Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie joins us to talk about how the department is evolving to address PTSD and mental health.
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Why We Need Rest
Alex Pang, a visiting scholar at Stanford, joins us to talk about the idea of “deliberate rest” – and about strategies to incorporate it into our busy schedules.
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The Purpose Of Silence
Harriet Shawcross joins us to talk about how traumatic experiences can interrupt our ability to communicate.
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Mass Shootings Often Start As Domestic Violence
Rachel Louise Snyder joins us to debunk myths about domestic violence, and to talk about what it will take to truly address the problem that the World Health Organization deems a global epidemic.
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Is PTSD Preventable?
Dr. Shaili Jain joins us to talk about how PTSD affects many aspects of sufferers’ lives – and about cutting-edge research that’s providing hope.
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A Doctor On The Difference Between Health And Healthcare
Dr. Sandro Galea talks about how we should rethink our understanding of what it means to be healthy – and how that shift will guide our approach to healthcare.
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She Knew She’d Get Cancer, So Here’s What She Did
Kim Horner talks about how she and other women make a drastic choice to fight a disease they don’t even have.
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Electronic Health Records: The $36 Billion Dollar Fiasco?
Fred Schulte joins us to talk about how healthcare record keeping has become less efficient. His story, “Death By 1,000 Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong,” written with Erika Fry, is a join investigation between Forbes and Kaiser Health News.
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Robot M.D.
Cardiologist Dr. Eric Topol joins us to talk about how A.I. could free human doctors up for the personal interactions that actually lead to healing. His new book is called “Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again.”
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Reproductive Care: The Third Rail Of Health Policy
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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The Price Of Uncontrolled Diabetes
Sophie Novack joins us to talk about how diabetes hits poor communities in Texas and elsewhere particularly hard, which she writes about for the Texas Observer.
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The Pros And Cons Of Being Super Smart
Columbia psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about if smarter people are also more content, the subject of his essay in Scientific American.
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