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Healthcare Unfiltered — 278 episodes

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Episode 279 - CGT in the Community: Challenges and Solutions

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Episode 278: What’s New in Multicancer Early Detection With Tom Beer

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Episode 277 - When “Yes” Becomes Too Much: Confronting Physician Burnout

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Episode 276: Radiation Therapy for GI Cancer With Nina Sanford

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Episode 275: PAVING the Path After Breast Cancer With Amy Comander

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Episode 274 - Food and Cancer: The Truth

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Episode 273 - Radiation Oncology: Past and Future

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Episode 272: Genomics for Rare Diseases With Katherine Stueland

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Episode 271: Behind the Scenes of “The Pitt” With Sylvia Owusu-Ansah

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Episode 270: Translational Research Questions in Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Episode 269: The Pain Brokers and Tort Law With Beth Burch

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Episode 268: Everything ADCs in Cancer With Paolo Tarantino

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Episode 267: State of Peer Review and Medical Publishing With Nora Disis

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Episode 266 - History of Viruses: Kill Switch

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Episode 265: ASCO GI Updates: Special Episode

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Episode 264: Oncology Career Paths With the Two Onc Docs

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Episode 263: ADCs in Breast Cancer: What to Know With VK Gadi

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Episode 262: MRD and ctDNA in Lymphoma With Megan Melody

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Episode 261: Rebooting Cancer Care With Doug Flora

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Episode 260: TNBC Now and the Future With Greg Vidal

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Episode 259: AI Enhancing Cancer Diagnosis With Jonathan Chen

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Episode 258: AI Now and Later With Sanjay Juneja

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Episode 257: Reflections of an ASCO President With Robin Zon

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Episode 256: Managing Hodgkin Lymphoma in 2026

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Episode 255: AI and Healthcare: A Patient and a Caregiver Perspective

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Episode 254: Innovation in Community Oncology With COA President Debra Patt

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Episode 253: Advances in Mutation-Driven Lung Cancer

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Episode 252: Advances in Non-Mutation Driven and Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Episode 251: Low-Risk MDS: What To Do?

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Episode 250: Lung Cancer Updates From a Patient Perspective

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Episode 249: No More Tears: A Fascinating Book on J&J

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Episode 248: The Truth About 340B With Anthony DiGiorgio

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Episode 247: Longevity Clinic and Concierge Medicine With Anand Patel

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Episode 246: T-Cell Therapy and TScan With Gavin MacBeath

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Episode 245: Advances in Radiation Oncology: The ASTRO Perspective

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Episode 244: Misinformation and the AMA Controversy: Part 2

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Episode 243: AI in Precision Oncology With Douglas Flora

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Episode 242: The Age of Data and Informatics With Monique Diaz

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Episode 241: Mind Over Matter: The Art of Functional Medicine

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Episode 240: The Medicaid Dilemma With Anthony DiGiorgio

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Episode 239: Misinformation and the AMA Controversy With Ed Livingston

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Episode 238: Reinventing Blood Collection: Tasso’s At-Home Solution

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Episode 237: Advances in Lymphoma: Report from ASCO and EHA 2025

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Episode 236: Advances in Multiple Myeloma: Report from ASCO and EHA 2025

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Episode 235: Cell and Gene Therapies: The Logistics

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Episode 234: The Man Who Wants to Cure All Diseases

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Episode 233: Vivek’s Takes: ASCO 2025

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Episode 232: Changing the Blood Diagnostic Industry With Dena Marrinucci

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Episode 231: AI in Regulatory Processes With Robert Califf

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Episode 230: Part 2: The Keto Heart Study

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Episode 229: Part 1: The Keto Heart Study

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Episode 228: Should the Government Negotiate Drug Prices? The Debate

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Episode 227: The Expanding Role of APPs in Oncology

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Episode 226: GI Cancers in Young Patients With Emil Lou and Shruti Patel

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Episode 225: Classifications for Myeloid and Lymphoid Malignancies: The Pathologists Finally Agree

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Episode 224: Beyond the Image: AI’s Expanding Role in Healthcare with Jonathan Carlson

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Episode 223: Pesticides, Courts, and Your Rights

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Episode 222: Second Opinion Clinics With Mohammad Jahanzeb

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Episode 221: From Lab to Startup: Dr. Simrit Parmar on Launching Cellenkos

