New job? Congrats! Now go read the fine print in your contract. Carefully. Lawyer Dennis Hursh shares his decades of history and experience negotiating - or re-negotiating - physician contracts.

New job? Congrats! Now go read the fine print in your contract. Carefully. Lawyer Dennis Hursh shares his decades of history and experience negotiating - or re-negotiating - physician contracts.

Legendary investigative journalist and NYT reporter Walt Bogdanich (When McKinsey Comes to Town) joins us to talk about his recent article "How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research" and the broader impacts of what happens when outside financial firms influence internal business operations.

New year, new beginnings. We covered a lot of ground last year and we're going to keep up the pressure and keep fighting the good fight. Wendy and Matt discuss what and who they appreciated about last year's episodes, and what they're looking forward to in 2026.

Eight months ago, we followed along as Prospect Medical shuttered Crozer Health. In this episode, as promised, several of the doctors, nurses, medical assistants, elected officials and public servants we spoke to initially tell us how they have fared since. A few themes emerged: the unexpected domino effects when a hospital closes, the importance of community, trust, and transparency, the mismatch between healthcare executives in pursuit of profit and medical professionals in pursuit of public service (and the moral injury that results), and their relentless commitment to and hope for the community they served.

Was dialysis the canary in medicine's coal mine of corporatization, as neoliberalism took hold in the US? Tom Mueller, journalist and author of How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine, joins us to talk about how dialysis became a "microcosm of American medicine" and what we can do to fix it.

We make a lot of changes that don't make much difference. Why? In this episode, Wendy and Matt borrow the perspective of rancher and regenerative agriculture proponent, Don Campbell, who said, "If you want to make small changes, change the way you do things. If you want to make major changes, change the way you see things". We apply that big picture thinking to solutions-finding in healthcare.

In 2023, 82% of nurses had experienced at least one workplace violence incident, and nearly half were experiencing even more violence. And it's not just nurses. Surgeons, ER docs, primary care physicians and others know violence in healthcare is on the rise. Erin Pastore and Marie Lopresti, two ED nurses in Philadelphia, share their personal experiences with violence in their workplace, and how to restore the balance we all - patients and practitioners, alike - need. Listener discretion advised.

As the former head of the State Health Benefits Program within New Jersey's Department of the Treasury - one of the largest public health plans in the country - Chris Deacon unmasked the machinery of healthcare and didn't like what she saw. Now a nationally recognized voice for health plan transparency and employer empowerment, Chris joins us to talk about her new book "The Great American Healthcare Heist: Why We're Paying More and Getting Less".