporting by Sophie Putka , Rachael Robertson , and Kristina Fiore ....
Sep 01, 2023•11 min
MedPod Today: the podcast series where MedPage Today reporters share deeper insight into the week's biggest healthcare stories. This week, MedPage Today reporters discuss recent cases of doctors spreading fake news. Featured Stories: Story one , story two , story three , and story four . Episode produced and hosted by Rachael Robertson Sound engineering by Greg Laub Reporting by Kristina Fiore , Michael DePeau-Wilson , Rachael Robertson , and Jennifer Henderson...
Aug 23, 2023•10 min
This is a podcast about the other parts of medicine. Not the drugs, or the latest clinical trial, or the how-to-schedule-your-clinic sort of best-practice discussions, but it’s the place that we talk about medicine and what keeps us coming back for it. It’s the ‘je ne sais quoi’ that makes it special, that lets us forgive it for all its faults and that lets us continue to love it for what it is. Every episode, we cover three stories around a central theme in medicine and storytelling. Our theme ...
Jul 21, 2023•35 min
Anamnesis is where we celebrate the parts of medicine that don’t always hit the limelight. It’s not about the newest drugs or the latest how-to on the cool procedure — this is where we talk about the medicine behind medicine — what keeps us going in this field. And what keeps us going in medicine. Here on this episode, we have three doctors sharing their mysteries — follow along as you watch them hunt and put together clues to finally crack the mystery. Chapter 1: Prepare for the Worst, Hope for...
Apr 07, 2023•56 min
This Anamnesis episode follows Michelle Jobes, PhD, CIP, a clinical research specialist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Maryland, as she recounts the experiences of five patients she’s worked alongside to help overcome substance use. Bittersweet Holidays (8:57) When Perseverance Pays Off (10:40) Inspiring Others Through Art (12:47) The ‘Mayor’ (14:32) An Unexpected Package (16:24) Never Forgotten (18:00) Episode produced by Brendan Murphy Sound engineering by Greg Laub Theme music by ...
Jan 17, 2023•25 min
Over the holidays, a nurse in recovery from opioid use disorder struggled to keep her addiction in check. She was caring for coronavirus patients on the front lines in an ICU outside Seattle. She asked her hospital for more support, and received little. She reached out to her family, but that just made things worse. On Sunday, January 3, 2021, Tiffany Swedeen relapsed. Tiffany's story highlights the fact that when it comes to substance use disorders, our healthcare system has one standard for pa...
Feb 11, 2022•41 min
Our theme this month is "Scar Tissue." And I don’t mean the surgical scar tissue, the ones from the fall we took ice skating when we were 6, or the ones we give patients when we take out their appendixes or sew up their lacerations — this is about the emotional vulnerability that we all have in clinical practice — and that accepting what we feel is the first step in healing. Now, this is a hard one for us as clinicians. We all fancy ourselves healers — but don’t always like to acknowledge that i...
Dec 10, 2021•42 min
What happens when you become the patient? That's what we're here to explore today -- with this episode's theme: Heal Thyself. Think about it. We diagnose and often intervene with medicines, surgeries, treatments. These interventions generally temporize and support the body, so that the body can heal itself. The concept of "healing" thyself, then, really does often have to accept that modern medicine can't do the healing. Sometimes we have to do it ourselves. And sometimes that's more mind than m...
Oct 29, 2021•38 min
Resilience is a core necessity in medicine. Resilience is toughness. Resilience is tenacity. Resilience is recovering and coming back for more. You need resilience to survive the long education and training for nearly every role in medicine. And as a patient, you need resilience to just make it through not only your acute care but the often weeks, months, or years of healing that happen afterward. Day in and day out, we call on our own resilience to get through difficult situations, tragic exper...
Sep 24, 2021•45 min
This has been a bit of a tough summer for everyone in healthcare. Our worlds have been a bit topsy-turvy, to say the least. That makes this all the more important of a time to remember to celebrate wins, of all sizes. Times are tough, remember every day of our lives is still riddled with victories. Some are small — a patient who listened to your advice, a colleague who thought you were right, even the warm blanket you brought to a patient that cheered up their day a little bit. Some are big — a ...