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Episode 220: Language Matters: A Patient Perspective

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Episode 219: Major Progress in Adjuvant Renal Cell Carcinoma

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Episode 218: NIH Funding Cuts and the Indirect Funding Fiasco With Jay Giri

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Episode 217: Smoldering Myeloma: The Epic Debate

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Episode 216: What is AI: A Primer

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Episode 215: Highlander Health: Data-Driven Innovation in Medicine

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Episode 214: VersaWare: The Story of a Diet Startup Company

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Episode 213: Physicians and COIs With Andrew Foy

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Episode 212: The Myths and Facts of Early Lung Cancer Detection

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Episode 211: Caring for the Caregiver With Maz Jobrani

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Episode 210: CLL Updates and the Venetoclax Story With Matt Davids

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Episode 209: Nutrition, Wellness, and Health: It's Your Choice

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Episode 208: Lymphoma: A Year in Review

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Episode 207: Vivek's Takes: ESMO 2024 and AACR Debate

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Episode 206: Advances in Bladder Cancer With Andrea Apolo

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Episode 205: Fireside Chat With CMO of IMF Joe Mikhael

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Episode 204: Multi-Cancer Early Detection: A Clinical Trial Update

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Episode 203: The Cancer Journey: My Second Book

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Episode 202: The Cancer Journey: A Patient and Caregiver Story

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Episode 201: Fatal to Fearless: The Inspiring Kathy Giusti Story

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Episode 200: The Science of Sequencing: When and Why

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Episode 199: AI and Pathology: Now and the Future

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Episode 198: A Company to Reduce Burnout

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Episode 197: Finding a Job After Fellowship With Jennifer Marks and Megan Melody

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Episode 196: Survivorship and the International Myeloma Foundation With Yelak Biru

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Episode 195: Can We Fix Healthcare in America?

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Episode 194: From Connections to Careers: Supporting IMGs in Oncology

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Episode 193: Cabinet Health: A Sustainable-Healthtech Startup

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Episode 192: Wellness and Burnout: Are There Solutions?

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Episode 191: The Truth About Liquid Biopsies With Christian Rolfo

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Episode 190: The Process of Fellowship Applications Demystified

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Episode 189: ASCO Updates in GU Oncology With Drs. Rana McKay and Petros Grivas

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Episode 188: From Apartheid to Abraxane: Dr. Soon-Shiong on Medicine, Entrepreneurship, Business, and Triumph

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Episode 187: ASCO Updates in Lung Cancer With Balazs Halmos and Lecia Sequist

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Episode 186: VIVEK'S TAKES on ASCO 2024

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Episode 185: Helping Women On Chemotherapy: An Entrepreneur Journey

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Episode 184: The Great Social Experiment With David Krissman

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Episode 183: Defending Doctors With Ronald Chapman

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Episode 182: Alcohol and Cancer With Shaalan Beg and Noelle LoConte

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Episode 181: JCO Oncology Advances With Pamela Kunz

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Episode 180: End-of-Life and Palliative Care With Chandana Banerjee

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Episode 179: From Diagnosis to Empowerment: The Evolution of The Patient Story

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Episode 178: Advances in Primary Brain Cancers With Manmeet Ahluwalia

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Episode 177: AI and Drug Development With Adam Petrich

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Episode 176: The ABIM-MOC Saga Continues

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Episode 175: Advocating for Patients in the Contemporary Era With Grace Cordovano

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Episode 174: Generative AI With Simon Arkell

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Episode 173: NBPAS: The Alternative to the ABIM MOC

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Episode 172: ASCO-GI Research of Note With Tanios Bekaii-Saab

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Episode 171: ASCO-GU Top Clinical Data With Pedro Barata

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Episode 170: CRISPR for Sickle Cell Disease With James LaBelle

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Episode 169: Burnout and Death: The Story of a CVS Pharmacist

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Episode 168: Big Data and Collaboration: A Case Study on Improving Outcomes in Hodgkin Lymphoma

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Episode 167: The ABIM MOC: A 6-Month Update Since the Petition

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Episode 166: Keto, Cholesterol, Lipids, and a Cardiac Study

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Episode 165: A Radiation Oncology Perspective on the PROSPECT Trial

