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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 …
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