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President Trump is set to talk with oil executives since gas prices are still high and might even go up again. He's also working on a medicine stockpile in case a global conflict cuts off supplies to the U.S. There's even talk that the White House bowling alley could be next on his list of projects. Over in Iran, inflation keeps getting worse, and the economy is taking a hit. Mark talks about a shakeup at the next Met Gala in New York. Fashion designer John Galliano was picked for a big role at the event, but it turns out he's got a history of anti-Semitic comments. The pied-à-terre tax in New York is now facing pushback from both Democrats and Republicans. Abdul El-Sayed's plan for free healthcare is getting a lot of heat, especially since his wife works in healthcare. CNN pollster Harry Enten is earning respect for being upfront about the polls—right now, the Democrats' approval rating is really low. Howard Stern's radio show is now down to just one day a week. Tim Cook stepped down as Apple's CEO yesterday. The Trump administration is bringing Nicki Minaj and Dean Cain on board for a new ‘Shark Tank'-style show. Mark interviews Boston radio host Howie Carr. It's primary day in Massachusetts, and Howie shares what he's seeing with the races. The guys also talk about what former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt might do next, maybe TV? Howie says fuel prices are his biggest worry as the midterms approach. Plus, socialist Dems like Abdul El-Sayed and Mamdani could give AOC a boost in her races. Who's Roy Cohn? He was Trump's lawyer back in the '70s and '80s, and that might explain some of Trump's style. On Monday, there was a tragic stabbing spree in Times Square. The Lindsay Clancy trial is still going, with the jury deliberating. Vladimir Putin says he's backing Iran all the way. Mark interviews John Carney from Breitbart Business News. Job vacancies are up a little. The guys get into what actually makes a strong economy. John and Mark also break down what happens when the Fed raises rates; it's not always a disaster. They wrap up with Trump's meeting with oil execs and what might happen with oil and gas prices.

In 1987, Mary P. Lovato, a member of Kewa Pueblo in New Mexico, was diagnosed with acute leukemia. To receive a bone marrow transplant, she had to travel more than 800 miles from home because specialized cancer care was unavailable through the Indian Health Service. When she returned, she discovered another obstacle: many in her community feared cancer so deeply that they avoided speaking about it altogether.This episode examines how cancer survivorship exposed profound inequities in the American healthcare system. Long before health equity became a national priority, advocates from underserved communities were confronting disparities rooted in geography, poverty, racism, language, underfunded healthcare systems, and historical mistrust of medical institutions. Their work demonstrated that scientific advances alone cannot improve survival if patients cannot reach, afford, or trust the care available to them.The story follows pioneers including Mary P. Lovato, who built the first national Native-led cancer support and education program for Indigenous communities, and Maimah Karmo, founder of the Tigerlily Foundation, whose breast cancer diagnosis inspired a movement to improve early detection, clinical trial participation, and representation for Black women. Their advocacy challenged longstanding barriers to culturally competent care while highlighting persistent inequities in access to screening, fertility preservation, navigation, and innovative treatments.The episode also explores why diversity in clinical research matters. For decades, many cancer clinical trials disproportionately enrolled White patients, limiting both access to promising therapies and the scientific understanding of how treatments perform across different populations. Researchers, patient advocates, and community leaders responded by redesigning outreach, improving patient navigation, reducing logistical barriers, and insisting that affected communities help shape the research itself.Cancer survivorship cannot be measured solely by scientific breakthroughs. It also depends on whether every patient has a meaningful opportunity to benefit from them. The pursuit of health equity remains one of the defining challenges and enduring responsibilities of modern oncology.RELATED LINKSNational Cancer Institute | Cancer Health Disparities⁠Indian Health Service⁠Tigerlily Foundation⁠National Cancer Institute | Cancer Clinical Trials⁠American Indian Cancer Foundation⁠Abramson Cancer Center | University of Pennsylvania⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As the 2026 midterm elections approach, one of the top issues for voters across the country is healthcare, following major cuts last year to Medicaid. California's 22nd congressional district has high Medicaid enrollment…and it's one of the most competitive seats in the country…now that Democrats recently gained a voter advantage there due to redistricting. In a partnership with KFF Health News, KVPR spoke to residents in this district about how healthcare could influence their vote. Reporter: Samantha Rangel, KVPR California lawmakers are set to vote today on changes to what happens AFTER a damaging wildfire is sparked by utility equipment. Reporter: Guy Marzorati, KQED An Imperial County judge appears poised to strike down the county's moratorium on data center development. Reporter: Kori Suzuki, KPBS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this episode, Austin Reeder, MHA, MPH, President, Froedtert Hospital, discusses expanding hospital capacity, improving maternal-fetal care and growing ambulatory services. He also shares his approach to navigating workforce pressures, rising costs, AI and other simultaneous changes facing healthcare leaders.

In this episode, Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, President, University of Nebraska System, discusses workforce development and retention, healthcare headwinds, precision medicine and the growing role of AI in improving care. He also shares his vision for earlier disease detection, expanding access to rural communities and building a culture where employees feel part of something bigger than themselves.

For decades, e-commerce rewarded the biggest brands that could buy their way to the top of search results. AI is changing that. Shopify COO Jess Hertz joins Rapid Response to share what Shopify's data reveals about the agentic shopping revolution in real time, and how the company is building the infrastructure layer that makes products discoverable and purchasable by AI. Plus, why Shopify's engineers can spend freely on AI tokens while the rest of the business world agonizes over ROI, and what it looks like when a company powering over 14% of online shopping decides to win the future or die trying.Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are we chasing a standard of excellence that today's healthcare system can realistically sustain? On this episode of KeyLIME+, Adam speaks with medical education leaders Drs. Farhan Bhanji and Damon Dagnone about the future of medical education and healthcare in Canada. They explore Competence by Design, the tension between certification and licensure, the physician workforce crisis, and the changing role of internationally trained physicians in Canada. As pressures mount on healthcare systems, regulators, and training programs, the conversation explores an important question: how should medical education evolve to meet the needs of learners, physicians, and patients in today's healthcare environment Episode Length:  47:48   Resources to check-out   John Norcini, Irina Grabovsky, Michael A Barone, M Brownell Anderson, Ravi S Pandian, Alex J Mechaber, The Associations Between United States Medical Licensing Examination Performance and Outcomes of Patient Care, Academic Medicine, Volume 99, Issue 3, March 2024, Pages 325–330, https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000005480  Contact us: keylime@royalcollege.ca       Follow: Dr. Adam Szulewski https://x.com/Adam_Szulewski    

Send us Fan MailEPISODE DESCRIPTION - Ready to publishRhode Islanders are sending a blunt message: the healthcare system is not just expensive, it's forcing people to delay care, skip tests, and rethink whether treatment is even worth it. University of Rhode Island sociologist Julie Keller unpacks the new survey data exposing how deep the affordability crisis really goes - and why the numbers are more alarming than the anecdotes.The findings go beyond general frustration. 29% of respondents say they delayed medical care in the last year because of cost, and among those postponing recommended care, cost is the biggest reason. Keller explains why the wording of these questions matters, how the survey captures the difference between general concern and real-world barriers, and why that gap is so consequential for health outcomes and medical debt.We also break down the broader public sentiment shaping Rhode Island right now: 72% worry about healthcare costs 72% also worry about housing costs 93% trust their own doctor Trust drops sharply for institutions like the CDC, FDA, Rhode Island state officials, RFK Jr., and Trump 49% say they use AI for health information, raising new questions about how people search for care and advice Keller also shares what Rhode Islanders say they would support to fix the system, including a URI medical school, loan forgiveness for doctors who stay in the state, and higher Medicaid reimbursements. If you're trying to understand why healthcare keeps rising to the top of Rhode Island's political agenda, or what kinds of solutions actually have public support, this episode gives you the clearest picture yet.Essential listening if you care about healthcare costs, access to care, policy reform, or the real state of public opinion in Rhode Island right now.Support the showFollow Bill on Instagram and YouTube

