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Medicine May 7, 2019

Deep Medicine

How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

Eric Topol

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Medicine has lost its humanity. Doctors no longer have the time to make personal connections with their patients. In his new book Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare …
Medicine March 15, 2019

The Purple World

Healing the Harm in American Health Care

Joseph Jarvis

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Americans pay double what every other developed nation in the world pays for healthcare. Does that mean that we are the healthiest? No. In fact, we are the worst of …
Medicine March 5, 2019

A Future With Hope

An Inspiring Guide to Overcoming Diabetes

Carl S. Armato

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Carl Armato, the CEO of Novant Health, has lived with his diabetes diagnosis for over 50 years. In spite of his diabetes not being easy to live with, he has …
Medicine March 4, 2019

Health Care

Meet The American Dream

Janis Powers

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
American health care is the most expensive in the world, yet it produces some of the worst outcomes among developed nations. Many people offer unrealistic ideas or hot buzz words …
Medicine February 7, 2019

Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism

My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

Peter Hotez

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Dr. Peter Hotez is a pediatrician-scientist who develops vaccines for neglected tropical diseases affecting the world's poor. He is also the father of a daughter who was diagnosed with autism …
Medicine January 22, 2019

The Opioid Crisis Wake Up Call

Health Care is Stealing the American Dream. Here is How We Take It Back

Dave Chase

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
The opioid crisis in America is considered by many to be the worst national public health crisis in the last 100 years. In his new book, The Opioid Crisis Wake …
Medicine January 7, 2019

The Butchering Art

Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Joseph Lister changed the world of medicine. In her book The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Scientific American, 2017), Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris …
Medicine December 31, 2018

Navigating Life with Migraine and Other Headaches

William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Migraine headaches can be absolutely devastating. In the book Navigating Life with Migraine and Other Headaches (Oxford University Press, 2018), William B. Young and Stephen D. Silberstein set out to …
Medicine December 28, 2018

Do You Believe in Magic?

Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural

Paul A. Offit

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Is alternative medicine quackery? In the book Do You Believe in Magic? Vitamins, Supplements, and All Things Natural: A Look Behind the Curtain (Harper, 2014) (Harper Paperbacks, 2014),Paul A. Offit …
Medicine November 21, 2018

Pillow of Dreams

Nivedita Lakhera

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Pillow of Dreams (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017) is an intensely emotional and inspirational collection of poetry and art by Dr. Nivedita Lakhera. She experienced a stroke, divorce, and then a heartbreak …
Medicine September 21, 2018

The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide

Leadership and Management in Trying Times

Joshua Sharfstein

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein has learned a lot as from his years of experience as a public health leader. He has dealt with everything from a rabid raccoon, to protestors, to …
Medicine September 19, 2018

Health-Wealth

9 Steps To Financial Recovery

Josh Luke

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Healthcare is extremely expensive for both patients and their employers. The costs of healthcare continue to increase with no end in sight. Dr. Josh Luke is a former Hospital CEO …
Medicine August 21, 2018

You and Me

The Neuroscience of Identity

Susan Greenfield

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
What makes you who you are? What makes you distinct from me? What is identity? In the book You and Me: The Neuroscience of Identity (Notting Hill Editions, 2016), Baroness …
Medicine August 17, 2018

Bad Advice

Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren’t Your Best Source of Health Information

Paul Offit

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
You should never trust celebrities, politicians, or activists for health information. Why? Because they are not scientists! Scientists often cannot compete with celebrities when it comes to charm or evoking …
Medicine August 9, 2018

Deadly Companions

How Microbes Shaped our History

Dorothy H. Crawford

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
The history of mankind is interlinked with microbes. As humans evolved and became more advanced, microbes evolved right along with us. Through infection, disease, and pandemic they have helped shape …
Medicine July 18, 2018

Aroused

The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything

Randi Hutter Epstein

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy …
Medicine July 10, 2018

The Violinist’s Thumb

And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code

Sam Kean

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist’s Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written …
Medicine June 15, 2018

Bless This Mess

A Picture Story of Healthcare in America

Stephen Klasko

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Our neighbors on other planets look with puzzlement at the United States, located on the beautiful planet Earth. Despite amazing knowledge, discovery, and skill, healthcare delivery in this country is …
Medicine May 22, 2018

Quackery

A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied …
Medicine May 17, 2018

The Cleveland Clinic Way

Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations

Toby Cosgrove

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
American healthcare is in crisis. It doesn't have to be. Dr. Toby Cosgrove's The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World’s Leading Health Care Organizations (McGraw-Hill …
Medicine May 9, 2018

Pale Rider

The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World

Laura Spinney

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
The Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was one of the greatest human disasters of all time. It infected a third of the people on Earth--from the poorest immigrants of New York …
Medicine April 26, 2018

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons

The History of the Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery

Sam Kean

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Early studies of the functions of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike---strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, lobotomies, horrendous accidents-and see how the victim coped. In …
Medicine April 20, 2018

At Peace

Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life

Samuel Harrington

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
Most people say they would like to die quietly at home. But overly aggressive medical advice, coupled with an unrealistic sense of invincibility or overconfidence in our health-care system, results …
Medicine April 11, 2018

The Matter of the Heart

A History of the Heart in Eleven Operations

Thomas Morris

Hosted by Jeremy Corr
For thousands of years the human heart remained the deepest of mysteries; both home to the soul and an organ too complex to touch, let alone operate on. Then, in …