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Episode 164: Non-Compete Clause in Medicine: The Case of Dr. David Lankford

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Episode 163: The Accelerated Approval Regulatory Pathway With US FDA Commissioner Robert Califf

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Episode 162: Revolutionizing Lung Cancer Care: Unveiling ESMO 2023's Takeaways

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Episode 161: The Truth About Chinese and Eastern Medicine With Steve Stavs

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Episode 160: Human Connections: A Physician-Patient Perspective

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Episode 159: The Microbiome and Cancer: Myths and Facts

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Episode 158: Survivorship and Caring for AYA Patients With Allison Rosenthal

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Episode 157: ASCO CEO Exclusive on ABIM-MOC Survey

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Episode 156: Simplifying the Breakthroughs in Bladder Cancer With Petros Grivas

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Episode 155: Disparities in Dermatology With Soo Park and Farah Abdulla

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Episode 154: Communication in Oncology: Delivering Bad News

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Episode 153: The Jefferson System and Alliance Oncology Legal Battle

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Episode 152: ASH Position on the ABIM MOC With Robert Brodsky and Mikkael Sekeres

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Episode 151: Legal Rights for Cancer Patients With Shelly Rosenfeld

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Episode 150: Progress in Geriatric Oncology: Reviewing the ASCO Guideline

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Episode 149: Are There Real Solutions to the ABIM MOC?

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Episode 148: Drug Shortages in the US: The FDA Perspective With Robert Califf

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Episode 147: Pitfalls of Clinical Trials: Lessons From ADAURA

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Episode 146: The GU Power Hour With Neeraj Agarwal and Rana McKay

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Episode 145: The SCAI Position on ABIM MOC: Cardiologists Leading the Way

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Episode 144: Dietary Interventions and Cancer With Urvi Shah

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Episode 143: The Case Against the ABIM MOC With Wes Fisher

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Episode 142: ABIM and MOC: The Epic Debate With Richard Baron and Aaron Goodman

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Episode 141: Palliative and Hospice Care: Challenges and Opportunities

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Episode 140: Fixing Fragmented Healthcare With Ilana Yurkiewicz

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Episode 139: Addressing Hot Topics in Oncology With the ASCO CMO

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Episode 138: Life Lessons From An Entrepreneur With Tom Harari

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Episode 137: Beyond the ASCO Plenary: Alex Herrera’s Story

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Episode 136: Financial Hardship for Medical Professionals With Tyler Olson

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Episode 135: All Things CLL With Nitin Jain

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Episode 134: Queen of England Legacy From a British Citizen

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Episode 133: PBMs: Friends or Foes?

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Episode 132: Tiffany McConathy: A Mother and Daughter Story

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Episode 131: Reducing Out-of-Pocket Prescription Costs With Kyle Kiser

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Episode 130: Quality of Life, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Clinical Trials

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Episode 129: “The Fun Habit” With Mike Rucker

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Episode 128: Debate of the Decade: RCTs in the Era of Precision Oncology

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Episode 127: “Toxic Exposure” Review With Kelly Ryerson and Mikkael Sekeres

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Episode 126: Pharma and Academia: Dr. Charles Bennett's Battle

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Episode 125: A Shocking Whistleblower Story With Linda Martin

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Episode 124: Integrating APPs Into Oncology Care

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Episode 123: Cytogenetics and Cancer Care With Linda Baughn and Yassmine Akkari

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Episode 122: The Monsanto Saga and Launch of “Toxic Exposure” With Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Episode 121: A Conversation With an ASH President

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Episode 120: For Blood and Money: A Biotech Story

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Episode 119: BTK-Inhibitor Development: A Researcher's Perspective

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Episode 118: The Journey of a Healthcare Startup CEO With Jennifer Fried

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Episode 117: Diet, Exercise, and Lifestyle Decisions for Cancer Patients With Urvi Shah and Neil Lyengar

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Episode 116: Should Low-Grade Prostate Cancer Be Considered Cancer?

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Episode 115: The History and Future of Precision Medicine with Ray Kurzrock

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Episode 114: Cancer in the Arab World with Humaid AlShamsi

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Episode 113: Access to Optimal Care: Disparities Between EU and US

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Episode 112: COIs and Pharma Physician Payments with Christopher Booth

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Episode 111: AI in Global Medicine and Underserved Countries

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Episode 110: Surrogate Endpoints in Solid and Liquid Tumors

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Episode 109: Podcasting for Patients: Adam Cifu’s Latest Venture

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Episode 108: Challenges and Bias against IMGs in America

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Episode 107: The Inflation Reduction Act: What's Next?