Ever notice that the trip home often seems shorter than the trip there—even when the distance and travel time are exactly the same? It happens so often that researchers have given it a name: the “return trip effect.” And the explanation reveals something fascinating about how your brain experiences time. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3179583 You're told to “take charge of your healthcare.” But how exactly are you supposed to do that when the doctor is the expert, appointments are short, and navigating the healthcare system can be frustrating and confusing? It turns out there is a lot you can do to get better care. Dr. Lucy McBride explains how to make better use of your doctor, ask the right questions, know when to push for answers, and become a more effective partner in your own healthcare. She is a primary care physician and author of Beyond the Prescription: A Doctor's Guide to Taking Charge of Your Health (https://amzn.to/4hAEoc3). Weather is doing things to you that you probably never realize. Sunshine, rain, heat, cold, wind and even changes in atmospheric pressure can affect how you think, feel, sleep and behave. Why are some people far more sensitive to weather than others? Can certain weather actually make us more aggressive or anxious? And why can a particular kind of day trigger such powerful memories and emotions? Dr. Trevor Harley has spent years studying the surprisingly intimate relationship between weather and the human mind. He is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Dundee and author of Head in the Clouds: How the Weather Affects Our Minds and Mental Health (https://amzn.to/4xN5L7v). Could you tell whether water is hot or cold just by listening to someone pour it? You probably can—even if you've never realized it. Hot and cold water actually sound different, and there is a fascinating reason why. https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/questions/why-does-hot-water-sound-different-cold-water-when-poured PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS MONARCH: Write your own money story with Monarch! Use promo code SYSK at https://Monarch.com to get your 1st year of Monarch Core half off at just $50 AQUATRU: Head to https://AquaTru.com now and get 20% off your purifier using promo code SYSK AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee or your money back! WAYFAIR: Ready to upgrade your home for way less? Head to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://Wayfair.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ right now to shop all things home and get your space ready for less.  QUINCE: Find your next Fall favorites at Quince! Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://Quince.com/sysk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too! DELL: Built for those who want better. The Dell XPS, built for you! SHOPIFY: It's time to turn those "what ifs" into CHA CHING with Shopify Today! Sign up for your $1 per month trail and start selling today at ⁠⁠⁠https://Shopify.com/realm⁠⁠⁠ INDEED: Get a $75 Sponsored Job credit to help get your job the premium status it deserves at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://Indeed.com/PODCAST⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The American healthcare and financial systems can feel deeply broken, but you are not powerless. With healthcare costs skyrocketing and deductibles growing larger every year, many people feel trapped when facing a medical procedure. Clark shares an instructive real-world story from The Washington Post, explaining how price transparency (and lack thereof) impacts your wallet and why price-shopping non-emergency medical procedures is essential for protecting your savings. Clark also addresses the growing wave of financial stress facing millions of households now. As inflation strains budgets and credit card default rates rise, debt collectors are taking consumers to court in record numbers. If you or a loved one are dealing with aggressive debt collectors, Clark walks through your legal rights, how to stop harassing calls, and why getting every agreement in writing is non-negotiable. Plus, Christa shares your #AskClark questions and Clark gives his take. All this and more on the August 31, 2026, episode of The Clark Howard Show. Submit your questions: Ask Clark. Compare Medical Procedure Costs: Segment 1 Ask Clark: Segment 2 Debt Collection Help: Segment 3 Ask Clark: Segment 4 Mentioned on the show: [WPost] His surgery was $23,000. After shopping around, he paid less than $5,000. Americans seeking affordable doctors and medicines abroad — The Conversation Is Medical Tourism Right for You? - Clark Howard 10 Ways To Save Money on Health Care - Clark Howard  Remove my private info from Google Search  /  Results about you Is the Privacy App Permission Slip Worth It? A Review 4 Rules Every Consumer Needs to Know to Fight Back Against Debt Collectors NYT: Debt Collection Suits Rise Sharply. Help for Consumers. How To Send a 'Drop Dead' Letter to a Collection Agency 6 Things To Know Before Contacting the National Foundation for Credit Counseling How To Find and Choose a Financial Advisor - Clark Howard What Is Umbrella Insurance and Do You Need It? - Clark Howard Best Free Password Managers: 10 Top Picks - Clark Howard How To Create and Use Passkeys - Clark Howard Clark.com resources: Episode transcripts Community.Clark.com  /  Ask Clark Clark.com daily money newsletter Consumer Action Center Free Helpline: 636-492-5275 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Health care gets blamed on villains, but the harder truth is that most people are reacting to the incentives right in front of them. From the 2026 Mackinac Policy Conference, we sit down with Matt Elliott, founder of Blue Lake Ideas and former president of Bank of America Michigan, to ask the question that quietly reshapes every other debate: who is the customer in health care?Matt brings a leadership lens he calls the “Power of And” thinking that refuses to collapse decisions into either-or. If Michigan wants a stronger future, we have to execute today and invest for tomorrow. We have to take care of people and still deliver results. That mindset matters when the state is facing what many leaders describe as a “house on fire” moment: slipping educational and economic outcomes, rising cost pressure, and real threats to access, especially for rural hospitals that often serve as the largest employer in town.We also get concrete about health care cost transparency and pricing signals. Patients rarely see the real price of care, there often isn't a usable price sheet, and even providers can be constrained by contracts and regulation. We talk about how benefit design and tax policy shape behavior, why clarity has to come before solutions, and what “winning” should mean if we want a health care system that works for patients and communities.Subscribe, share this conversation with someone who debates health care policy, and leave a review with your answer: who do you think the customer really is?Support the showEngage the conversation on Substack at The Common Bridge!

It's our monthly Digital Health Download, and September's stories all circle the same tension: technology keeps promising to fix healthcare's problems, but just as often it moves them somewhere else, or creates new ones entirely. This week, Halle unpacks a news-heavy month, weighing who actually benefits as markets, algorithms, and AI get closer to our health decisions.We cover:Americans can now bet on clinical trials and FDA regulatory reviews - but do we want that?Meta's massive settlement over harming childrenThe surprising reason AI might be making healthcare more expensive instead of lessA new study on the biggest lever we're not pulling to bend the healthcare cost curveTwo lawsuits rattling a popular wearable and a celebrity-backed mental health startupWhat a widely used drug class reveals about bias in hiring, and the uncomfortable questions that raises⸺

Healthcare doesn’t lack data. The challenge is connecting it. In this episode of Technovation, Mouli Venkatesan, EVP and Chief Information & Technology Officer of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, joins Peter High to discuss how interoperability, AI, and shared technology foundations can help create a more connected healthcare system. Mouli explores how the Blue system balances national scale with local delivery, why longitudinal data matters to value-based care, and how BCBSA approaches AI through mindset, “heart set,” tool set, and skill set. He also explains why responsible AI begins with strong data governance and human involvement in clinical decisions. The conversation also covers AI workforce development, build-buy-partner decisions, process improvement, and leadership through influence across independent organizations. This episode is presented by ElevenLabs — Bringing technology to life. Learn more at elevenlabs.io This episode is also presented by Retool — Build internal software better, with AI. Learn more at retool.com

