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#26: Listeners had lots of questions about the ‘conspiracy theory’ episode
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday, co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr dedicated Episode #25 to addressing the most prevalent conspiracy theories about Covid-19. The show dove deep into the ...
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Nov 16, 2020
#25: Is there any truth to these Covid-19 conspiracy theories?
Welcome to episode 25 of “Coronavirus: The Truth,” a podcast that focuses on the facts surrounding COVID-19. Today’s show breaks from our traditional format. It is dedicated to addressing the ...
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Nov 15, 2020
Episode 27: Dr. Amanda Calhoun on white coats and Black Lives
Back in June, a young Black physician stood outside the Sterling Hall of Medicine at Yale University with a sign in her hands that read: “Stop Killing Black People.” Then ...
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Nov 2, 2020
#24: Are the kids alright? What about their parents?
Podcast cohost Jeremy Corr is the father of a four-year-old son. Like many parents, Jeremy is inundated with information (much of it conflicting) about the coronavirus, its spread among children ...
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Oct 19, 2020
#23: Should I cancel my Thanksgiving plans?
Last Thursday, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Americans to rethink their Thanksgiving plans. Reactions have been mixed. Some people agree with public health officials. Others are outraged. Regardless of the reaction, ...
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Oct 11, 2020
Episode 26: ZDoggMD diagnoses the culture of medicine
In this episode, Fixing Healthcare hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome their first returning guest, Zubin Damania, a physician and entertainer known to his legions of followers as ...
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Oct 5, 2020
#22: What do (and don’t) we know about Trump’s illness and treatments?
President Donald Trump tweeted today that he will soon leave Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he has been receiving treatment for Covid-19. Trump’s physician said the president is ...
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Sep 21, 2020
#21: Do these coronavirus statistics surprise you?
There has been no shortage of surprising statistics to emerge from this pandemic. Dr. Robert Pearl’s upcoming Forbes article, “Three Misleading, Dangerous Coronavirus Statistics” (available here on Tuesday, Sept. 21), ...
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Sep 20, 2020
Episode 25: Why U.S. doctors provide low-value care
No expert has gained more insight into the organizational factors associated with physician and health-system performance than Stephen M. Shortell. He is a graduate school professor and dean emeritus of ...
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Sep 7, 2020
#20: What’s the truth about super spreaders, saliva tests and vaccine safety?
In this, the 20th episode of Coronavirus: The Truth, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr address the most pressing questions concerning the COVID-19 pandemic. What are “super spreaders”? Will ...
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Aug 24, 2020
#19: What’s the most promising scientific development so far?
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, Americans have time and again seen highly touted solutions fall short of their hype. Remdisivir, once thought to be a miracle treatment, was recently determined to ...
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Aug 11, 2020
#18: Where to go for nonpartisan COVID-19 info?
Fans of Coronavirus: The Truth have lauded the show’s unbiased, fact-based approach to delivering COVID-19 news and information. But finding unbiased, fact-based info isn’t easy amid today’s politically charged news ...
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Aug 9, 2020
Episode 24: Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe talks COVID-19 testing, your genes and the future of medicine
Anne Wojcicki is a biologist, entrepreneur and the CEO of 23andMe, the leading consumer genetics and research company with more than 12 million customers worldwide. On this episode, Wojcicki spoke ...
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Jul 27, 2020
#17: Will Covid-19 sway the November elections?
“Voters look to elected officials to lead in times of war,” says co-host Dr. Robert Pearl in this episode of Coronvirus: The Truth. “In the minds of most Americans, this ...
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Jul 13, 2020
#16: What are Americans still getting wrong about COVID-19?
Four months after President Trump announced a “state of emergency,” Americans are still as confused as ever about the true state of the pandemic. Our confusion starts with the news: ...
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Jul 12, 2020
Episode 23: How the U.S. coronavirus response went wrong and how to make it right
Exactly what went wrong? Exactly when? Exactly how did we fail and exactly what could have been done to prevent it? Exactly which errors did U.S. healthcare officials make between ...
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Jun 29, 2020
#15: Is it too soon for sports?
“One step forward, two steps back,” is how Dr. Robert Pearl describes the recent rise in coronavirus cases throughout the country. He notes that further attempts to hurry the nation’s ...
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Jun 15, 2020
#14: How will historians look back on our nation’s handling of the coronavirus?
Looking back on the coronavirus pandemic and the national response, Dr. Robert Pearl says, “I believe that historians will judge the American people well and nearly all of our leaders ...