Aug 23, 2021•41 min
There are few things more core to the pillars of medicine than the concept of "empathy." Now empathy is something we hear about from day one in medical school, nursing school, or PA school. Hey, it's even something we hear in pre-med! It's probably something we even wrote about in our admissions essays. And that's because empathy is a critical part of care. You cannot care for a patient if you cannot relate, commiserate, and feel with them. In this episode, three storytellers have their own stor...
Jul 09, 2021•55 min
This Anamnesis episode is called “Eureka.” In medicine, a "eureka moment" usually comes for us through special patients. As much as we teach patients, they teach us so much more. Chapter 1. The Death of One Little Girl Helped Millions (4:28): A case more than 35 years ago has spurred discoveries ever since. Story by Kevin Tracey, MD. Chapter 2. Screaming Patient, No Restraints (16:00): A story about empathy in emergency psychiatry. Story by Scott Zeller, MD. Chapter 3. Diagnosing the Mind of a S...
May 07, 2021•35 min
This episode on "Abandoned" is about what happens when you are out there all alone -- whether it's because you're physically sequestered, or feeling like it's you versus the establishment, or you versus the world. Those are trying times, but learning ones for everyone involved. Chapter 1. People Died. The Establishment Played Games (3:10): Here's what it took, and how disgracefully long it took, for a simple COVID research project. Story by Martin Makary, MD, MPH, Editor-in-Chief, MedPage Today,...
Mar 08, 2021•40 min
This Anamnesis episode is called "At a Loss." And that can mean a lot of things -- at a loss for words, at a loss for any certainty, and for us in healthcare, it often means a loss of a patient. Chapter 1. Growing Close Then Saying Goodbye (3:00): How helping a sick colleague became a friendship. Story by Debashish Bose, MD, PhD. Chapter 2. A Broken System Killed My Young Patient (12:15): We've made improvements, but would anyone say it can't still happen? Story by Gregg Miller, MD. Chapter 3. W...
Jan 18, 2021•44 min
“Taboo” is a really complex concept in medicine. As healthcare workers treating patients, we are, in a way, stewards of secrets — secrets for patients, for our peers, and for our specialties. Chapter One, I Was Pregnant and Swallowed a Handfuls of Pills : (3:23): She wanted to end her life, now she wants to end the stigma surrounding depression. Story by Kara Zivin, PhD, MS, MA. Chapter Two, You’re Never Prepared for the Screams : (13:50): Telling people a loved one died is never easy. Story by ...
Nov 13, 2020•32 min
Research presented at the virtual IDWeek conference touched on how COVID-19 has affected a wide swath of issues in infectious diseases, from HIV infections to antibiotic stewardship. Even broader public health issues, such as treating opioid use disorder, were not immune to the pandemic's effects. In this "in-between-isode" of MedPage Today's podcast series, Anamnesis, one of our reporters discusses some of the research spotlighted at the meeting. Episode produced by Molly Walker Hosted and soun...
Oct 26, 2020•11 min
Our infectious disease reporter Molly Walker interviews Anthony Fauci, MD, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director. They discuss a promising line of attack on COVID-19 that has flown under media attention compared with vaccines, convalescent plasma, or hydroxychloroquine. Episode produced by MedPage Staff Hosted and sound engineering by Greg Laub...
Aug 31, 2020•7 min
You're joining us on Anamnesis, a podcast about medicine ... but the things about medicine that aren't drugs and protocols and studies, the things about medicine that are hard to articulate, that make us come back for more, that keep us engaged in this crazy, mixed-up world we get to participate in, called "caring." Caring for patients, caring for the health of our nation, and caring about our fellow man/woman in healthcare. Care has been more important than ever with everything going on. On Ana...
Aug 07, 2020•41 min
