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Chris Deacon on Why We’re Paying More and Getting Less

Dr. Carlos Cardenas knows rock n' roll (and gastroenterology). A practicing physician in the Rio Grande Valley, Dr. Cardenas has been playing music for decades as a balm for his heart and soul, and as it turns out, for his patients.  In the words of Dr. Cardenas, when it comes to healing people, "music is at the core of it all".

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Music and Medicine

Dr. Carlos Cardenas knows rock n' roll (and gastroenterology). A practicing physician in the Rio Grande Valley, Dr. Cardenas has been playing music for decades as a balm for his heart and soul, and as it turns out, for his patients.  In the words of Dr. Cardenas, when it comes to healing people, "music is at the core of it all".

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“The Perfect Tuba”

You read that correctly.  Sometimes we have to look outside of medicine to be reminded why we love it so much. National Book Critics Circle Award-winning journalist Sam Quinones joins us to talk about "The Perfect Tuba", his new book about people creating something bigger than themselves, hard work, practice, dedication, and community.  Sound familiar?

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A New Gilded Age?

Are we living in The Gilded Age of medicine? So many of the challenges we face in healthcare today are rooted in the motivations of the people holding the purse strings, and unfortunately for us (and our patients) those motivations aren't always aligned with the Hippocratic Oath.  Wendy and Matt dig into the history of corporate greed in this country, and how that history may be repeating itself.

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“The Pitt”: Behind the Scenes with Jacob Lentz, MD

Few medical dramas have resonated as deeply with physicians as HBO's The Pitt.  Emergency physician Dr. Jacob Lentz, a medical consultant on the series, takes us behind the scenes of the critically acclaimed show and explains how - and why - The Pitt gets ER medicine so right.

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“Not Everything That Can Be Counted Counts”

Healthcare is awash in data. A typical hospital generates 50 petabytes - a million gigabytes - of it each year. But what are we measuring, exactly? Where does that data go? Why is most of it wasted? And does what we're measuring really need to be measured? Wendy and Matt talk about modern medicine's growing obsession with big data, how data drives social behavior, and the questions we all must ask before consenting to more data gathering - from our patients or ourselves.

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“And then something changed . . .”

For over twenty years,  Dr. Jeff Goldstein was part of a successful, thriving cardiology practice in central Illinois.  And then he wasn't.  Dr. Goldstein and his wife, Dr. Kemia Sarraf, join us to share their personal story of how a change in the structure of his practice led to him feeling blocked at every turn, overworked, and underappreciated, and what the two of them did to change it.

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Diplomatic Defiance

We talk to a lot of people. We hear a lot of stories.  But for every person who shares their story publicly, there are ten more who hold off because they’re afraid of blowback.  And we get it.  Speaking up is risky.  We often think about the costs of speaking up, but what has our silence cost?  In this episode, Wendy and Matt talk about the risks of not acting, and what their experience has taught them about how to speak up - and be heard.

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How to Inspire Others

Leaders can be infuriating or they can learn to be inspiring.  Adam Galinsky, a social psychologist and the Paul Calello Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, joins us to talk about how our vision, modeling and mentorship can inspire those around us.

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