Hear Me Now Podcast

An online transcript is available�� Complete episode notes can be found here Playlists: �� Apple Music �� ���� Spotify �� ���� .pdf Trouble listening? Right-click to download an MP3 �� "Self-care" became a common discussion topic at the start of the pandemic to the extent that it's now not unheard of for relative strangers to share their life-hacks with each other. So, as we come to the end of 202...

A transcript is available online �� Women outnumber men in American medical schools, but in the operating room it's still an Old Boys' Club. Surgery remains a bastion of male privilege, prerogative, and power in American healthcare. But that is changing. On today's program, Se��n talks with three surgeons who understand firsthand the challenges faced by the women who routinely suffer insults and a...

A transcript is available online . Today we���re tapping the storytelling skills of veteran science and tech reporter, Steve Silberman . In 2015, Silberman���s book NeuroTribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity was published and soon took a place on The New York Times bestseller list. And in Britain, it was awarded the Samuel Johnson prize for best nonfiction writing in Englis...

Before the pandemic, one-in-five children in America faced a challenge with their mental, emotional, or behavioral health. Since the pandemic, symptoms of depression and anxiety among young people have doubled, worldwide. We all have a role in protecting the mental health of kids. And we can start by making it something that it���s OK to talk about.�� On today���s program, two youth advocates for...

In 2019, Tembi Locke's book From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home found a place in Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine Book Club and on the New York Times bestseller list. It has now been adapted as an eight-part series on Netflix starring Zoe Salda��a and Eugenio Mastrandrea. Tembi Locke talks with Se��n about the adaptation that she helmed with her sister Attica Locke, about th...

Tembi Locke's best-selling memoir, From Scratch , has been turned into an eight-part series streaming now on Netflix. It's the story of life and love and loss... and the healthcare choices a family makes.�� Tembi will be our guest on the next episode (10/27/2022) of the podcast. Check out "From Scratch" on Netflix and then make a plan to join us on the next Hear Me Now Podcast.

���� A transcript is available online �� They describe the program as bi-directional: The Providence Global and Domestic Engagement department sponsors family medicine residents from across Providence���s seven-state health system to gain skills not available in the U.S. context to practice at the Mangochi District Hospital in Malawi. Meantime, family medicine registrars from Malawi's Kamuzu Unive...

Last year in the U.S., more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses. It's a staggering statistic that was unthinkable just a few years ago. �� A paper by Dr. Honora Englander and attorney Corey Davis in the New England Journal of Medicine took hospitals and policy-makers to task last month for not doing enough to support and engage people who use drugs and who are hospitalized. �� They write, "...

Today, ��we look at well-being with wisdom gleaned from the first two years of this podcast. We listen with an ear to taking care of ourselves in ordinary times from people in the throes of extraordinary times��� warfare��� pandemic��� social change��� illness��� and the challenges of just being human. . Explore the complete list of past episodes. . . BE UNCOMFORTABLE Providence caregivers Jeremy...

The syndrome that's appearing after someone is infected with COVID is an emerging global health crisis. Yet, confusion about Long COVID remains. Which symptoms get ruled-in? Which get ruled-out? Can anything be a symptom of Long COVID if it occurs after a COVID infection? On today's program, we talk with researchers studying the illnesses that people who have had COVID are living with, including p...

Bullet wounds go more than skin deep. LJ Punch, M.D., is a trauma surgeon and the founder of the BRIC ��� the Bullet-Related Injury Clinic in Saint Louis, Mo.. The BRIC is where shooting victims come for wound care and education, help with pain management, care for the emotional and social impact of being shot, and the acknowledgement that their bullet wound could likely have profound spiritual me...

It���s estimated that 1 in 10 of us hear voices, which may be a sign of mental illness. Or not. We examine the phenomena through Caroline Mazel-Carlton. She���s part of a movement of people who have come to find meaning in the experience of hearing voices (or seeing visions) and who learn to incorporate those experiences in their life. Many forgo use of some or all medications and are seeking well...

The current outbreak of monkeypox is unusual because the viral illness is rarely seen outside the places where it's endemic. (It is most often seen in Central and Western Africa.) Monkeypox is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infectious person or animal, or by contact with material (clothing, bedding) that an infectious person has used. It's a self-limiting disease with symptoms...

Host Se��n Collins talks with Dr. Carlos Blanco, lead author of a perspective piece published June 16, 2022, in the New England Journal of Medicine titled, " Research to Move Policy ��� Using Evidence to Advance Health Equity for Substance Use Disorders ." The authors note that, despite substantial efforts to address the epidemic of drug-overdose deaths in the United States, racial and ethnic disp...

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 transgender kids, others who love them, and trans+ kids themselves. . Not seeing the glossary & all of the resources below? Try this link to our podcast w...

A�� conversation between Travis, a pre-teen trans boy, and his parents Cindy & Rowan��� who���ve asked us to use pseudonyms when referring to their family. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids . ��

Producer Scott Acord talks with�� his colleague, Jayne Hopke, who identifies herself as pan-sexual. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Producer Scott Acord talks with Jami Gramore, a queer non-binary adult. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids . ��

Carmen Marshall talks with her friend Elbe about their shared experiences as mothers of trans youth. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Vinny and Henry Fox discuss their life together and Vinny's identification as a queer non-binary trans person. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Rabbis Karen and Daniel Bogard talk about their young son's transition and about the support they feel in their social circles and faith community, and the threats they face from the State Legislature as parents of a trans child in Missouri. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Elbe talks with daughter Ella, a preteen trans girl. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Holly talks with her daughter Evy, a 14-year-old trans girl, about her transition seven years ago. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Sam Pelger, a 19 year old trans man, talks with his mother, Erin, about his transition when he was younger and living in Montana. This extended interview is part of a podcast on Gender-affirming care for kids .

Some first-year medical students 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 practice medicine? Host Se��n Collins talks with four physicians who began their training later in life.�� . JOIN US ONLINE ON JUNE 16th HUMANIZING HEALTHCARE EXPERT SERIES For information on the June 1...