In this episode of Radio Rounds, host Avash Kalra speaks with Susan Blasik-Miller, a litigation lawyer who spends a significant amount of her career representing hospitals, physicians, and health care providers as a malpractice defense attorney. Ms. Blasik-Miller discusses the current medical-legal landscape in the U.S. and offers advice regarding malpractice for both physicians and patients.

Host Lakshman Swamy speaks with Dr. Julius Yang, a hospitalist and Medical Director of Inpatient Quality at BIDMC. Dr. Yang was instrumental in winning a 4.9 million dollar Innovation Grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to launch a Post-Acute Care Transitions (PACT) program designed to improve patient outcomes and prevent avoidable cost in the high-risk 30-day period following acute care hospitalization. Dr. Yang discusses the complexity in caring for a patient, especially during the transition between the hospital and the primary care practice on discharge. Most importantly, he talks about how systems-level improvements are all about making care better for individual patients.

Join us as host Lakshman Swamy speaks with Dr. Pete Clardy, Director of Medical Intensive Care at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. He is passionate about medical education and is also the Program Director for the Harvard Combined Program in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. We discuss the career of an intensivist, a physician that works in the Intensive Care Unit, and medical education in such environments. Dr. Clardy also provides a few pointers on succeeding on your ICU rotation! Check out this episode to learn more about this unique and rewarding field in medicine.

Host John Corker sits down with Dr. Marty Makary to discuss his new book, Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won't Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Health Care. Dr. Makary is a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and national leader in the movement for transparency and quality improvement in health care. He discusses his experiences in a broken, sometimes dangerous hospital system, and how patients could make smarter, safer choices regarding their healthcare if they knew as much about their doctors and hospitals as they do restaurants and airlines.

In this episode (#707) of Radio Rounds, host Avash Kalra speaks with Dr. Howard Bauchner, the Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association, one of the world's premier academic publications. Dr. Bauchner discusses his innovative vision for the Journal and his efforts to re-define the publication to appeal not only to medical professionals but to the general public as well.