What would a Libertarian actually do if elected to Congress? Brian Lambert says Washington needs less power, Americans need more freedom, and the government needs to get out of your wallet. Josh Martens sits down with Brian Lambert, a Navy veteran and Libertarian candidate for Florida's 14th Congressional District, to break down his campaign and political philosophy. Lambert explains why he left the Republican Party, why his campaign centers on "your money, your freedom, your vote," and how he approaches federal spending, veterans' care, healthcare, war, surveillance, small business, and taxes. They dig into some of the biggest libertarian fights in American politics: • Cutting federal spending and returning education to local control • Protecting veterans while questioning America's military interventions • Getting government and insurance bureaucracies out of healthcare decisions • Ending warrantless mass surveillance and pushing back on Flock cameras Plus, Lambert explains why constitutional limits should come before political convenience and why reducing the IRS could give Americans more financial freedom. Subscribe or follow Good Morning Liberty, like the show, comment with your biggest disagreement, and share this conversation with someone tired of the two-party system. If you listen on a podcast app, leave us a rating and review.   https://www.brianlambertforcongress.com/   00:00 Meet Brian Lambert 00:45 From the Navy and GOP to Libertarianism 03:30 Your Money, Your Freedom, Your Vote 06:45 $40 Trillion in Debt and Federal Spending 10:45 Veterans, the VA, and Alternative Care 14:15 War, Congress, and the Constitution 19:15 Getting Government Out of Healthcare 24:45 Breaking the Two-Party Mindset 26:30 Flock Cameras and Government Surveillance 29:45 Small Business and Federal Regulation 31:45 The Constitution-First Test 32:00 Taxes, the IRS, and Financial Freedom   LINKS Join GML: https://www.joingml.com GML Bio Link: https://gml.bio.link All GML Links: https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/links Watch All Episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi78svKlBr_8o0dDOX8DxO_Wwxu6WYhhA Watch Host Favorites: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi78svKlBr__Zu40RL7mWxCuOOe54zgy2 Join the Fed Haters Club: https://www.goodmorningliberty.us/fedhatersclub Martens Minute: https://martensminute.podbean.com/ Brian Lambert for Congress: https://brianlambertforcongress.com  

08/30/2026The Healthy Matters PodcastS06_E06 - Budget Matters...A Follow-up!With Special Guest:  Susie Emmert, Director of Advocacy and Public PolicyHennepin Healthcare was in the news cycle quite a bit earlier this year, and for important reasons!  The conversation around resources and how to fund one of Minnesota's most essential healthcare lifelines involved quite a bit of outside-the-box thinking that ultimately resulted in a short-term fix that keeps this essential piece of our healthcare puzzle in place for now.  But where does the legislation ultimately leave us?  What's changed and what stays the same?  And what does the future of this vital state-wide resource look like now?On our next episode, we'll be joined again by Susie Emmert to follow up on our conversation from this spring and to walk us through the ins and outs of this bill, where things are headed from here, and things we all can keep an eye out for to help support this institution in our upcoming elections.Although it seems like the work is never over, it is safe to say, the response from the public, lawmakers (on both sides!), healthcare experts, labor unions and faith groups was one of overwhelming support for the organization.  This bill helps a lot, but there's more work to be done to ensure this cornerstone of the state's healthcare is, in fact, Here for Good!  Join us!Got healthcare questions or ideas for future shows?Email - healthymatters@hcmed.orgCall - 612-873-TALK (8255)Get a preview of upcoming shows on social media and find out more about our show at www.healthymatters.org.

 In this episode, Christopher Carr, Director One of Security Services at Texas Children's, discusses the evolving healthcare security landscape, including workplace violence prevention, behavioral health, employee protection and AI-powered training. He also shares strategies for building strong security programs through investment in people, cross-functional partnerships, data and analytics, and a family-centered approach to pediatric care.

In this episode, Karen Bowling, President and Chief Executive Officer, WVU Medicine Princeton Community Hospital; Executive Vice President, Government Affairs, West Virginia University Health System, discusses expanding specialty care in rural communities through telemedicine, strategic affiliations and workforce development. She also shares her perspective on healthcare advocacy, financial pressures facing rural hospitals and opportunities for growth.

As Sam tries to get back in the swing of things as a podcaster again, the Party Girls team explores some of their favorite topics. Luigi Mangione acted alone, what does that say about our society? Is Medicare for All worth fighting for? As some liberals like to insist, does he actually have anything in common with the alleged Charlie Kirk assassin? Why do leftists project their politics onto the pointedly apolitical Dolly Parton (Rest in Power?) And finally, no PG episode would be complete without Sam rambling about extreme weather and the American Southwest. All this and more on this weeks episode of Party Girls. https://thebaffler.com/latest/goodbye-dolly-sexton SIGN UP NOW at https://patreon.com/partygirls to get all of our bonus content, Discord access, and a shout out on the pod! Follow us on ALL the Socials: Instagram: @party.girls.pod TikTok: @party.girls.pod Twitter: @partygirlspod BlueSky: @partygirls.bsky.social Leave us a nice review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify if you feel so inclined: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/party-girls/id1577239978 https://open.spotify.com/show/71ESqg33NRlEPmDxjbg4rO Executive Producer: Andrew Callaway Producers: Ryan M., Jon B

AI is popping up in many corners of society, but how are doctors using it in their practice? We asked our physician listeners to call in, and many of you did. What we heard mirrored broad trends: that more and more doctors are using AI tools for diagnosis, paperwork, and getting up to speed on patients. But they also have concerns. So how is AI changing medical care? And how is it affecting patients? Joining Host Flora Lichtman to sort fact from hallucination is physician-computer scientist Jonathan Chen, who's studied the accuracy of these models and how healthcare workers use them. Guest: Dr. Jonathan Chen is an associate professor of medicine and director for Medical Education in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University. Transcript will be available after the show airs on sciencefriday.com. Subscribe to this podcast. Follow our show on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Bluesky @scifri and sign up for our newsletters. Got a science question that's keeping you up at night? Call us: 877-472-4374 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Late last year, the federal government announced the Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion initiative looking to improve the health of rural residents and to offset more than $900 billion in reduced Medicaid spending over 10 years from Republicans' sweeping 2025 tax and spending law. This morning, we hear how Louisiana is focusing some of that cash toward tech firms. Also on the show: spending on electronics and Kevin Warsh's inaugural Jackson Hole address.Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace Morning Report is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.

In this episode, Scott Becker argues that universal coverage does not solve supply shortages and can lead wealthier patients to seek care through private providers.

Late last year, the federal government announced the Rural Health Transformation Program, a $50 billion initiative looking to improve the health of rural residents and to offset more than $900 billion in reduced Medicaid spending over 10 years from Republicans' sweeping 2025 tax and spending law. This morning, we hear how Louisiana is focusing some of that cash toward tech firms. Also on the show: spending on electronics and Kevin Warsh's inaugural Jackson Hole address.Every story has an economic angle. Want some in your inbox? Subscribe to our daily or weekly newsletter.Marketplace Morning Report is more than a radio show. Check out our original reporting and financial literacy content at marketplace.org — and consider making an investment in our future.Stories included in this episode:Consumers are finding room for electronics in their budgetsStates bet big on rural health startups, with a Silicon Valley twist

In this episode, Will Landry, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, FMOL Health, discusses expanding Epic through community partnerships, ambient AI for providers and nurses, and optimizing technology amid budget and reimbursement pressures. He also shares his strategy for modernizing IT and using technology to improve efficiency across the health system.

