First Opinion Podcast

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First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett, Theresa Gaffney and Alissa Ambrose

Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A public health expert passes on football’s full body collisions for youth

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal by these drugs

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An Alzheimer’s scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking why people gain weight

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A scientist-parent on heading back to school with Delta

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An ICU physician on the moral dilemmas mechanical ventilators can raise

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A father describes the legacy of his son’s ultra-rare disease

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An ENT physician & an advocate on the high monetary and social costs of hearing loss

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Two physicians, one of whom had a ‘breakthrough infection,’ on Covid-19 among the vaccinated

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A longtime glioblastoma survivor on how to keep surviving

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

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Listen: How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?

Listen: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

Listen: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant

Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’

Listen: A public health expert passes on football’s full body collisions for youth

Listen: Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War

Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal by these drugs

Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible

Listen: An Alzheimer’s scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates

Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine

Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking why people gain weight

Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities

Listen: A scientist-parent on heading back to school with Delta

Listen: An ICU physician on the moral dilemmas mechanical ventilators can raise

Listen: A father describes the legacy of his son’s ultra-rare disease

Listen: An ENT physician & an advocate on the high monetary and social costs of hearing loss

Listen: Two physicians, one of whom had a ‘breakthrough infection,’ on Covid-19 among the vaccinated

Listen: A longtime glioblastoma survivor on how to keep surviving

Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction

Listen: Ezekiel Emanuel on vaccine mandates: ‘Covid might not be done with you’

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