Podcasts about power health

In this episode of the Chasing Tomorrow podcast, host Joe Gagnon talks with special guest Pieter De Leenheer, CTO at 1up Health and a father of four. Originally from Belgium, Pieter has a rich background in data governance and metadata management, with over two decades in the field. The conversation delves into the integration of data and health, exploring the idea that despite health being a priority, there is a significant gap in our understanding due to the difficulty in accessing actionable data. Pieter shares insights from his journey in making data a true business asset and discusses the transformative potential of health data, emphasizing the healthcare industry's unique position due to its rapid data growth. They touch on the concepts of longevity, health span, and the impact of lifestyle decisions, advocating for proactive health management supported by data evidence. The discussion also covers the evolution of data science roles in healthcare, the importance of standardizing data for better interoperability, and the vision of making personal health records accessible in a digital format. Pieter reflects on the future of health data, its ethical and privacy considerations, and the role of AI as a tool for enhancing healthcare decision-making.

In the first of 4 podcasts about training effectively for master cyclists to get and stay fast on their bike, improve health, and increase longevity and quality of life I talk to Chris from Bar Bells and Bikes. Chris is a keen cyclist and strength and conditioning expert. We talk about why master cyclists should focus on lifting, how to progress from body weight to lifting heavy why you should and why yoga and pilates are not enough to make you strong.

Ben Davison spends some time looking at the Robodebt Royal Commission report, the scathing rebuke of the Morrison government, the potential crimes of former ministers and the culture of cooperation between corporate and billionaire owned media and the Coalition of treating people in need as less than human. Ben explains why Robodebt was bad policy, how we avoid such policies in the future and why unions calling for a more secure public sector workforce are part of the solution. Join your union at australianunions.org.au/wow The Health Services Union (HSU) in NSW has won a pay rise of up to 8.5% for its lowest paid members and Ben explains how this union has tackled the issue of low paid "essential workers" and won. The Commonwealth has also announced changes to teacher education over the next two years so Ben has a look at why that's happened, why we need to fix the Morrison era funding set ups and what impact it has on productivity, If you'd like to get the Week on Wednesday emailed to you everyweek and help us reach ever more people you can become a supporter at www.buymeacoffee.com/weekonwednesday

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Welcome to Money Power Health, a podcast on how our health is influenced by commercial forces, wealth and power, hosted by Dr. Nason Maani, lecturer in inequalities and global health policy at the University of Edinburghs Global Health Policy Unit. In this first episode, with the help of guest Professor Sandro Galea, Dean of Boston University School of Public Health, we introduce the podcast, and discuss the main themes in the podcast title. A link to the book mentioned at the start of the podcast is here: https://academic.oup.com/book/44473 And Sandro Galea's book entitled Well, which we also referenced, is here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/well-9780190916831?cc=gb&lang=en& You can find out more about Sandro Galea here: https://www.bu.edu/sph/profile/sandro-galea/ If you have any ideas for podcast guests or topics, you can email Nason here: nmaani@ed.ac.uk