Healthcare can't ask communities to trust systems that haven't earned their trust. In this episode, Harold Phillips, the CEO of NMAC (formerly the National Minority AIDS Council), discusses what HIV reveals about stigma, trust, racial justice, and the communities still being left behind by healthcare. Drawing on his lived experience with HIV and decades of public health leadership, Phillips explores why healthcare must treat the whole person rather than simply the diagnosis. He explains how stigma, misinformation, and mistrust can keep people from accessing care even when effective treatments and prevention tools are available. Phillips also examines the difference between outreach and genuine community partnership, emphasizing the importance of listening to communities and using their lived experiences to shape healthcare systems and policy. Tune in to hear Harold Phillips share what healthcare leaders can learn from communities that have historically been left behind, and how those lessons can help build more equitable, trustworthy systems. IHI Spotlight - Sylvia Trent-Adams: This episode's IHI Spotlight features Sylvia Trent-Adams, President and CEO at the Institute of Healthcare Improvement, who talks about the lessons HIV has taught her about dignity, trust, equity, and person-centered care. Drawing on her experience as a nurse caring for soldiers living with or affected by HIV, she emphasizes that treating a diagnosis and truly seeing a person are not the same thing. She also discusses why healthcare organizations must listen to marginalized communities and act on what they hear, making equity an essential part of quality and safety rather than a separate initiative. About Harold Phillips: Harold J. Phillips is a nationally recognized HIV policy leader and public health strategist with over 30 years of experience advancing equity, access, and innovation in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In 2025, he was appointed CEO of NMAC, where he leads eNorts to center racial justice and community leadership in the national response to HIV. Previously, Phillips served as Director of the White House Office of National AIDS Policy (2021–2024), overseeing the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and shaping federal policy to accelerate progress toward ending the epidemic. He also held senior roles at the Health Resources and Services Administration's HIV/AIDS Bureau, where he managed key programs including Ryan White, AIDS Education and Training Centers, and PEPFAR-funded initiatives. As a Black gay man living with HIV, Phillips brings lived experience and visionary leadership to his work. His career has been defined by a commitment to uplifting marginalized voices, modernizing HIV policy, and building sustainable systems of care. Things You'll Learn: HIV continues to reveal how stigma, misinformation, and mistrust can create barriers to healthcare access. Treating the whole person requires healthcare systems to address the social and personal circumstances that shape health outcomes. Lived experience should inform healthcare policy, system design, and shared decision-making. Genuine community partnership requires ongoing listening, responsiveness, and action, not one-time outreach or consultation. Healthcare organizations can build trust by listening to communities, adapting their services, and creating systems that center historically marginalized populations. Resources: Connect with and follow Harold Phillips on LinkedIn. Follow NMAC on LinkedIn and explore their website!

In this episode, Holly Buckley, Chair of Healthcare at McGuireWoods, discusses the latest healthcare private equity trends, including transaction volume, physician practice investments, AI adoption, state regulations and the outlook for deals and exits. Overview – McGuireWoods Healthcare Growth & Operations Conference 2026. Online registration by Cvent

In 2000, Katie Couric underwent a live colonoscopy on national television following the death of her husband, Jay Monahan, from colorectal cancer at age 42. The broadcast demystified a procedure many Americans feared, led to an estimated 20% increase in colonoscopy screenings, and became one of the clearest examples of how public storytelling can change healthcare behavior.This episode examines how celebrities, journalists, filmmakers, and entertainers helped reshape the public conversation about cancer during a period when survivorship was becoming increasingly visible. As breakthroughs in targeted therapies, immunotherapy, and early detection allowed more people to live beyond cancer, public figures used their platforms to encourage screening, reduce stigma, and accelerate research. Their influence extended far beyond awareness campaigns, helping transform cancer from a private diagnosis into a national public health conversation.Central to this story is Laura Ziskin, the Hollywood producer behind Pretty Woman and the Spider-Man films, whose metastatic breast cancer diagnosis inspired the creation of Stand Up To Cancer. Working alongside Couric and leaders from entertainment, journalism, and biomedical research, Ziskin championed a new funding model that required multidisciplinary scientific collaboration, helping accelerate discoveries that contributed to multiple FDA-approved cancer therapies. The episode also highlights the advocacy of actor Patrick Dempsey, whose family's experience with ovarian cancer led to the creation of the Dempsey Center, expanding support for patients and caregivers beyond medical treatment.The story also asks what celebrity advocacy often leaves unsaid. Financial toxicity, caregiver burden, chronic pain, mental health, and the long-term effects of treatment rarely receive the same attention as dramatic diagnoses or breakthrough cures. As cancer survivorship continues to evolve, the greatest challenge may not be convincing people to care about cancer, but helping them understand what it truly means to live with and beyond it.RELATED LINKSStand Up To Cancer⁠Katie Couric Media⁠Dempsey Center⁠American Association for Cancer Research⁠National Cancer Institute⁠Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Adult Survivorship Program⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Donate to the Institute: https://givenow.nova.edu/assaf-family-and-community-me-cfs-endowed-fund-campaign/?a=1  In today's episode, Makena Thompson speaks with Dr. Deepa Verma, a double board-certified MD in integrative and anti-aging medicine, to examine why our population is sicker than ever despite greater access to healthcare. Dr. Verma argues that what we call healthcare is actually sick care. Rather than teaching people how to live well, the system waits for disease to develop and manages it with pharmaceuticals that treat symptoms rather than causes. She draws on 13 years of integrative practice to explain how the modern food supply, environmental toxins, glyphosate, microplastics, and chemical exposures in the home are driving the rise in autoimmune disease, infertility, hormone disruption, and chronic fatigue. She also addresses why so many patients are told their labs are normal when they clearly are not well, and what a truly preventative model of care would require. If you are tired of being managed and ready to understand the root cause, this episode is your starting point. Tune in to Hope and Help For Fatigue and Chronic Illness. Dr. Deepa Verma is double board certified in family medicine and integrative functional medicine from Rutgers Medical School (formerly known as Robert Wood Johnson Medical School). Dr. Verma completed her family medicine residency at Somerset Medical Center and was elected Chief Resident. After years of searching for deeper fulfillment treating patients traditionally, Dr. Verma changed course. She followed her passion to educate and heal individuals as a whole, rather than just focusing on treating symptoms. This led her to found Synergistiq Integrative Health in 2013. From the beginning, her goal has been to create a practice that could give patients an opportunity for a healthier and happier version of life. She understands frustrated patients who are fed up with traditional medicine.Dr. Verma's training has taught her that in order to find a long-term cure, patients need treatment that addresses the root cause of their symptoms, not just addressing their lab numbers. She is also an accomplished author, blogger, and regular television personality.   Website: https://synergistiqhealth.com/  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drdeepavermamd/?hl=en    Makena Thompson is a Research Program Manager at the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine at Nova Southeastern University.   Haylie Pomroy, Founder and CEO of The Haylie Pomroy Group, is a leading health strategist specializing in metabolism, weight loss, and integrative wellness. With over 25 years of experience, she has worked with top medical institutions and high-profile clients, developing targeted programs and supplements rooted in the "Food is Medicine" philosophy. Inspired by her own autoimmune journey, she combines expertise in nutrition, biochemistry, and patient advocacy to help others reclaim their health. She is a New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet.   Learn more about Haylie Pomroy's approach to wellness through her website: https://hayliepomroy.com   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hayliepomroy  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hayliepomroy  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hayliepomroy/videos  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hayliepomroy/  X: https://x.com/hayliepomroy    Thank you for tuning in to the Hope and Help For Fatigue and Chronic Illness Podcast. Sign up today for our newsletter.

