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300th Podcast Interview: Merle Hoffman Discusses Her Just-Published, "CHOICES, A Post-Roe Abortion Rights Manifesto"
Hoffman argues Dobbs strips a fundamental civil and human right from more than half the population, the right of a woman to control her own body. The…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
35:39
US Healthcare's Carbon Footprint
On February 28th I discussed this subject with the American Public Health Association's Dr. Lisa Lines
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February 2024

Dr. Mitchell Li Discusses Reforming Corporate Practice of Medicine Legislation
Treating medicine as a market commodity has paradoxically resulted in a concentrated market with high prices, poor quality and burned out clinicians
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
44:55
Professor John Abraham Discusses Rising Ocean Heat Content
Ocean temperatures continue to rise rapidly by multiple zettajoules - that's a one followed by 21 zeros. (This is my third annual interview with Prof…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
36:48
Dr. Ajay Chaudhary Discusses "The Exhausted of the Earth, Politics in a Burning World"
In his soon-to-be-published book, Dr. Chaudhary argues the climate crisis or the Anthropocene era is the political product of rightwing climate realism…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
43:22

December 2023

Dr. Robert Scoggins Discusses Medicare's Recent Regulatory Reform to Improve Sepsis Care
Sepsis presents an enormous public health threat. There are for approximately 1.7 million hospital cases and 270,000 deaths per year. Sepsis is…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
23:49
David Ropeik Discusses His Just-Published Book, "Curing Cancer-Phobia, How Risk, Fear and Worry Mislead Us"
In part because there are over 10,000 known human diseases and symptoms thereof may have numerous possible explanations, frequently diagnostic tests can…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
48:16

October 2023

UCLA Law Professor Joanna Schwartz Discusses Her Just-Published, "Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable"
"Officers can stop, arrest, search, beat, shoot or kill people who have done nothing wrong," Professor Schwartz writes, "without violating their…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
38:04
Columbia University's Ms. Cynthia Hanawalt Discusses Public Reporting of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
SEC climate disclosure, CA's recently passed climate accountability laws and related regs will have a substantial impact on how the healthcare industry…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
33:57
Dr. Robert Moffit Discusses "Modernizing Medicare: Harnessing the Power of Consumer Choice and Market Competition"
Eleven healthcare policy professionals lay out a conservative vision of Medicare reform.
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
37:13

September 2023

Prof. Nancy Tomes Discusses Patients as Consumers and to What Extent Defining Medicine as a Commodity Has Proven Useful
Prof. Tomes is the author of "Remaking the American Patient, How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients Into Consumers" (UNC Press: 2016)
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
37:08

August 2023

Professors Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind Discuss They're Recently Published Book, "Scarcity: A History From the Origins of…
Professors Albritton Jonsson and Wennerlind’s recently published book, “Scarcity” by Harvard University Press, offers interpretations of a key concept…
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37:25
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