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Episode 106: Twitter's Most Admired Couple: Aaron and Amalia

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Episode 105: Separating Hype from Hope for Cancer Patients

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Episode 104: ESMO-GI Update: The Amazing Chalabi Plot

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Episode 103: Hyperemesis Gravidarum: The Truth and the Myths

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Episode 102: Drugs and the FDA: A New Book With Mikkael Sekeres

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Episode 101: OVERDOSE: A Real Tragedy Needing Solutions

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Episode 100: Synthetic Control Arms and the Regulatory Maze

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Episode 99: CLL and the Patient Perspective

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Episode 98: Evidence-Based Medicine in a COVID World

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Episode 97: Naturopathic and Complementary Medicine: What is it?

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Episode 96: Practicing Oncology in Low and Middle Income Countries

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Episode 95: Radiopharmaceuticals: Resolving an Enigma

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Episode 94: Careers in Medicine, Mentorship, and Medical Meetings

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Episode 93: Advances and Controversies in Thoracic Oncology

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Episode 92: Can Urologists Spearhead Medical Oncology Research?

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Episode 91: Nuances of the Newest Leukemia Classification

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Episode 90: Complexities of Designing Clinical Trials

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Episode 89: Pharmacovigilance and Adherence to Oral Oncolytics

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Episode 88: Daring Greatly: Career Change of a Physician to a Life Coach

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Episode 87: Carving Out a Healthcare Career Beyond Providership

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Episode 85: Multiple Myeloma With Multiple Guests: A Stakeholder Roundtable

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Episode 84: Patient Voice on Social Media: A Survivor Story

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Episode 83: Radiation Oncology: The Past, Present, and Future

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Episode 82: Collider Bias: What Is It and Why We Should Care

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Episode 81: AML and MDS: Unprecedented Progress

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Episode 80: A Convo with a Provocative Hematologist

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Episode 79: Updates from the Community Oncology Alliance with Kashyap Patel

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Episode 78: CRISPR: The Healthcare Technology of the Future

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Episode 77: RCTs Under the Microscope with Vincent Rajkumar

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Episode 76: Leadership and Entrepreneurship with Samer Saab

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Episode 75: Updates on GU Cancer Advancements with Rana McKay

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Episode 74: The Ketogenic Saga Continues with Nicholas Norwitz and David Feldman

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Episode 73: The Enigma of the Pathology Profession with Sanam Loghavi

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Episode 72: Paul Offit: Making Sense of All of Your Vaccine Questions

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Episode 71: Vaccine Hesitancy and Cognitive Bias with Tara Haelle

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Episode 70: Walking America and the World with Chris Arnade

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Episode 69: Baz: The Journey of a True Healer

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Episode 68: Criticism and Credence to Medical Writing with Marielle Fares and Tom Lang

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Episode 67: Studying and Managing Rare Diseases with Naveen Pemmaraju

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Episode 66: FDA Accelerated Approvals and COI Phenomenons With Bishal Gyawali

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Episode 65: Is CAR-T Therapy Superior to ASCT for Relapsed/Refractory DLBCL?

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Episode 64: Will POLARIX Finally Spell Doom for R-CHOP?

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Episode 63: Masking Children in School: Debunking the Science

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Episode 62: Omicron, Boosters, Vaccines, Myocarditis, and More With Emily Landon

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Episode 61: Training, Immigration, and Illness With Samer Al Hadidi

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Episode 60: Real-World Evidence vs Clinical Trials

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Episode 59: All Things Hodgkin Lymphoma With Graham Collins

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Episode 58: The Diet and Cholesterol Debate With Dave Feldman and Ethan Weiss

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Episode 57: A Journey Through Lung Cancer History With Govindan Ramaswamy

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Episode 56: Committed: The Trials and Tribulations of Psychiatry Training

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Episode 55: Blockchain and Decentralized Data: The Future of Healthcare

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Episode 54: The Theranos Debacle With Ben Mazer

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Episode 53: American Healthcare: A Hot Mess

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Episode 52: The Medical Crisis in Lebanon: Is There a Solution?

