First Opinion Podcast

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A family physician on making medical abortion more accessible

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An Alzheimer’s scholar on the paradox of declining dementia rates

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Revisiting Uché Blackstock on leaving academic medicine

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking why people gain weight

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An organizer and a physician on how climate change will worsen maternal health inequities

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A scientist-parent on heading back to school with Delta

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An ICU physician on the moral dilemmas mechanical ventilators can raise

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A father describes the legacy of his son’s ultra-rare disease

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An ENT physician & an advocate on the high monetary and social costs of hearing loss

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Two physicians, one of whom had a ‘breakthrough infection,’ on Covid-19 among the vaccinated

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A longtime glioblastoma survivor on how to keep surviving

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Ezekiel Emanuel on vaccine mandates: ‘Covid might not be done with you’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A biostatistician on the ‘gold mine’ in our sewers

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A sister on watching the mental health care system fail her brother

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Priscilla Chan on pediatric biology and research: ‘Children are not tiny adults’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Two Alzheimer’s experts with opposing viewpoints on Aduhelm

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Healing the healers: An advocate and a psychiatrist on clinicians’ mental health and burnout

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A nurse and a physician on harnessing the full potential of nurses

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Danielle Ofri on Covid surges and her ‘postmortem folder’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Chelsea Clinton talks fracking, public health, and childhood newsletters

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Chelsea Clinton on fracking, oxygen shortages, and other public health crises

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A veteran health reporter on the brutality of India’s Covid-19 crisis

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A physician and a philosopher on long Covid’s mind-body mystery

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A medical historian on infectious diseases as the ‘third army’ of the Civil War

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A Baghdad-trained physician on the barriers to getting a medical license in the U.S.

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Two addiction specialists debunk the myth of ‘excited delirium’ used in police encounters

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Antibiotic experts on the threat of antimicrobial resistant superbugs