First Opinion Podcast

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First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be even worse

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what’s ‘primarily medical in nature’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — 2,000 miles apart

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Pharma companies market their drugs to young adults — so why don’t they include them in clinical trials?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The ‘underground market’ for insulin and diabetes supplies

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett, Theresa Gaffney and Alissa Ambrose

Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can’t advocate for themselves

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A public health expert passes on football’s full body collisions for youth

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Who owns your health data — and why you should care

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A resident physician on the Covid-stoked fire that burned him out

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal by these drugs

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

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Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition

Listen: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be even worse

Listen: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what’s ‘primarily medical in nature’

Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

Listen: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?

Listen: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — 2,000 miles apart

Listen: Pharma companies market their drugs to young adults — so why don’t they include them in clinical trials?

Listen: The ‘underground market’ for insulin and diabetes supplies

Listen: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant

Listen: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing

Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’

Listen: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can’t advocate for themselves

Listen: A public health expert passes on football’s full body collisions for youth

Listen: Who owns your health data — and why you should care

Listen: Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War

Listen: A resident physician on the Covid-stoked fire that burned him out

Listen: A patient and a nephrologist on how using race in kidney testing puts lives at risk

Listen: An antibiotic expert on her body’s stinging betrayal by these drugs

Listen: A physician and philosopher on the dangers of ‘curating’ natural deaths and executions

Listen: A Filipinx physician on health disparities disguised by data

Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible

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