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Jun 14, 2020
Episode 22: Former FDA commissioner on ending the COVID-19 pandemic
As head of the Food and Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997, Dr. David A. Kessler went to war with cigarette companies, approved life-saving HIV/AIDS medications, and introduced consumers to ...
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Jun 8, 2020
#13: Can we trust scientific research in the era of COVID-19?
For prestigious, peer-reviewed medical journals, the retraction of an article is an incredibly rare event. Last week, it happened twice: in The Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine. ...
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Jun 1, 2020
#12: How does racial inequality fuel the coronavirus crisis?
Recent demonstrations and violence sparked by the death of George Floyd are “like a river,” as Dr. Robert Pearl puts it, with many streams coming together to form a powerful ...
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May 24, 2020
#11: Is a COVID-19 vaccine almost ready?
The past week brought promising news from Moderna, a biotech company that announced the results of its early vaccine trials—an announcement that sent the firm’s stock price up 30%. However, ...
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May 18, 2020
#10: What will the ‘new normal’ look like next year based on current facts?
Looking over the horizon of the current coronavirus pandemic, it’s hard to get a clear picture of the “new normal” everyone seems to be talking about. As Dr. Robert Pearl ...
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May 11, 2020
#9: A practical survival guide to COVID-19
Each week, Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr receive dozens of questions from friends, colleagues and listeners. Most questions are about practical, everyday concerns. “Can my son visit his girlfriend?” ...
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May 10, 2020
Episode 21: Ex-Apple CEO talks tech and the rise of the healthcare consumer
John Sculley, the former CEO of PepsiCo and Apple, now has his “head in the cloud” as chairman of the Boston-based health-tech company RxAdvance. In this, the fourth season of ...
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May 4, 2020
#8: Testing, testing: Which COVID-19 test is best?
“I find this study to be one of the most encouraging since this pandemic began,” says Dr. Robert Pearl, referring to research out of Yale that confirms new saliva-based testing ...
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Apr 27, 2020
#7: Is it time to get back to work?
Dr. Robert Pearl, co-host of this show, struck a chord this week with his most recent Forbes column, “3 Coronavirus Facts Americans Must Know Before Returning To Work,” which quickly ...
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Apr 20, 2020
#6: What did scientists learn this week?
It was a big week for science in our nation’s ongoing quest to better understand and combat the coronavirus pandemic. Researchers from Stanford University released findings from a study indicating ...
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Apr 13, 2020
#5: Can we ‘crush the curve’ of this pandemic?
Over the past two weeks, high-profile leaders in the worlds of business, politics and health have put forth plans to reopen the country, mitigate further damage from the coronavirus and ...
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Apr 12, 2020
Episode 20: Siddhartha Mukherjee on COVID-19, genes and physician sacrifice
Welcome to the first episode of season 4. This season of the Fixing Healthcare podcast focuses on finding big ideas and the people behind them. The journey begins with Dr. ...
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Apr 6, 2020
#4: Is this the week the pandemic peaks?
Physician and bestselling author Dr. Robert Pearl fears the nation is in denial about the trajectory of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: “Many people I speak with and nearly all of ...
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Mar 30, 2020
#3: Why can’t we accept the painful truth about COVID-19?
In this episode of Coronavirus: The Truth, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr delve into a “surprising” topic. That is, why do the news media and public seem so ...
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Mar 23, 2020
#2: When will the coronavirus pandemic end?
In the second episode of Coronavirus: The Truth, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine several difficult but important questions surrounding the future of the coronavirus pandemic in the ...
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Mar 16, 2020
#1: Why are we afraid of the coronavirus?
From the hosts of the Fixing Healthcare podcast comes a new and necessary show that focuses on the facts surrounding the coronavirus (COVID-19). This podcast offers science-based updates on the ...
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Mar 10, 2020
Episode 19: Former VA Sec. explains why it’s so hard to serve your country
In the final episode of season three, we welcome Dr. David Shulkin, the ninth U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs. For most of his career, David was a physician and then ...
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Feb 8, 2020
Episode 18: Eric Swalwell on whether Congress can pass a bipartisan healthcare bill
In this episode, we welcome Representative Eric Swalwell, from California’s 15th Congressional District. A former presidential candidate and a rising star in the democratic party, Eric serves on several House ...
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Jan 12, 2020
Episode 17: Talking healthcare politics with James Carville
In this episode, we welcome James Carville, one of the most recognizable figures in American politics. Carville came to fame as the lead strategist on Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign ...
