Wrangling Medicare: A New Vision
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. With around 63 million beneficiaries, Medicare is the single largest provider of health insurance in the U.S. […]
Terror, Joy, Triumph: Learning Resilience as a Pediatric Neurosurgeon
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. Pediatric neurosurgeons manage some of the most complex diseases in children, operating on the delicate and precious […]
Coping With a Deadly Prognosis
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. On New Year’s Eve in 2020, Katie Coleman was diagnosed with metastatic oncocytoma, a type of kidney […]
Mapping the brain stem’s control of eating could lead to better treatments for obesity: An atlas of neuronal circuits could help predict targets for medications to control appetite
Every meal you sit-down-to makes an impression, with foods filed away as something delicious to be sought out again, or to be avoided in disgust if we associate the flavor with gut malaise. How this decision is made turns out to be so fundamental to our wellbeing — determining what foods to seek and avoid […]
From the Edge of Death: A Doctor’s Journey
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. Rana Awdish, MD, was on her last day of critical care medicine training when her life changed […]
What Is the Time Value of Money?
We most often think of money in terms of its monetary value. And this obviously makes sense in a lot of ways. Unfortunately, however, monetary value does not capture the whole picture and can lead to bad decisions and worse outcomes. That is why, especially as physicians, we need to consider the time value of […]
On Facing a Terminal Illness
“The Doctor’s Art” is a weekly podcast that explores what makes medicine meaningful, featuring profiles and stories from clinicians, patients, educators, leaders, and others working in healthcare. Listen and subscribe on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Google, Stitcher, and Podchaser. When actress and playwright Ellen Dunphy — then a robustly healthy 35-year-old — first met co-host Tyler […]
Scientists develop and monitor two approaches to fix blood vessel abnormalities that make tumors difficult to treat: Combining the approaches may be a powerful anti-cancer strategy
Tumors send out signals that impair normal blood flow, which makes them hard to treat with every type of cancer treatment, including radiation and chemo-, targeted and immunotherapy. Impaired blood supply creates an environment low in oxygen levels — hypoxia — that causes the tumors to take on aggressive characteristics and become immuno-suppressed. To address […]
Critical signature sound when rocks crack
Finding the specific sound a rock makes when it cracks and breaks seems impossible when surrounded by other subsurface noises. But Texas A&M University researcher Dr. Siddharth Misra, the Ted H. Smith, Jr. ’75 and Max R. Vordenbaum ’73 DVG Associate Professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, discovered a way to hear […]
15 Life-Saving Items That Nurses Say You Should Keep At Home
Part of what makes medical emergencies so scary is that, by nature, they can happen completely unexpectedly. Staying prepared with a fully-stocked first aid kit, supplemented with other potentially life-saving essentials, can be a great way to manage your anxieties, save you a trip to the emergency room or, at the very least, act fast […]