Fixing Healthcare Podcast
Episodes
#5: Can we ‘crush the curve’ of this pandemic?
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 furt...
Episode 20: Siddhartha Mukherjee on COVID-19, genes and physician sacrifice
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 jo...
#4: Is this the week the pandemic peaks?
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Physician and bestselling author Dr. Robert Pearl fears the nation is in denial about the trajectory of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic: “Many peo...
#3: Why can’t we accept the painful truth about COVID-19?
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#2: When will the coronavirus pandemic end?
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of Coronavirus: The Truth, hosts Dr. Robert Pearl and Jeremy Corr examine several difficult but important questions surrounding ...
#1: Why are we afraid of the coronavirus?
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 19: Former VA Sec. explains why it’s so hard to serve your country
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 18: Eric Swalwell on whether Congress can pass a bipartisan healthcare bill
09 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we welcome Representative Eric Swalwell, from California’s 15th Congressional District. A former presidential candidate and a risin...
Episode 17: Talking healthcare politics with James Carville
12 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 16: ‘The House of God’ author Samuel Shem
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 15: Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 14: John Delaney wants to be first president with ‘any experience’ in healthcare
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Presidential hopeful John Delaney joined the Fixing Healthcare podcast to spell out his plan for the future of American healthcare policy. In this, th...
Episode 13: David Blumenthal gives Medicare-for-all ‘zero chance’
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 he...
Bonus episode: The best of ‘Fixing Healthcare’ so far
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 on...
Episode 12: Kevin Pho, social media’s No. 1 physician voice
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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. ...
Episode 11: Modern lessons from medicine’s grisly past with Dr. Fitzharris
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Episode 10: Dr. Zeev Neuwirth’s roadmap for disrupting healthcare
11 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a career that spans three decades, Dr. Zeev Neuwirth has held many roles: primary care physician, medical educator, medical director and physician ...
Episode 9: Elisabeth Rosenthal on how patients can fight the system
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Season 2 of Fixing Healthcare welcomes leaders from outside of the medical mainstream to deliver practical solutions for our nation’s deepening heal...
Episode 8: Chip Heath on what US healthcare can learn from one-click ordering
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a Stanford business professor and author of four bestselling books, Chip Heath knows a thing or two about what motivates human behavior and organiz...
Episode 7: India’s top doctor has a message for American healthcare
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 6: Ian Morrison says every healthcare system ‘sucks in its own unique way’
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Season One of the Fixing Healthcare podcast concludes this month, along its search for a candidate worthy of becoming the first-ever “Leader of Amer...
Episode 5: Don Berwick brings a global perspective to fixing US healthcare
09 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 ha...
Episode 4: Dr. Eric Topol says ‘step one is providing healthcare to all citizens’
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
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 be...
Episode 3: Dr. David T. Feinberg says fixing healthcare is ‘the simplest thing we can do’
09 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Fixing Healthcare podcast continued its quest this month for a candidate worthy to fill the highly coveted (and totally fictitious) role of “Lea...
Episode 2: Dr. Halee Fischer-Wright wants to unify all the healthcare players
08 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Fixing Healthcare podcast is back with a new candidate for the highly coveted (and totally fictitious) job of “Leader of American Healthcare.”...
Episode 1: ZDoggMD has a plan to fix American healthcare
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Fixing Healthcare podcast debuted its first episode by welcoming to the show one of healthcare’s most brilliant and entertaining leaders, Dr. Zu...