It's almost impossible to quantify the problems with the way we approach healthcare in this country. For something which should be a human right, high-quality healthcare is often provided in unlimited amounts to the rich at the expense of the poor—especially people of color. In his new book “The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER,” our guest Dr. Thomas Fisher examines the injustices of our system through the eyes of a physician trying to do his best for his patients in a system that seems designed to prevent him from doing so. PRAISE for “The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER” “This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are, especially when they go wrong. Fisher's account of his days is gripping. . . . His frustration, his outraged intelligence, is palpable on every page. . . . the best account I've read about working in a busy hospital during Covid.” —The New York Times “A briskly paced, heartfelt, often harrowing year in the life of an ER doctor on Chicago's historically Black South Side.” —San Francisco Chronicle “The Emergency is graphic and gut-wrenching, as it should be. It is an undeniable call for a just health-care system, as it will be.”—Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist “With scalpel-like precision and searing patient stories, Thomas Fisher exposes the battlefield of medicine and the scarring—and often fatal—wounds of inequality. The Emergency is a bat call. Health care doesn't care, inequality kills, and we must do better.”—Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, author of What the Eyes Don't See “The Emergency is a doctor's-eye view of the layered crises afflicting a single Chicago community and the entire nation that surrounds it. By turns brutal and beautiful, this is a tale of life, death, and the people whose efforts often determine which of those two will prevail.”—Jelani Cobb, co-editor of The Matter of Black Lives “Tired of reading about COVID-19? Don't make the mistake of missing the best book about it to date. The Emergency is Thomas Fisher's memoir of the first year of the pandemic's grip on Chicago's South Side, where he grew up and where he battled the disease, along with every other ailment and injury that reached his emergency room. This is no past-tense memoir but a gripping account of events as they happen. It's beautifully rendered in the present tense and leavened by a series of letters he composed to, and in honor of, his patients. But this is also a book about our country, a wrenching and tender reflection on an aphorism Fisher invokes: When America catches a cold, black America catches pneumonia. It won't take you long to read this fast-paced account, but you won't forget it anytime soon.”—Paul Farmer, M.D., author of Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor “Riveting . . . [Fisher] eloquently captures the intensity of the situation . . . and shares heartrending stories of victims. . . . The result is a powerful reckoning with racial injustice and a moving portrait of everyday heroism.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Dramatic . . . well written and compassionate . . . a persuasive, sympathetic . . . insider's report on a broken system.”—Kirkus Reviews SEE LESS --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alyssa-milano-sorry-not-sorry/message

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“The world is more and more toxic each month, each year, now since the Industrial Revolution. When you start to look at this from a macro and micro perspective, I see why this is such a problem… All you have to do is deplete one mineral and now your body's working harder to keep your blood clean and alkalized. It's a wonder to me that we do as well as we do; based on how much our body has to work to keep us healthy.” Barton Scott is a chemical engineer, who combined his background with his experience as a nutritionist and researcher, and founded Upgraded Formulas. Barton is passionate about helping people combat the stressors of daily life, the toxicity of the modern world, the utter lack of nutrients, and the mineral absorption issues that we all face, and he has made it his mission to reduce suffering by increasing the public's understanding of the human body's interrelationships. Key takeaways: The biggest issue with most supplements on the market today. [5:00] How important is it to avoid heavy metals, and what are the steps we need to take to minimize their negative effects? [9:08] The most valuable, affordable, and actionable method of testing for mineral deficiencies. [14:25] Why blood testing falls short. [16:07] If you're taking high doses of Vitamin D without this mineral, you could be doing more harm than good. [20:28] Exactly how much Vitamin D should we be taking, what's the optimal time to take it, and how do we ensure activation? [23:24] Is adding salt to water recommended? How much? [30:45] Do mineral deficiencies play a role in ADHD? [34:14] Is coffee bad? [38:42] Which minerals are key for maximizing men's virility? [40:16] Why it's not possible to achieve complete balance from diet alone. [45:40] Barton's Top-5 bio-hacks for optimal health. [51:50] Sponsors: Paleo Valley makes delicious beef sticks that are sourced from 100% grass-fed and grass-finished cows that are never fed grains nor harmful antibiotics. Use coupon code "JAY" to save 15%. Epoch Whey Protein is a verified grass-fed, delicious tasting and easily digestible whey isolate. Use coupon code JAY to save 20%.  

Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture In conversation with Dr. Steven Larson, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Acclaimed for his ''exceptional empathy and care'' (Boston Globe) as a physician, anthropologist, and infectious-disease expert, Paul Farmer is the Kolokotrones University Professor and Chair of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University and is chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. He is also a founding director of Partners In Health, an international non-profit organization that provides medical care and advocacy for those living in poverty. The recipient of the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences, a MacArthur Fellowship, and honorary doctorates from numerous universities, Farmer is the author of Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues and Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. In Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds, he melds firsthand reportage, science, and advocacy into a narrative account of 2014's deadly Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. Books may be purchased through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 6/14/2021)

