In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, about her journalistic investigation of her own illness, trust in health care, and how cultural narratives affect our experiences of illness.

A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301935.