Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon and professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University, joins us to talk about the medical debt that consumes one in five Americans.
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Who’s Looking After Home Health Care Workers?
Reporter Alexia Fernández Campbell joins us to talk about the harsh realities of a job asked to provide comfort when supplying very little of its own.
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The Case For Single Payer Healthcare
Healthcare activist Timothy Faust joins us to discuss why, he says, it’s more dangerous to get sick in the U.S. than anywhere in the world.
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Why Female Vets Have It Harder
Director of Women’s Health Sciences Division National Center for PTSD and director of WoVen (the Women’s Veterans Network), Tara Galovski joins us to talk about the research paving the way for healthy re-entry for female veterans.
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Wild Stuff Happens When You Sleep
Neurologist Dr. Guy Leschziner joins us to talk about night terrors, sleepwalking and all the maladies that keep us from sleeping like a baby.
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Should We Enable Safe Drug Use?
Journalist Kate Knibbs joins us to talk about a movement to allow medically-supervised drug use aiming at keeping addicts alive.
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The Two Questions Every Doctor Should Ask
Dr. Madhukar Trivedi joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how primary care physicians can be an effective front-line resource in detecting mental illness.
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Hardship As A Launch Pad
Science fiction fantasy author Nnedi Okorafor joins guest host Courtney Collins to talk about her story about life after a paralyzing surgery.
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Mescaline’s Long, Strange Trip
Mike Jay joins guest host John McCaa to tell the stories of seekers who have experimented with mescaline in search of new states of consciousness.
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Colorado After 5 Years Of Legal Weed
Jack Healy joins us to talk about how Colorado has changed since legalizing marijuana five years ago.
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Can You Steal The Cure For Cancer?
Peter Waldman joins us to talk about how the FBI and NIH are quietly purging Chinese scientists at cancer research institutions, out of fear of China stealing intellectual property.
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The Hidden Grief of Miscarriage
Psychotherapist Julia Bueno joins us to talk about the trauma and stigma surrounding the loss of a pregnancy.
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