“We do hold a lot of power and we can use that power to enable people power to achieve some of those structural changes that we want” Self-proclaimed intellectual pessimist yet action optimist, Pedja Stodijicic, MD, MPH, discusses the power of youth led movements, the agency of collective, and the importance of public narratives alongside the need for positivity and humor in the medical field.   Visit Pedja's new website www.peoplepowerhealth.org and sign up to plugin for ways to link arms.   If you live in California, please join us by visiting www.ClimateHealthNow.org and introduce yourself and become a member by emailing us at: caclimatehealthnow@gmail.com

School teacher, Kaitie Miyashiro-Carvahlo, joins our table to talk about how her yoga practice, Asana and Aloha, has changed her life. Kaitie finds yoga poses that compliment her carefully selected Hawaiian proverbs - making it perfect for natives, locals and anyone connected our island home. Her goal is to make yogasana available for everyone so they can experience the same benefits she has. www.heyyouhithere3.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/heyyouhithere3/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heyyouhithere3/support

When we talk about Core-Training many people immediately default into thinking about Six-Pack Abs. Yet, in reality Core-Training involves so much more and is of huge importance to your health, safety and athletic potential. In this episode, we take an...

Powerful tips and techniques to improve your IQ and memory power. This video on brainpower in Hindi will help you to increase your focus and concentration along with your mind power. This video offers 5 best tips on how to increase your intelligence and remember better. We are sure these tips will help students in study and exams while enabling professionals to perform better and get more success.

https://youtu.be/vplapBskG-M Today Dr. Rutherford will be going over the next segment in our Functional Medicine series discussing Leaky Gut. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. If you are interested in scheduling a consultation with Dr. Rutherford please visit http://PowerHealthConsult.com Hi, this is Dr. Martin Rutherford, clinic director here at Power Health, and we're, continuing our series on functional medicine back to basics; the effort to continue to present to you the public, some data on. Maybe what your visit to a functional medicine practitioner may be, should look like and or and or maybe how you should be getting treated. We are kind of into the area now, where we're talking about you're in the office and you're getting taken care of, and as this is being confirmed that this very moment by my mentors that there Is a hierarchy to care and that's? What I'm trying to present here it's. This is not about throwing spitballs at the wall are looking at some sort of an assessment form and saying you have a hundred different symptoms. Let's drove thirty two different supplements out it that's, not functional medicine. Ok! So last week we did our last at least the last episode we did intestines we did the intestines and the intestines in general, or, as most people know, a significant factor in our health. A growing understanding of the microbiome is is is, is really fueling our ability to to take care of more and more symptoms in a better quicker or more efficient fashion. And so we started off with the intestines in and of themselves and and and how they can affect just so many things we're kind of kind of going to go on to the next aspect of that a classic functional medicine doctor should be. Should be following some sort of an order, this is an assessment form that, probably you can argue, was one of the starts of functional medicine. It has different categories: it's relatively organized in the categories of a relative order of the way you should think of attacking that person's physiology. The person fills it out and it tells you what symptoms they have they have patterns. Should jump off and then you should look at those patterns relative to some sort of an organized thought and then attack in that direction. Last week we did intestines. Then we're, going to kind of continue with intestines. We're gonna do leaky gut okay and we're used to yeah. I don't know I'm, a stickler for language in terms and the matura intestinal permeability, because it's. Not a colloquial term because when you're talking to a medical doctor, some medical doctors, you're talking to serious people. They got like you got that's, a stupid thing. It doesn't exist and that term kind of lends it to that, but it exists and there's. I know there's at least a hundred and twenty-five different research projects on this that have been done. As of a couple of years ago, I don't even know how many there must be now so in so leaky gut is actually starting to find its way into the literature as a term leaky gut, and this is - and this is a kind Of a really significant one, because here's, one of the problems that I've observed - and I and I think I was one of the first functional medicine practitioners in the poll. I think it's. I think it's, legitimate to say that we were doing we're, doing functional medicine when nobody knew what it was and nobody was showing up the classes. And so I've, gotten a chance, an opportunity to to observe how how this has evolved and it hasn't completely evolved the way it was intended that's. Why? I'm. Presenting this series. Functional medicine is not a term. That is something that is, is regulated, so anybody can call themselves a functional medicine practitioner and but it really has a speci...