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Episode 51: Diet, Exercise, and Obesity With Jerry Teixeira

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Episode 50: Reverse Engineering the Mystery of Cholesterol With Dave Feldman

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Episode 49: Debating the Single Payer Model and FDA Regulatory Processes

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Episode 48: Mid-Career Academic Transitions with Mikkael Sekeres and David Steensma

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Episode 47: Challenges for Young Academicians and Trainees With Sonikpreet Aulakh

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Episode 46: The FDA: The Gift that Keeps on Giving

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Episode 45: Revisiting COVID-19: Variants and Vaccines

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Episode 44: A Precise Depiction of Precision Medicine

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Episode 43: Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma: Monitor or Transplantation?

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Episode 42: Smoldering Multiple Myeloma: To Treat or Not to Treat?

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Episode 41: Docs Who Rock

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Episode 40: The Whistleblower Who Changed Everything: Nancy Olivieri’s Story

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Episode 39: R-CHOP versus DA-EPOCH-R for Double-Hit Lymphoma

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Episode 38: Updates on NET and Diversity Research With Pamela Kunz

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Episode 37: Press Releases, Pre-Prints, Abstracts, and Papers: Reviewing the Peer-Review Process

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Episode 36: What to Consider When Considering the Keto Diet

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Episode 35: An Update on the COVID Situation in India

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Episode 34: Medical Bullying and Physician Suicide: Laura Silinskyte’s Story

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Episode 33: The Oncologist as a Caretaker: A Husband and Wife Story

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Episode 32: Should CNS Prophylaxis be Given to DLBCL Patients?

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Episode 31: Optimizing Clinical Trial Design with Bishal Gyawali

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Episode 30: COVID Vaccine Passports: Necessary or Nefarious?

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Episode 29: COVID-19 and the Tragedy in India: The Real Story

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Episode 28: Near Equivalence and Designing Cost-Effective Cancer Therapies

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Episode 27: Lung Cancer Screening: Myths and Controversies

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Episode 26: COVID-19 and Mental Health: No Easy Answers

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Episode 25: History of Medicine: Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

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Episode 24: Mental Illness and Firearm Law with Amy Barnhorst and Rocco Pallin

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Episode 23: Artificial Intelligence with Amazon Practice Manager Aziz Nazha

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Episode 22: Simplifying the COVID-19 Vaccines With Priya Sampathkumar

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Episode 21: Cardiology and Boxing Promotion: A Sit-Down With Andrew Foy

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Episode 20: ASCO-GU Virtual Meeting Round-Up With Toni Choueiri

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Episode 19: Beyond ADAURA: What's Right and What's Wrong With FDA Regulations?

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Episode 18: Resurfacing Old Drugs: Lessons From "Chasing My Cure"

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Episode 17: Debates and Controversies in Multiple Myeloma

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Episode 16: ASCO-GI Virtual Meeting Round-Up With Tanios Bekaii-Saab

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Episode 15: What to Expect From Medicare Part D in 2021

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Episode 14: Vaccine Distribution and Mandate Ethics With Alison Bateman-House

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Episode 13: Cardiology, Comedy, and COVID-19 with Rohin Francis

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Episode 12: Drug Approvals and Real-World Use: The Case of Selinexor in Multiple Myeloma

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Episode 11: Recapping 2020: A Year of COVID-19, Tradeoffs, and Censorship

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Episode 10: Advances in Multiple Myeloma From the ASH Annual Meeting

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Episode 9: Words Matter: The Patient Perspective of Language Used on Social Media

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Episode 8: Real-World Evidence and Value-Based Care in the Academic World

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Episode 7: Direct-To-Consumer Advertising in Healthcare: Legality and Ethics

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Episode 6: Advocacy in a Time of Uncertainty: Jill Feldman’s Ongoing Battle With Lung Cancer

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Episode 5: Measurable Residual Disease: Hype or Hope?

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Episode 4: COIs in Medicine: A Broken System

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Episode 3: Expert Roundtable: Genitourinary Updates and Top Data

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Episode 2: CRISPR: Monumental Technology and Noble Prize Winner

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Episode 1: Cardiology, COVID-19, and College Sports: What Went Wrong