Not Otherwise Specified

Apr 17 2024 20 ep. 41 mins 127
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In “Not Otherwise Specified,” Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, cardiologist and national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, defies our sound-bite culture to go deep with some of medicine’s most innovative thinkers. Her guests’ stories and ideas about health care’s toughest challenges and greatest promise may change the way you think about medicine, health, and society.

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Injured, Not Sidelined

Apr 17 2024 39 mins  
This season finale examines the moral injury that the current U.S. health care system inflicts on physicians and trainees — and how they may be able to offer care that aligns with their values. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400700.

Walking the Dog

Apr 10 2024 44 mins  
This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.

Building Up without Breaking Down

Apr 03 2024 44 mins  
This episode asks how medical educators should navigate between demanding intense commitment and hard-won excellence from trainees and seriously threatening their well-being. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400697. Source from this episode: https://www.culturalcomplications.com/

Whatever It Takes

Mar 20 2024 32 mins  
This episode takes a sobering look at the mental health of U.S. medical students and trainees, in an era when the pressures can be intolerable but the culture still treats depression as weakness. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400696. Notes from this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/nyregion/lorna-breen-suicide-coronavir

Debt Et Cetera

Mar 13 2024 38 mins  
In this episode, host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with two trainees whose lives and careers have been changed by educational debt, and to an economist who has a rather different take on the problem. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400695.

OK, Boomer

Mar 06 2024 36 mins  
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with an expert on generational change and a member of the current trainee cohort about generational values and the need for cross-generational dialogue. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400693.

Unions at the Tip of the Iceberg

Feb 21 2024 37 mins  
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with physician trainees and a former residency program director to weigh the benefits and risks of the new wave of trainee unionization. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400692.

Tough Love

Feb 14 2024 39 mins  
In this episode, a medical educator goes on the record with widespread but rarely publicly voiced concerns about the slippery slope from “wellness days” to inadequate medical training. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400690.

Why We Work

Feb 07 2024 40 mins  
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum explores the shift in people’s perceptions of work’s role in our lives and its effects on medical training and the psychological satisfaction of physicians. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400689.

Revolutionary Rumblings

Jan 31 2024 27 mins  
In the first podcast episode of NOS Season 2, “The Quiet Revolution in Medical Training,” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with trainees, educators, and experts about the seeds of the current upheaval. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2303616.