https://youtu.be/QzfwauL9Z6Y In this episode of Functional Medicine - Back to Basics Dr. Rutherford discusses the good and bad of supplements and what to look for and what to avoid. Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford. I am the clinic director here at Power Health, in Reno, author of power health back to basics and a certified functional medicine practitioner. This is another segment there's, another segment in our functional medicine, back to basics series, and we got a lot of for those of you. Aren't familiar with it. We've, been going through. We've, been going through what classic functional medicine was intended to look like, and we've already been through taking histories and doing exams, and they're, pertinence and so on and so forth. We got a lot of good feedback last week on the gluten and the last two segments have been on diet and specifically on gluten, and so we have gotten a lot of good feedback on it. And so we will continue to do these as though, because they seem to be getting through and and and kind of fulfilling the purpose that that I wanted it to fulfill. So now we're gonna talk about vitamins and supplements. So I'm gonna try to keep this the less than four hours. Okay, because that's about how long I could go on with this. But it's. It'll, be a lot less than four hours. Hopefully it'll, be a lot less than 40 minutes, because I get a patient in about 40 minutes. So, okay, so so supplements again and and many of these supplements you'll, hear me draw from experience and say when I started this and I think in December first I'm, going to be starting my 40th year in practice. So so we've had a little experience who had over 40,000 people come through these clinics. You know in that period of time and just to watch the difference in trends and and it went from Oh supplements and you're. A quack and and that type of stuff too, now supplements every where they're. Actually in this town and I'm sure in your town, there are now doctors more frequently nurse practitioners, physician's. Assistants that are now seem to be agreeing with, and even suggesting supplementation for things like high blood pressure and and high cholesterol and so on and so forth. So that's, quite a switch. That acceptance has been a two-edged sword because supplements are not regulated for the most part and and so creates kind of. Like you know, I mean here in Reno Nevada, which is like used to be the wild wild west. Some degree it still is the wild wild west, but but but but not having the rules not having. The regulation allows for a lot of a lot of things to take place, a lot of creativity and and and a lot of profitability unsub limits that maybe aren't. The best supplements, so we'll, probably be talking about that. In a number of other things, right now, my attention is on supplements. People using the right supplements. People using supplements are going to be effective. I'm. I do a lot of work with people who are not in my city and and who travel to get here and, and sometimes they travel a long distance. Sometimes I mean I have patients from. I had to currently have a patient from Hong Kong. Sometimes it's hard to get our supplements to them, so they start saying, can I get mine? Can I get mine at the local Costco, or can I get mine at the local, Walmart or local tax? They have all these in China, apparently and and that - and that makes it that makes me a little bit. I'm trying to help people to get well and the one thing about drugs. Is there's, a fair consistency in drugs? I'm, not a I'm, not an anti-drug guy person. I'm, not a pro drug guy per se, but there is a consistency with with medications. You know what you get you take it you feel better. You have terrible side effects, you're, sloppy, you take another one. We don't seem to have that agreement in the supplement world. Okay, I cannot tell you the scores and scores and hundreds and hundreds of coming here with bags and bags of s...