You Can't Pizza Party Your Way Out of Burnout: Moral Injury, Compassion Fatigue, and Treating Healthcare Workers - An Interview with Kimberly Johnson, PhD, LMHCD, and Lucy Li, MD Kimberly Johnson, PhD, and Lucy Li, MD, of the Emotional PPE Project on healthcare worker mental health and moral injury. Curt and Katie talk with Kimberly Johnson, PhD, LMHCD, a counselor educator at Touro University with more than thirty years of clinical experience in trauma, crisis, and disaster mental health, and Lucy Li, MD, a pediatric anesthesiologist at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Both serve on the board of the Emotional PPE Project, a volunteer-run nonprofit reducing the barriers that keep healthcare workers from accessing mental health care. Healthcare workers rarely arrive in therapy looking the way the distress would suggest. They mask, they overcompensate, and they spend session time explaining the job before they get to what the job has done to them. Kimberly describes the trifecta therapists often flatten into ordinary workplace burnout: burnout, compassion fatigue and complex trauma, and moral injury braided together, frequently presenting subclinically. Lucy describes the same terrain from inside medicine, including what shifted for her after her friend and co-resident died by suicide during residency. They also walk through the Emotional PPE Project's directory of volunteer therapists and its ePPE 101 training for mental health professionals who want to work with healthcare workers well. In this episode, we discuss: - Why healthcare workers are a heterogeneous population, not a single clinical profile - How burnout, complex trauma, and moral injury show up together and subclinically - The intake questions that surface occupational risk factors early - Why moral injury sits where occupational, vocational, and personal identity stop aligning - What stigma costs healthcare workers, their patients, and the workforce - How the Emotional PPE Project connects healthcare workers to free, confidential care - Why the same barriers show up for therapists as healthcare providers Timestamps: - 02:38 - What therapists get wrong with healthcare workers - 07:11 - Professional humility and the questions worth asking early - 09:24 - Burnout, trauma, and moral injury as a trifecta - 15:30 - Where moral injury actually lives - 17:43 - Stigma and the fear of seeking care - 22:00 - The second victim effect and being sent home - 25:10 - Beyond pizza parties: what structural support looks like - 33:27 - Inside the Emotional PPE Project and ePPE 101 Guest Bios: Kimberly Johnson, PhD, LMHCD is Director of Special Projects and Assistant Professor in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Touro University, a licensed therapist in New York, a certified Compassion Fatigue Therapist and Educator and Field Traumatologist, and a Diplomate with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. Lucy Li, MD is an attending anesthesiologist in Pediatric Anesthesiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a board member of the Emotional PPE Project. She completed her anesthesiology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was chief resident, and focuses on physician mental health and wellness. Learn more at emotionalppe.org Full show notes and transcript: mtsgpodcast.com Join the Modern Therapist Community Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/mtsgpodcast Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/therapyreimagined Modern Therapist's Survival Guide Creative Credits Voice Over by DW McCann: https://www.facebook.com/McCannDW/ Music by Crystal Grooms Mangano: https://groomsymusic.com/

In this episode, Alan Condon, Editor-in-Chief at Becker's Healthcare, discusses the surge in healthcare mergers, acquisitions, strategic affiliations and joint ventures as health systems respond to financial pressures and upcoming reimbursement changes. He highlights major deals across the country and examines why scale, partnerships and economies of scale are becoming increasingly important for hospitals and health systems.

The economy is strong, prices are still too high, and the job market is sending mixed signals. The Federal Reserve is navigating all of it while fending off the most overt political pressure in its modern history. Austan Goolsbee, President of the Chicago Fed, joins Rapid Response ahead of the Central Bank's highly-watched meeting in Jackson Hole, to give his most candid read on what's actually going on. He explains why tariffs, war in the Middle East, and six years above the 2% inflation target make this the most dangerous inflation environment he's seen, what Kevin Warsh's new leadership means for how the Fed operates, and why he's a "grim optimist" on AI even as the hype keeps outrunning the results. Plus, what business leaders should actually be watching to get ahead of the Fed's next move.Visit the Rapid Response website here: https://www.rapidresponseshow.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Experience Strategy Podcast | theexperiencestrategist.substack.com Part one of a four-part mini-series unpacking the frameworks in Dave Norton's new book, Human Context: How Intelligent Companies Build Customers. The Stupid/Dumb/Smart/Genius framework has been in use with clients for nearly a decade. It was born in a room in Burbank, in real time, when Joe Pine found himself in the back of a client workshop and Dave told the client that Joe would have a new framework for them.  This episode tells that origin story, walks through how the framework works — with examples from glasses to healthcare — and explains why it's never been more relevant than right now. What's in This Episode How the framework was born. Joe and Dave were working with a media company in Burbank. Dave had mapped out consumer insights across a whiteboard — rows, columns, the full picture. Joe, watching from the back of the room, took it as a prompt to build a two-by-two on the spot. The dumb-versus-smart contrast came from the conversation itself: broadcasting is dumb — it sends out a signal with no feedback loop — and the client knew they needed to move toward smart but weren't sure how. From there, the natural extension followed: if dumb has a worse version, it's stupid (intelligence used against the consumer). If smart has a better version, it's genius (intelligence that truly knows and serves the individual). The framework has been a core part of Dave and Joe's client work ever since, and it's now a central chapter in Human Context. What each level actually means: Dumb — no context is being collected or used. Not a pejorative. A pair of glasses that helps you see is dumb. A family doctor who knows your history and gives good care is practicing dumb medicine. The product or service does exactly what it's supposed to do, without any data layer. There will always be a market for dumb — and increasingly, it may feel like a relief. Smart — an iterative sense-and-respond loop. The system collects some data and adjusts. Your streaming service tracking what you watch and making recommendations is smart. Glasses with an audio component connected to your phone are smart. Genius — anticipatory, fully contextual, deeply personalized support. The system knows your history, your situation, your mode, and acts on your behalf before you have to ask. Dave uses the example of a health AI that knows your supplements, your medical history, and the fact that you're going golfing today — and surfaces exactly what you need to know, without a doctor's visit. Meta smart glasses are a current candidate, though the jury's still out. Stupid — intelligence used adversarially against the consumer. Getting in the way of what someone is trying to do. Collecting and deploying data in ways that feel invasive or serve the platform instead of the person. Google Glass — where users were famously called "Glassholes" — is the canonical example. Joe's live case study: Amazon Prime serving him ads for Lioness every single episode, for a show he's already watched in full. That's not smart personalization. That's stupid. The same technology, all four levels at once. The glasses example makes the framework concrete: regular glasses are dumb (and excellent at it). Hearing-aid glasses or phone-connected frames are smart. Meta smart glasses are approaching genius. Google Glass was stupid. One product category, four distinct orientations — and a viable business model for at least three of them. Healthcare is the most important application. The dumb version: fill out the same form you filled out last time, see the doctor, get the prescription. Not bad care — just no data layer. The critical gap Joe identifies: no one has the full picture of what you're taking. Your GP, your specialist, your rheumatologist — each knows their piece. Nobody has the whole context, including your supplements, which means drug interactions go undetected. The genius version: a health AI with your complete medical history, supplement stack, and daily context — flagging what you need to pay attention to before you even call the office, with the doctor as a periodic checkpoint rather than the first point of contact. Consumer expectations will catch up to this. When they do, dumb healthcare won't feel bad — it'll feel retro. The consumer's rising expectations change the baseline. As genius becomes standard, what felt cutting-edge becomes expected, and what was once acceptable starts to feel quaint. Dave's point: companies need to be building toward genius now, because the window in which it's a differentiator is shorter than it looks. This Is Part One of Four The next three mini-episodes unpack the remaining frameworks from Human Context: Part 2: Situational Markets Part 3: Modes Part 4: Time Value Get the Book Human Context: How Intelligent Companies Build Customers by Dave Norton is available now on Amazon (Kindle and print) and on Dave's Substack. The ten industry workbooks — showing how each framework applies to your specific category — are available alongside the book. Questions for the hosts? Reply to any episode email or find us at theexperiencestrategist.substack.com.

