Mental illness or a gift? We talk to Caroline Mazel-Carlton, who gave up antipsychotic meds to live with her voices. She’s among those transforming understanding of voice-hearers & their experiences.

Monkeypox! What we know. What we need to know. 

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Despite substantial efforts, racial and ethnic disparities widen in treatment of substance use disorders.

A discussion of the accepted standard of care when assessing and treating pediatric patients whose gender expression is different from what was assigned at birth. In addition to clinicians and  public health experts, we hear from parents of trans+ kids, others who love them, and trans+ kids themselves.

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Does Other Work Experience Make A Difference?

A small number of first year medical students each year are significantly older than the norm. They've come to medicine as a second or sometimes third career. Do those other work experiences make a difference in how they make their way through their training and, more importantly perhaps, do they make a difference in how the individuals practices medicine?

Seán talks with four physicians who began their training later in life. They reflect on how it has had an impact on how they now practice medicine.

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In this episode of Hear Me Now, we discuss the therapeutic use of psychedelics. 

Making palliative care available everywhere it's needed. 

Bertalan Meskó, M.D., Ph.D., joins us from Budapest. The days of medical robots, scanners, and bots are upon us — but do not fear! — these tools of digital health may be exactly what the doctor ordered to regain the personalism that's at the heart of caring.

Ukraine's fight unites a global humanitarian response. In this episode, using a lens of whole person care, we talk with people reaching out to others in wartime, making connections, and countering the darkness with (in the words of W.H. Auden) "ironic points of light."

For millions of Americans, taking care of a loved one is a way of life. This "unofficial" family caregiving is hard work that often falls to an elderly spouse, or to adult children, or to an ad hoc network of friends & family.