Better Listening for Better Health

We need to talk about health misinformation! In the age of AI, it’s way more complex than you think. And it’s dangerous. My guest in this episode is no stranger to the power of social media as a platform for taking health communication beyond the clinic, to reach patients often where and when they are at their most vulnerable. But my conversation with Dr Eleonora Teplinsky also shines a light on t...

Speaking with Katie King about manufacturing medicines in space was truly mind-stretching for me. Katie is a brilliant scientist with incredible ideas, and her passion for using space technology to benefit humans is contagious.  In this episode we talk about how studying nanomedicine, and her experience with NASA, inspired her to attempt what’s never been done before: mass manufacturing medicines...

My conversation with Prof. Partha Kar was a journey into how to use social media to drive access to better healthcare.  We talk about health equity; we talk about data, and the vital role that communication plays in effective health leadership.  And Prof. Kar talks about how important social media is for that. In fact, he says that without social media, there would not have been what he calls the...

Back when doctors were first getting onto social media, Dr Richard Brady was already learning and collaborating on Twitter. Today, he’s at the cutting edge of new medicine and surgery. In this episode, he talks about advances in patient diagnosis and also the new challenges that has created in the health system. I was so excited to catch up with him again, years after we first started collaboratin...

My guest in this episode is one of the most passionate doctors I’ve spoken with about social media. So much so that while he describes being a doctor as his “day-job”, he talks about being on social media as his “passion project”. It’s a kind of passion for learning, and also for teaching. If you’ve been following the show, you’ll already know from other guests that doctors are using social media...

Social media is saving lives. If that sounds like an extreme statement, listen to this conversation. There must be few of us who have not been touched by cancer in some way. It’s an area of healthcare where it seems there’s so much work to be done. But listening to Dr Shaalan Beg, who is a medical oncologist based in Texas, gave me so much hope. In this episode he talks about the amazing ways that...

I first met Dr Kevin Fernando in person at a European medical congress where thousands of doctors were meeting to learn about the latest science in diabetes care. I felt like I knew him already, because I’d been listening to his social media posts and seeing the impact he was making online among healthcare professionals all over the world, through the work I do at CREATION.co. But what I really lo...

Hi, I'm Daniel Ghinn, and this is Better Listening for Better Health. It's a podcast about how healthcare professionals learn and share medical knowledge. We're going to discover this together, by listening to some of the most inspiring doctors, nurses and scientists I've met. We'll hear them talk about how social media impacts their work and helps them achieve better health. O...