What happens when healthcare stops treating people like people? Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle are joined by nurse and nurse educator Stacy Gilson to discuss nursing as a vocation, the challenges facing healthcare workers today, and the importance of seeing the person behind the patient. They explore moral distress, the dehumanization of healthcare, COVID-19, pharmaceuticals, and how Catholics can bring compassion, truth, and the works of mercy into the medical field. We want to hear from you! Email us at eksb@ascensionpress.com with your questions/comments Don't forget to text “EKSB” to 33-777 to get the shownotes right to your inbox! You can also find the full shownotes at www.ascensionpress.com/EveryKneeShallBow

Could allowing patients to choose their own appointment times help reduce missed visits and shorten NHS waiting lists? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, I speak with Alison MacDonald, European Lead and Senior Vice President at Nordic Global. Alison brings an unusual combination of clinical and technology experience as a registered nurse who moved into digital health over 15 years ago. Her career began in community nursing, where she was asked to lead an electronic health record project because colleagues thought she was good with computers. What initially appeared to be a simple exercise in converting paper forms into digital records encouraged her to question whether healthcare could redesign the process rather than copy it onto a screen. We discuss Nordic's work with Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on patient self-scheduling and automated earlier appointment offers. Before the program, missed outpatient appointments were removing valuable clinical capacity while administrative teams spent time calling patients and rearranging bookings. Cambridge introduced self-scheduling through Epic MyChart, allowing patients to select appointment times through the patient portal. Alison says the DNA rate fell from 5% to 2.2% during the program. According to the supplied results, over 20,000 patients successfully scheduled their own appointments and over 3,000 accepted offers to attend earlier when cancellations created availability. Patients moved appointments forward by an average of 16 days. Forty percent of accepted earlier appointments occurred within seven days of the offer, while 7% took place on the same or following day. Administrative teams also saved an estimated ten minutes for every self-booked appointment. Alison explains why patient control can improve attendance. People can choose times that work around employment, caring responsibilities, travel, and family life instead of receiving a fixed appointment through a letter or telephone call. Patients can also cancel or reschedule without waiting for somebody to answer the phone. The operational lesson goes beyond appointment booking. Healthcare systems may be able to recover existing capacity by examining missed appointments, theater scheduling, waiting list processes, pre-visit questionnaires, and patient communications before concluding that every problem requires additional staff or facilities. We also discuss where AI is producing practical results in healthcare. Alison points to medical imaging, emergency department triage, waiting list management, clinical documentation, and workforce deployment. She warns against discussing AI as one generic solution because each application requires a defined use case, suitable data, workable processes, governance, and staff adoption. Ambient clinical documentation offers one example. An AI scribe can record a consultation, prepare a structured note, and pass it to the clinician for review and correction. Alison cites an NHS evaluation reporting a 23.5% increase in direct patient interaction time and an 8.2% reduction in appointment length. Interoperability remains another major challenge. Healthcare journeys cross hospitals, primary care, community services, and specialist providers that may use different systems or a mixture of electronic and paper records. Even basic differences, such as one organization measuring pain on a five-point scale and another using ten points, can prevent reliable comparison. Alison recommends agreeing on common data standards, defining the minimum patient information required during care transitions, including interoperability requirements in procurement, and avoiding bespoke integrations that make future information sharing harder. Digital access also requires balance. Online services can improve convenience, but healthcare providers must retain appropriate alternatives for patients who lack digital skills, connectivity, confidence, or access. Could your healthcare organization improve patient access and staff capacity by redesigning one familiar process before purchasing another large technology platform? Listen to the episode and share your thoughts with me.

In this episode, Laura Dyrda, Vice President, Editor-in-Chief, Becker's Healthcare, discusses the leadership strategies health systems need to navigate workforce strain, burnout and talent development. She also explores the opportunities and risks surrounding AI adoption, including governance, reskilling and using technology to improve decision-making and care delivery.

Pew Research Center published the first clean count of how much of the internet is now written with AI. Roughly one page in ten shows significant signs of it. Filter to pages published since ChatGPT launched and it climbs past a third. Chris Boyer and Reed Smith spend the first half of the episode on what that measurement actually captures. Pew names four markers that have climbed since 2023: em dashes, Oxford commas, a vocabulary that includes delve, testament, tapestry and enhance, and the construction where a sentence tells you a thing is not just one thing but another. Chris walks through the tells Pew did not count, which turn out to be the more useful ones for anybody responsible for a website. The paragraph that ends by restating itself. Every paragraph running the same length. Content so generic it could belong to any health system in the country, because the model has no lived experience to draw on and never will. Reed pushes back in the direction the argument needs. Patients have been navigating vague human-written hospital pages for fifteen years. The model did not invent that problem. It removed the barrier holding the volume down, the way digital cameras ended the discipline of thirty-six exposures. Chris names where that leads: everything converging toward the middle, because averaging is how the models were built. The second half is for people who own content. Google Search Central says generative AI is useful for research and for adding structure to original content, and that using it to generate many pages without adding value may violate the scaled content abuse policy. Google publishes no threshold. No word count, no acceptable percentage, no safe number of pages. Chris and Reed get specific about where AI earns its place in content production and where it costs more than it saves, then land on the trap waiting at the end of it, which is teams running detection scores and editing toward a machine instead of toward a patient. Lacey Reichwald of AHA Media Group closes the episode with the finding that reframes the conversation. Content creation is the most popular use of AI in marketing departments and it is not where the efficiency lives. She has surveyed health system marketing teams for years, and her argument is that organizations keep backing a process into a tool rather than choosing a tool for a process. She also makes the case for putting the AI skeptics on the working group on purpose. If your content team is measured on pages published, you have already told them which of these two halves matters. Healthcare's Long Walk Toward the Patient, the free eBook marking 500 episodes: https://www.touchpointpodcastbook.com Pew Research Center, How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI?, August 20 2026. Roughly 490,000 English-language pages from Common Crawl going back to 2021, scored with Open Pangram: https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/ Google Search Central, Guidance on generative AI content, including the scaled content abuse spam policy introduced in the March 2024 spam update: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/using-gen-ai-content Google Search Central, Spam policies for Google web search, scaled content abuse definition: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies Open Pangram, the open-weight detection model Pew used, from Pangram Labs: https://www.pangram.com/ LinkedIn "Seems like AI slop" reporting button, launched end of July 2026. Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan reported more than one million uses in the first weeks and roughly 40 percent fewer views on flagged posts: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/30/linkedin-adds-a-button-to-report-ai-generated-slop/ Social Media Today, LinkedIn says 1M people have reported AI slop, August 20 2026: https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-says-1m-people-have-reported-ai-slop/828465/ Harvard Business Review, AI-Generated "Workslop" Is Destroying Productivity, September 2025. BetterUp Labs with the Stanford Social Media Lab, 1,150 full-time US desk workers. BetterUp is a commercial platform and the figures are self-reported: https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity Harvard Business Review, June 2026 follow-on from Matthias Holweg and Thomas Davenport extending the argument into organizational knowledge decay AHA Media Group: https://ahamediagroup.com/ Lacey Reichwald on LinkedIn, where she publishes her tool tip newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laceyreichwald/ TP500, "Healthcare's Long Walk Toward the Patient," where the hosts describe AI drafts of the book getting smoother and less true at the same time Reed Smith on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/reedtsmith/ Chris Boyer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisboyer/ Chris Boyer website: http://www.christopherboyer.com/ Chris Boyer on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/chrisboyer.bsky.social Reed Smith on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/reedsmith.bsky.social Recommendations from this episode: Chris: Effin' Birds, the daily comic by Aaron Reynolds pairing Audubon-style bird illustrations with profane captions, plus the merchandise and playing card decks. 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In this episode of Edge Perspectives, host Tori Richie is joined by Strategy Intelligence expert Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, to unpack the shifting children's healthcare landscape. Drawing on insights from the children's landscape panel at the recent Vizient Executive Strategy Summit, they explore declining pediatric inpatient volumes, rising patient acuity, and the far-reaching effects of birth rate declines and rural access gaps. The conversation also confronts pressing challenges from eroding public trust to provider burnout, offering pediatric leaders a data-driven roadmap for planning in an increasingly complex environment.   Note to our listeners: Sg2 Perspectives was recently renamed Edge Perspectives. Same great hosts, same great content, expanding to cover data-driven market intelligence, quality and operations insights from health care provider leaders. There is no action needed for you to keep this podcast in your subscriptions and feeds. But you will see a new logo and a new name. We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. Contact the hosts with your comments or episode ideas or visit The Leading Edge by Vizient on LinkedIn.

