All Episodes

First, Organize: Physicians, Public Health, and the Power of Collective Action

Beyond “Checkbox” Ethics: What Really Matters in Global Research

Beyond Snapshots: Studying Medical Training Through Time

Artificial Intelligence & the Social Role of Medicine Redefined

Asking for Aid: ICE, Advocacy, and Bioethics

Vaccines now: Politicians, science, and a new public health reality

Why Accreditation Matters: Safeguarding Quality in Medical Education

Art & the opposing viewpoint: Towards logical reasoning and civil discourse

Academic Chutes and Ladders: Differential Attainment in Medical Education

Healthcare Sustainability: Aligning Health and Environmental Ethics

Beyond the Exam Room: Physicians as Advocates

Does science have a PR Problem? Information, Misinformation, and the Politics of Medicine

The Bioethics of "Baby Boxes"

The Canary in the Coal Mine: Infectious Disease, Vaccine Hesitancy, and What We Owe Each Other

Neurodiversity: What it is and What Happens Now

The Ongoing U.S. Struggle with Maternal Mortality

Care of the Whole Person: The role of Hospital Chaplains

Am I My Students’ Nurse?

A Matter of Trust (with Guest Dr. Thomas Nasca)

The Bioethics of Environmental Injustice

The Occasional Human Sacrifice: A Conversation with Carl Elliott

How Will This Benefit Patients? AI Integration into Clinical Decision Making

Spheres of Morality: The Ethical Codes of the Medical Profession

Academic Freedom in Medicine: Ethics and the Training of Sovereign Professionals

Do healthcare institutions have a conscience?

Societal Informed Consent in the Age of AI

"Trust Me, I'm a Clinician": Medical Expertise, Trust, and the Patient Experience

Health Equity is the Goal, Health Justice is the Path

A Sociologist and a Philosopher Talk Medical Education

The Philosophy of Disability: Equity, Justice and Health

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Clinical Decision Making: A Surgeon's perspective

How We Could End the Pandemic

Physicians' Stress & Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Universal Healthcare: On Human Dignity, Global Co-Operation, and Financial Sustainability

COVID's "politicization tragedy" and physician obligations to public health

Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community

Listening Beyond the Obvious: Delivering Better Care with Narrative Medicine

Telling the Stories Behind COVID: Narrative & Graphic Medicine

Systemic Racism and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy

Bioethics & the Reprocessing and Reuse of Medical Equipment

Long-Term Care, Nursing, and COVID-19 Safety

Protecting Mother and Child: COVID19 and Pregnancy

Doing What They've Trained to Do: Medical Student Responses to COVID

Vulnerable Patients Need Strong Advocates

Social UNdistancing & the Duty to Protect One's Neighbor

Expertise in the Time of COVID: Who has it? Who should have it?

On Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well

Contact Tracing and the Public's Health

It isn't COVID that's racist: Inequities in healthcare in the time of COVID-19

COVID-19 Challenge Trials

Voting for Health: The Entwined Paths of Medicine and Politics

Taking Seriously the Duty to Plan: The Future of Health, Education, Sports, and Politics After COVID

Children: Education and Safety in the Time of COVID

Community Ethics During COVID: Student Voices

Unmasking Ethical Foundation in the Time of COVID: What We Owe Each Other