? Healthcare today has mostly become a game of Whack-a-Mole where medications or supplements are used to handle symptoms that the patient is having. While this can be good for the short haul it unfortunately does not lend itself to finding out what the cause of the problem was in the first place and working on that to prevent those symptoms from returning or even getting worse over time as the pills stop working. In today's video Dr. Rutherford discusses how properly practiced Functional Medicine is different. Note: The following is the output of a transcription from the video above. Although the transcription is largely accurate, in some cases it is incomplete or inaccurate due to inaudible passages or transcription errors. Hi I'm Dr. Martin Rutherford clinic director of power, health rehab and wellness in Reno, and today we're, going to be talking about whack-a-mole health care versus classic functional medicine procedures. What brought this topic to to the forefront for me has just been the the understanding and that I'm, seeing a different patient population than I saw 12 years ago, I've, been in functional medicine for quite some time. Could I think I could legitimately argue I was in the pole, one of the original functional medicine, practitioners and - and it was quite a different experience back then than it is now treating functional medicine seekers if you will and so basically, every in our clinic, we interview Everybody we interview everybody before we even decide whether that individual would be a qualified patient to go through a functional medicine practice and get a consistently successful result. And then these interviews, things have changed quite a bit. In the day, in the day when we first started out and and in in patients, were just desperate to get better, we pretty much treats chronic pain, chronic conditions back then people came in he wouldn & # 39. To really know much about much of anything when it came to alternative health care. If you said the word gluten to somebody back, then they'd, go gluten. What's that or they'd say or they'd? Go? Oh, you're one of those or something along those lines. Now I think gluten has become more and more widely accepted. You talk to people about diet. At that point in time, people would say diet how's. Food gonna help anything house food's. Gon na change. I'm Emmett Payne. I got paying every joint in my body and I got I got an inflammation and that sounds tough. Today, everybody comes in my office, has already tried five different diets and believes that they're familiar with those diets and believe that, because they tried those diets and they didn't work - that the diet - probably isn -'t Gon na be a part of what's going be helping them, so they're there. There's, just been a significant change again back then, and the day I well, I think I'm gonna go talk to my medical doctor and see if he thinks that I should work with you and today it's, like I already went to my medical doctor and and and my medical doctor, really can't help me and my medical doctor is playing whack-a-mole. My medical doctor was looking at and and had symptoms that people kind of have that down today. My medical doctor is looking at symptoms and they can just give me a pill. And frankly, I usually going to defend the poor medical doctor because they're working with their hands tied behind their back having to work by insurance codes and things of that nature. So so there's, been an evolution of the patient that walks in here some ways. It's a lot easier today and some ways it's, a lot harder, because I used the determine mall. We used it in the intro and and and in the title of this talk and it's kind of like what I'm. Seeing I'm, seeing we've now morphed from the patients who used to come in largely had not gone to alternative practitioners in the day they usually came straight to us because they desperately heard there's, some not Over there,

David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P., is president of The Commonwealth Fund, a national philanthropy engaged in independent research on health and social policy issues. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, with the charge to build an interoperable, private, and secure nationwide health information system and to support the widespread, meaningful use of health IT. Dr. David engages in a thoughtful conversation with Elizabeth Metraux about the past, present, and future of healthcare in America, the inner conflicts that the system is facing and the audacious ideas to fix it.   Key takeaways: [:30] Dr. David’s career briefing. [1:40] What has Dr. David not yet accomplished? [2:30] What drives Dr. David’s mission? [4:55] Healthcare is built around the workforce. [6:56] How did the U.S. get to the current situation of Healthcare? [9:25] Changes are being implemented in the Affordable Care Act. [11:01] The cost of care is not sustainable. [13:58] Work in coverage expansion and delivery system reform. [17:08] Obama’s administration and the opportunity that was given to healthcare. [22:53] Electronic Health Records. [26:06] Is healthcare too big to fail? [28:21] Audacious idea to fix health care: everyone having a digital health advisor. [30:25] Dr. David Blumenthal Foundation celebrates 100 years. [32:45] The delivery system reform.   Mentioned in this episode: Relational Rounds at Primary Care Progress Primary Care Progress on Twitter David Blumenthal on Twitter Commonwealth Fund The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office, David Blumenthal and James Morone.

This month we have a variety of great questions we hope we were able to answer.  The questions are below.What can we do to calm our fight or flight in our brains? I grew up with horrific childhood abuse, as well as a multitude of abusive relationships. So yes, my […]

On the first Tuesday of the month we will be doing a segment to help answer the many questions we receive. If you would like to submit a question please do so here: http://powerhealthtalk.com/contact-us Please enjoy and forward your comments to us here on our website or our Facebook page.  Thank you […]

On the first Tuesday of every month we will be answering some of the many questions we receive. If you would like to submit a question please do so here: http://powerhealthtalk.com/contact-us Questions answered:   Do you ever see patients who experience inner tremors? Can you address what this might be all […]

Starting in 2018 we plan on doing a questions and answers segment at least once a month to help answer the many questions we receive. If you would like to submit a question please do so here: http://powerhealthtalk.com/contact-us Questions answered: Is pernicious anemia autoimmune and can it cause severe pain and […]