In this episode of American Potential, host David From sits down with Marine Corps veteran Adam Jahnke, Strategic Director for Concerned Veterans for America in South Carolina, to discuss the Taking Care of American Veterans Act and what it could mean for veterans and their families. Adam breaks down several major reforms included in the legislation, including the Major Richard Star Act, which would address retirement benefits for combat-wounded veterans; the Veterans Access Act, which would expand veterans' ability to choose health care providers outside the VA; and the Love Lives On Act, which would protect benefits for surviving military spouses who choose to remarry. Drawing from his own experience as a Purple Heart recipient and former VA clinical social worker, Adam also discusses the problems veterans continue to face navigating the VA system and why greater choice could lead to better health outcomes. The conversation also tackles one of the biggest debates surrounding the legislation: how to deliver meaningful new benefits and health care reforms while being responsible with taxpayer dollars. Adam explains why he believes modernizing the VA system and prioritizing resources for critically injured veterans and their families can accomplish both.

Healthcare has traditionally focused on treating problems after they arise. Keith Bozeman, the founder of MEDgevity, believes the model is shifting toward something more proactive: helping people understand, monitor, and improve their health before problems become more serious. In this episode, we sit down with Keith to explore the growing field of longevity medicine and the movement toward more personalized, data-driven healthcare. Founded from Keith's own experience as a patient, MEDgevity was created around the idea that people need more than a doctor they see when they're sick — they need a team helping them stay healthy in the first place… Hit play to learn about: How longevity medicine is changing the traditional healthcare model. The importance of preventive and proactive healthcare. Why personalized health requires more than a single medical perspective. The roles of physicians, registered dietitians, and exercise scientists. How diagnostics such as bloodwork, DEXA scans, and genetic testing can inform personalized care. As healthcare continues moving toward prevention, personalization, and continuous health management, the boundaries between medicine, fitness, nutrition, and wellness are becoming increasingly blurred. Keith is here to share his perspective on where this evolution is heading and what a more proactive approach to healthcare could look like. Connect with Keith: MEDgevity LinkedIn

As I've talked about in past episodes about perimenopause and menopause (Episodes 924, 954, and 968), the transition from perimenopause to menopause took me down - HARD. Since navigating this journey myself, I've become hyperaware as clients start to share common difficulties at work that might also be connected to menopause (poor focus, forgetfulness, irritability, lack of patience, chronic fatigue, feeling “off,” feeling irrational (and maybe irate) for no particular reason, and more.  Perimenopause and menopause can affect far more than how you feel physically. Changes in sleep, focus, memory, anxiety, and energy can influence how you communicate, make decisions, handle pressure, and show up in high-visibility leadership moments. For women who have always been known as highly capable, these changes can be unsettling. I've noticed that it's pretty common that we clock this as evidence that we are losing our competence, confidence, or leadership edge - which could not be farther from the truth.  It's time to clear this up! In this episode, I'm exploring five specific ways perimenopause and menopause can affect how women lead. I'll talk about changes in access to executive functioning skills, shaken confidence in high-stakes situations, a reduced tolerance for dysfunctional workplace norms, the invisible workload of privately managing a major physical transition, and the need to redefine sustainable leadership.  If you're navigating this transition and questioning your confidence, capacity, or next chapter, individual executive coaching can help you distinguish between what may be changing physically and what remains true about your experience, expertise, and leadership. Together, we can strengthen your boundaries, communication, decision-making, and leadership practices so you can continue growing without sacrificing your well-being. Coaching can complement appropriate medical care, but it does not replace evaluation or treatment from a qualified Healthcare professional. If I can support you during this season, please reach out!  Links Mentioned: [2 Spots Left] Join my Aligned Leadership Incubator: saradean.com/aligned Hire Sara to speak: saradean.com/speaking Coach with Sara: https://saradean.com/executive-coaching-services Connect with Sara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saradeanspeaks Watch Shameless Leadership episodes on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@saradeanspeaks Thank you to our sponsor, Ironwall. Stop online threats before they become real-world attacks. Visit ironwall.com/SHAMELESS and request a free Risk Assessment to see exactly how exposed your executives are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 2006, a landmark report titled Closing the Gap: Research and Care Imperatives for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer confirmed what young survivors had been saying for years. While survival rates for children and older adults had steadily improved, adolescents and young adults had experienced decades of stalled progress. They had become cancer's lost generation.This episode explores how young adult survivors transformed their shared isolation into one of the most influential grassroots movements in cancer advocacy. Diagnosed during the years typically devoted to education, careers, relationships, and starting families, patients between the ages of 15 and 39 confronted challenges that extended far beyond treatment. Fertility preservation, sexual health, employment, financial toxicity, insurance, and long-term quality of life were rarely discussed in oncology clinics, leaving many to navigate survivorship alone.The episode follows advocates including Tamika Felder, Lindsay Avner, Heidi Adams, Doug Ulman, and Dr. Archie Bleyer, whose research and advocacy fundamentally changed how medicine understands adolescent and young adult cancer. Through organizations including Planet Cancer, Fertile Hope, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and later Stupid Cancer, survivors built online communities, educational resources, conferences, and national partnerships that challenged long-standing assumptions about cancer care. Their work helped establish fertility preservation as a standard discussion before treatment, expanded research dedicated to adolescent and young adult oncology, and elevated quality of life as a critical clinical outcome alongside survival.The movement also demonstrated the power of lived experience to reshape medicine. Survivors became researchers, educators, nonprofit founders, and policy advocates, insisting that cancer care account not only for years of life saved, but for the lives patients hoped to build afterward.What began as a search for peers evolved into a national movement that permanently transformed adolescent and young adult oncology. Today, dedicated research programs, clinical fellowships, survivorship resources, and patient advocacy organizations continue to build on the foundation these young cancer mavericks created.RELATED LINKSNational Cancer Institute | Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Program⁠Closing the Gap: Research and Care Imperatives for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer⁠American Society of Clinical Oncology | Fertility Preservation Guidelines⁠Stupid Cancer⁠Livestrong Foundation⁠Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology⁠FEEDBACKLike this episode? Rate and review The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship on your favorite podcast platform. For more information, visit CancerMavericks.com. Please send any questions to podcasts@matthewzachary.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

TribCast is joined by state Sen. César Blanco and politics reporter Alejandro Serrano to discuss the growing bipartisan outrage over building border barriers in Texas' largest national park.

What if healthcare wasn't just about treating disease—but helping people become the strongest, healthiest, most vibrant version of themselves?In this fascinating and forward-thinking episode, I sit down with John Goldman, Human Performance Advocate, visionary in Precision Medicine, and Founder & CEO of Rebel Health Alliance.John shares why he rebelled against the traditional healthcare system and created a revolutionary parallel healthcare model focused on prevention, optimization, and coordinated personalized care. Instead of waiting until people get sick, Rebel Health Alliance is designed to help individuals proactively improve their health, energy, resilience, and quality of life through data-driven, highly personalized support.We explore how modern lifestyles are quietly making many people sick and overweight—and why small daily habits, consistency, structure, and proactive health choices can dramatically transform our future.John explains how Rebel Health Alliance combines cutting-edge diagnostic technology with a carefully curated team of experts—including doctors, strength coaches, dieticians, and epigenetic counselors—all coordinated around the individual. Through virtual care, members gain convenient access to personalized support through text, voice, and video while keeping costs more affordable than traditional healthcare models.One of the most inspiring moments in the conversation is when John shares his personal goal of becoming a “bad ass grandpa”—living a long, healthy, energetic life filled with vitality and purpose. His mission is not simply helping people avoid illness, but helping them truly thrive.We also discuss:Why prevention matters more than waiting for diseaseThe limitations of insurance-based healthcareThe importance of discipline and daily habitsRebuilding energy, focus, and resiliencePrecision medicine and personalized careThe role of accountability and support in long-term transformationCost-sharing options for unexpected medical emergenciesWhy health optimization should feel personal and human—not transactionalJohn's passion for empowering people to take ownership of their health is contagious, and this episode offers hope for anyone searching for a more proactive and personalized approach to wellness.You can learn more about John and Rebel Health Alliance at: Rebel Health Alliance WebsiteConnect with John on social media:Twitter/X @JohnGoldmanInstagramLinkedInIf you enjoyed this episode, please share it with someone who is ready to take a proactive approach to their health and future.Listen, Share, and SupportIf this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who may need hope today.Be sure to subscribe, leave a rating and review, and help us spread more healing and inspiration to the world.Free Resource for HealingIf you're ready to release stress, calm your mind, and begin healing from within, visit:

