Vivian Ho is James A. Baker III Institute Chair in Health Economics and director of the Center for Health and Biosciences at Rice University, and she joins us to talk about the knock-on effects of the pandemic, from possible health-care bankruptcies to staffing issues, that hospitals are bracing for after the storm.
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Filmmaker Sasha Achilli joins us to tell the story of one ER doctor in Nothern Italy and her battle to save a daily swarm of incoming patients inside a besieged hospital.
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This hour, we’ll talk with paramedic Kevin Hazzard about what he learned about people from caring for them on the way to the hospital, which he writes about in “A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back.”
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This hour, we’ll talk about Parkland Hospital’s storied past with Dr. John Boyd, and anesthesiologist who trained at Parkland who has written a new history of the hospital.
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We’ll talk to Dr. Sandeep Jauhar about how the pharmaceutical industry, insurance companies and government policies are affecting patient care, which he writes about in Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician.
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The Director of Autism Research at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute tells us about cutting edge therapies currently in development, and gives practical advice for parents of autistic children.
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