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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
Listen now (34 mins) | SEC climate disclosure, CA's recently passed climate accountability laws and related regs will have a substantial impact on how…
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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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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
37:25
Dr. Richard Young Discusses His Dystopian Healthcare Novel, "2060" (August 1st)
Dr. Young’s novel, “2060” tells the story of Willis Smith, a data analyst employed by IntegraHealth Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Smith is assigned to identify a…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
34:57
July 2023
And . . . this publication: "As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, HHS Refuses to Do Its Part"
This past Sunday, July 9, “The Hill” published my latest climate and health related article, again, “As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, HHS Refuses to…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
Another Climate and Health Publication: "HHS Again Suspends Disbelief: The Medicaid Program Will Ignore the Greatest Health Threat to…
This morning “The Healthcare Blog” posted this essay. It is an abbreviated version of a comment letter I forwarded to the the Centers for Medicare and…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
Sonia Roschnik Discusses the International Hospital Federation's Environmental Sustainability Programming
On background, listeners are aware that the US healthcare industry emits an enormous amount of GHG pollution, that hospitals are the largest contributor…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
34:32
June 2023
Professor Larry Churchill Discusses "Bioethics Reenvisioned, A Path Toward Health Justice"
Professor Larry R. Churchill, Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics at Vanderbilt, discusses “Biotethics Reenvisioned,” a just-published book he…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
31:23
May 2023
285th Podcast: Wendell Potter Discusses the Recently Released Documentary, "American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System" (May 26th)
As this hour-long documentary explains US hospital care, and healthcare in sum, is largely volume-driven that over-emphasizes expensive specialty versus…
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David Introcaso, Ph.D.
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