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Dec 13, 2019
Episode 16: ‘The House of God’ author Samuel Shem
Stephen Bergman, who goes by the pseudonym Samuel Shem, took the medical and literary worlds by storm in 1978 when he published his provocative satire “The House of God,” based ...
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Nov 10, 2019
Episode 15: Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz
After eight months of working at his first job out of college, Tyler Shultz was at a crossroads. He realized the device that he was hired to engineer was a ...
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Sep 23, 2019
Episode 14: John Delaney wants to be first president with ‘any experience’ in healthcare
Presidential hopeful John Delaney joined the Fixing Healthcare podcast to spell out his plan for the future of American healthcare policy. In this, the second episode of season three, physician ...
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Sep 8, 2019
Episode 13: David Blumenthal gives Medicare-for-all ‘zero chance’
Welcome to a new season of the Fixing Healthcare podcast. As co-hosts Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr turn their attention to the politics of American healthcare, they were eager to ...
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Aug 9, 2019
Bonus episode: The best of ‘Fixing Healthcare’ so far
In this “bonus episode,” co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr offer their take on the best ideas and most promising solutions from seasons one and two of the Fixing ...
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Jul 6, 2019
Episode 12: Kevin Pho, social media’s No. 1 physician voice
Welcome to the final episode of season two. This season has welcomed guests from outside of the medical mainstream. Season two’s final guest is Dr. Kevin Pho, a primary care ...
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Jun 6, 2019
Episode 11: Modern lessons from medicine’s grisly past with Dr. Fitzharris
Consistent with the theme of Season 2, in which we look outside of traditional walls for medicine for ideas to fix healthcare, our guest this month comes to the Fixing ...
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May 11, 2019
Episode 10: Dr. Zeev Neuwirth’s roadmap for disrupting healthcare
In a career that spans three decades, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth has held many roles: primary care physician, medical educator, medical director and physician executive. Over the years, he’s observed one ...
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Apr 7, 2019
Episode 9: Elisabeth Rosenthal on how patients can fight the system
Season 2 of Fixing Healthcare welcomes leaders from outside of the medical mainstream to deliver practical solutions for our nation’s deepening healthcare crisis. Elisabeth Rosenthal did not disappoint. She is ...
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Mar 11, 2019
Episode 8: Chip Heath on what US healthcare can learn from one-click ordering
As a Stanford business professor and author of four bestselling books, Chip Heath knows a thing or two about what motivates human behavior and organizational change. This month, he’ll put ...
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Feb 11, 2019
Episode 7: India’s top doctor has a message for American healthcare
Welcome to Season Two of Fixing Healthcare. In this eye-opening episode, Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr welcome Dr. Devi Shetty, India’s leading heart surgeon and founder of Narayana Health, which ...
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Jan 6, 2019
Episode 6: Ian Morrison says every healthcare system ‘sucks in its own unique way’
Season One of the Fixing Healthcare podcast concludes this month, along its search for a candidate worthy of becoming the first-ever “Leader of American Healthcare.” Our sixth and final guest ...
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Dec 9, 2018
Episode 5: Don Berwick brings a global perspective to fixing US healthcare
This month, co-hosts Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr agree our nation could learn so much from our next guest, Dr. Don Berwick. Few healthcare leaders have as much global experience, ...
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Nov 7, 2018
Episode 4: Dr. Eric Topol says ‘step one is providing healthcare to all citizens’
Fixing Healthcare co-hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr thought they new a lot about their latest guest, Dr. Eric Topol. They’d both read his bestselling books and closely followed ...
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Oct 9, 2018
Episode 3: Dr. David T. Feinberg says fixing healthcare is ‘the simplest thing we can do’
The Fixing Healthcare podcast continued its quest this month for a candidate worthy to fill the highly coveted (and totally fictitious) role of “Leader of American Healthcare.” Dr. David T. ...
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Sep 8, 2018
Episode 2: Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright wants to unify all the healthcare players
The Fixing Healthcare podcast is back with a new candidate for the highly coveted (and totally fictitious) job of “Leader of American Healthcare.” Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright is author the national ...
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Aug 8, 2018
Episode 1: ZDoggMD has a plan to fix American healthcare
The Fixing Healthcare podcast debuted its first episode by welcoming to the show one of healthcare’s most brilliant and entertaining leaders, Dr. Zubin Damania, MD. Dr. Damania is known throughout ...
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