Medicine

Half the money and none of the respect, a first-year resident says no wonder new doctors aren’t choosing to be generalists. ...

Guests: Erik Adams, Megan McLachlan, Doug Stanhope You hate a show and you watch every week.  This is the phenom ...

Guest: Mary Roach Thousands of books have been written about war — the battles, the weapons, the strategy, and the heroes, b ...

Guest: Sebastian Junger In his new book, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, journalist and documentary ...

At Laurel Hill Cemetery in Northwest Philadelphia, it’s easy to overlook a couple of small patches of grass in the center of the s ...

In the Jewish tradition of shemira, the deceased are comforted until burial. This piece is part of our “Bodies” ...

Dr. Robert Ownbey, a pathologist who heads up the Hahnemann Hospital ...

Guests: Daniel Taylor, Roy Wade More than 16 million children live in poverty in the United States. That means th ...

Guests: Jason Cooper, Dan Feeney, Denise Donald, Malachy McHugh Most of us played sports when we were kids, but w ...

Guests: Andrew Lipke, Frank Bruni, Catherine Price Coming up on today’s show: we’ll listen to Marty’ ...

Pain is the most common reason people visit the doctor, but the over-prescribing of painkillers like OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin has ...

Guests: Stacy Schiff, Davids Casarett, Zephyr Teachout Coming up on today’s show, we’ll hear about the Salem ...

Guests: Lauren Feiner, Lowell Neumann Nickey, Kelly Posner Gerstenhaber, and Ed Modica On Monday, a University of ...

Guests: Neill Epperson and Karen Kleiman Postpartum depression is more prevalent then you might think.  Around o ...

Guest: Charles Duhigg In this hour of Radio Times, we’ll talk with ...