We hear from NASA astronaut Mike Fincke who is retiring after 30 years. Plus, we'll speak with UCF's Dr. Manny Urquieta about the efforts to solve medical problems in space, from low-Earth orbit, the moon and Mars.

With the ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and fuel prices still elevated, few auto executives are feeling the pressure more acutely than Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley. He joins Rapid Response to give a candid account of what the turmoil means for the auto industry, and for an iconic American brand navigating one of the most turbulent moments in its history. Farley gets frank about the China threat reshaping the global auto business, and his frustration with Ford's own ingenuity. Plus, why Ford is back in Formula One, and why Farley sees a storm gathering in the so-called "essential economy". This episode originally aired on Rapid Response in April 2026.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Healthcare in the United States has a long, complex history. Join me as I sit down with John McDonough, a Harvard professor and healthcare policy expert, to explore the history of the U.S. healthcare system, its intersection with neoliberalism, and potential paths forward. To learn more about this history, be sure to check out McDonough's latest book, America's Wrong Turn. Learn more about John McDonough's scholarship and research here. Save 30% with code HTWN at Johns Hopkins University Press here. Support the show

Jeff Bliss, Wildfire Report #2: The wildfire threatening Reno, Nevada—a city near the California border heavily reliant on tourism and healthcare—has exploded to nearly 100,000 acres after strong afternoon winds breached a 97% containment line. Sparked initially by a motorcycle, the blaze has forced the mandatory evacuation of approximately 42,000 residents, with official estimates warning that up to 90,000 people may eventually need to flee. Heavy winds are fueling this early "dirty August" fire season by channeling oxygen into mountain draws and canyons amid extremely dry conditions. The massive displacement has prompted strict police instructions for residents to utilize regional drop-off centers for pets and livestock rather than standard human evacuation shelters, causing logistical challenges for local horse and cattle ranches. Firefighters continue to battle the unpredictable flames, emphasizing the critical importance of keeping roadways clear so emergency crews can safely navigate the fire zone and quickly escape shifting winds. (1)

Daisy Wolf and Eva Steinman are joined by Engy Ziedan, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Protege, to discuss why medical AI has a measurement problem, and why scoring well on a benchmark doesn't necessarily mean a model is ready for the hospital. Engy explains why healthcare AI needs independent evaluations that go beyond static exams and measure how models actually perform in real-world clinical workflows. They explore the risks of subtle bias and misalignment, why the same model can rank differently depending on how it's prompted or tested, and what happens as AI becomes more personalized and changes faster than traditional healthcare quality systems can keep up. The conversation also gets into Protege's role as an independent evaluator, how contaminated training data can undermine benchmarks, and why the future of medical AI may require continuous monitoring rather than occasional testing.   Resources: Read our insights piece: https://www.a16z.news/p/the-oracle-problem-an-invisible-bottleneck Follow Engy Ziedan on X: https://x.com/engyziedan Follow Daisy Wolf on X: https://x.com/daisydwolf Follow Eva Steinman on X: https://x.com/evajsteinman Stay Updated:Find a16z on YouTube: YouTubeFind a16z on XFind a16z on LinkedInListen to the a16z Show on SpotifyListen to the a16z Show on Apple PodcastsFollow our host: https://twitter.com/eriktorenberg Please note that the content here is for informational purposes only; should NOT be taken as legal, business, tax, or investment advice or be used to evaluate any investment or security; and is not directed at any investors or potential investors in any a16z fund. a16z and its affiliates may maintain investments in the companies discussed. For more details please see a16z.com/disclosures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Jenifer Lockwood became a surgical nurse in Florida, grew up watching her mother struggle with addiction, developed her own health complications that introduced her to prescription pills, and eventually built a scheme at her job calling in fraudulent prescriptions to pharmacies to feed the addiction before law enforcement set her up at a pharmacy and arrested her — producing a 15 year Florida state prison sentence that she served 13 years of before sobriety, a paralegal career built inside those walls, and a complete life transformation gave everything that addiction cost her a completely different second chapter. _____________________________________________ #PrisonStories #PrisonLife #florida #nurse #truecrimestory _____________________________________________ Thank you to HUNGRYROOT, PRIZEPICKS & AG1 for sponsoring this episode: Hungryroot: Explore my Hungryroot Digital Cookbook "The Commissary Upgrade" at https://hungryroot.com/LOCKEDIN _____________________________________________  PrizePicks: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/IANBICK and use code IANBICK and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup! _____________________________________________ AG1: For a limited time, save 20% on your first subscription order of AG1 Next Gen or AG1 Pro at https://drinkag1.com/lockedin _____________________________________________ Connect with Jenifer Lockwood: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeniferlockwood_postconviction/ Website:https://postconvictionalliance.org/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAcGRvZgJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA85MzY2MTk3NDMzOTI0NTkAAadFH6OUvd0oYsZ49876ZgUNamkrtoguEvoHhTss8b8Eae0YjSpPFNXIEHSGUw_aem_zplLQ5f36CmzUcciKJ03Vw _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick:  https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Surgical Nurse's Journey 00:28 Growing Up in Pensacola 02:22 Discovering Biological Father 05:52 Influence of Medical Family 09:15 Early Marriage and Nursing 12:04 Life as a Surgical Nurse 14:41 Sponsor Break 15:14 Traumatic OR Stories 20:36 Addiction Begins 24:47 Mother's Role in Addiction 27:20 Silent Struggles in Healthcare 30:40 Prescription Ends, Desperation 35:20 Arrested in Pharmacy 38:48 Drug Trafficking Charge 41:02 Pharmacy Verification Process 43:36 Bond and Legal Threats 48:39 Out on Bond, Terminated 50:05 Bond Revoked and Withdrawal 52:27 Firing Lawyer, Public Defender 55:00 County Jail Experience 57:38 Sponsor Break 58:47 Legal Process and Plea Deal 01:03:58 Understanding Gain Time 01:05:18 Marriage and New Relationship 01:09:10 Motherhood from Prison 01:13:26 First Day of Prison 01:19:29 Fitting in at Gatson 01:23:31 Becoming a Law Clerk 01:29:51 Prison Shows and Talents 01:31:04 Types of Cases Helped 01:32:32 Sobriety and Self-Discovery 01:35:35 Using Nursing Skills in Prison 01:38:49 Financial Support Inside 01:39:55 Mother's Sobriety 01:40:06 Questioning Sentencing Length 01:42:50 Refusing Cases and Prejudice 01:48:53 Comparing Sentences 01:50:15 Lessons from Encounters 01:53:42 Approaching Release Date 01:55:59 Release and Reuniting with Kids 02:03:36 Josh's Anger and Healing 02:05:30 Current Work and Advocacy 02:08:13 Feeling the Lost Years 02:09:25 Advice to Past Self _____________________________________________ To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/LockedInWithIanBicka