Starting in 2018 we plan on doing a questions and answers segment at least once a month to help answer the many questions we receive. If you would like to submit a question please do so here: http://powerhealthtalk.com/contact-us Questions answered: What’s your thought on stress and MS? Small Fiber Neuropathy: What […]

Known as "the man who would cure the world," Paul Farmer works to provide first world health care for third world peoples and co-founded the worldwide organization Partners in Health. Author of "To Repair the World" and "Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor," Farmer was also the subject of Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains.” Dr. Farmer talks here with Dean Nelson, founder of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25515]

Known as "the man who would cure the world," Paul Farmer works to provide first world health care for third world peoples and co-founded the worldwide organization Partners in Health. Author of "To Repair the World" and "Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor," Farmer was also the subject of Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains.” Dr. Farmer talks here with Dean Nelson, founder of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25515]

Known as "the man who would cure the world," Paul Farmer works to provide first world health care for third world peoples and co-founded the worldwide organization Partners in Health. Author of "To Repair the World" and "Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor," Farmer was also the subject of Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains.” Dr. Farmer talks here with Dean Nelson, founder of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25515]

Known as "the man who would cure the world," Paul Farmer works to provide first world health care for third world peoples and co-founded the worldwide organization Partners in Health. Author of "To Repair the World" and "Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor," Farmer was also the subject of Tracy Kidder's "Mountains Beyond Mountains.” Dr. Farmer talks here with Dean Nelson, founder of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University. Series: "Writer's Symposium By The Sea" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 25515]

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James Morone (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is professor and chair of political science at Brown University. Described as a born "color commentator" on religion, culture and American politics, Morone is widely recognized for his outstanding teaching, having been awarded the Hazeltine Citation by students in the Brown University classes of 1993, 1999, 2001, 2007 and 2008 for being the professor that most inspired them. Morone has long been at the forefront of writing on American government, politics and culture. His first book, The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government, was named a “notable book of 1991” by the New York Times and won the Political Science Association’s Kammerer Award for the best book on the United States. His 2003 book, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History, has been featured on C-span, named book of the month by the History News Network, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book, The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office from Roosevelt to Bush (2009, co-written with David Blumenthal, M.D.), returned him to an issue that shaped much of his scholarly work and was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. Morone has written over 150 articles, essays, and book reviews and regularly comments on political issues for shows like The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, CBS, Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood, Fox News, C Span, NPR’s Market Place, Morning Edition, Science Friday and other shows. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books, The American Prospect Magazine, and The New York Times. Morone has been president of the New England Political Science Association and the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. He was distinguished Fulbright lecturer to Japan in 2005, has served on the editorial board of eight scholarly journals (chairing two of them), and has testified before the U.S. Congress numerous times, most recently in January 2009 when he addressed the newly elected members of Congress on health reform. Morone is the only scholar to receive two Senior Investigator Awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Morone grew up in Rio de Janeiro and New York, received his bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago, and continues to examine the sources and dynamics of religion, culture, and identity in American politics in three current book projects, George Washington’s Regret: Timeless Debates that Define America, In Search of American Culture, and Who Are We?.

Dr. Richard Miller interviews James Morone, co-author of the new book, "The Heart of Power: Health & Politics in the Oval Office". This timely and compelling book, subtitled "The 8 Dirty Rotten Secrets of Healthcare Reform," explains how presidential actions ultimately determine either the success or failure of healthcare reform. James Morone is Chairman of the Political Science Department at Brown University. Also participating in the exchange is Jeff Kane, MD, who argues that the current healthcare debate has nothing to do with healthcare. He contends that the debate is all about economics. Dr. Kane is a practicing physician and Director of Psychosocial Education at Sierra Nevada Cancer Center in Grass Valley, California and authors the lively blog Healthcare As Though People Matter.

Every president since Harry Truman has struggled with universal healthcare; the last major victory toward it came over 40 years ago, when Lyndon Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid. Since then, presidents’ efforts either made small advances or suffered overwhelming defeat, as Bill Clinton did. This year, as healthcare reform returns as a number-one issue, James A. Morone, co-author of “The Heart of Power: Health and Politics in the Oval Office,” visited Zócalo to explain universal healthcare reform and how to get it.