Daily Remedy

We discuss Dr. John Whyte's latest book, Take Control of Your Diabetes Risk, and reveal what it offers patients struggling with diabetes. Dr. Whyte is the Chief Medical Officer, WebMD. He leads efforts to develop and expand strategic partnerships that create meaningful change around important and timely public health issues.  Prior to WebMD, Whyte served as the director of professional affair...

We discuss Miss Haelle's struggles to overcome vaccine misinformation during the pandemic. As a journalist, she often found herself at odds with physicians despite her extensive track record of health journalism and research on vaccines. Miss Haelle is a science and multimedia journalist who specializes in reporting on vaccines and other matters of public health, pediatric and maternal health, and...

We discuss Miss Lamb’s experiences during the pandemic and glean her thoughts on how it affected the quality of writing among journalists. She explains how disruptions in normal journalistic processes hamper accurate reporting and fact-checking. Sandra Lamb is an award-winning author of many books, including; Writing Well for Business Success; 3000 Power Words and Phrases for Effective Performance...

We discuss her journalism as a writer and lived experiences as a patient during the pandemic, chronicling a timeline of her work before and after she became symptomatic with COVID-19. Miss Andrea King Collier has over 30 years of experience reporting on medicine, public health, health care and health care policy for national publications and news outlets, including NBC, Next Avenue, and Essence. H...

We discuss addiction policies in Rhode Island and demonstrate how political bureaucracies can influence the passing of addiction policy and law. Mr. Tassoni is a former state senator from Rhode Island who currently serves as a vice president at the Substance Use and Mental Health Leadership Council, and who is also a member of the Rhode Island Governor’s Task Force on Overdose Prevention and Inter...

We discuss health and equity in a post-pandemic world. While health and equity may be the future of medicine, its roots are firmly grounded in past disparities of healthcare. We show how past racially discriminatory practices in medicine manifest as subtle biases today. Miss Leah Samuel is a health and equity editor for The Conversation. Previously she was a staff reporter for STAT. A journalist f...

We discuss the oral arguments presented on March 1st in the seminal case, Ruan v. United States - arguably the most important case on opioid prescribing in decades, and a surefire bellwether for future opioid-related cases. https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/20-1410.html https://www.chapmanlawgroup.com/

We discuss the proposed changes to the CDC opioid prescribing guidelines and challenge the false notions around opioids, prohibition, and addiction. Dr. Singer shares the wisdom of his experiences as he discusses America's long history of struggling to understand addiction. Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and works in the Department of Health Policy Studies. He is Pr...

We discuss Miss Schechtman's journey from a patient to a patient advocate, who through her platform now empowers patients suffering from chronic pain to speak about the injustices they face in today's healthcare system. She has spent years chronicling the false opioid litigation narrative, and has learned how a select few physicians and policy makers led an entire nation down a path of misinformat...

We discuss the past, present, and future of healthcare journalism, gleaning lessons learned over the course of the pandemic to predict upcoming trends. Mr. Levine has had one of the most prolific and storied careers as a healthcare journalist, writing for organizations ranging from pharmaceutical behemoths to national patient advocacy groups. During the pandemic, he actively combated vaccine misin...

We discuss Dr. Dasgupta's research paper,  Inches, Centimeters, and Yards, to learn about inconsistencies in the definition of Morphine Milligram Equivalents (MME) and how they have led to clinically harmful policies.

Dr. Mark Garofoli is a 2004 graduate from the Pitt School of Pharmacy and a 2008 graduate of the Strayer University MBA program, and is a Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacist (BCGP), Certified Pain Educator (CPE), and Certified Tobacco Treatment Specialist (CTTs), with APhA certificate training in Immunizations and Medication Therapy Management (MTM). He began his career as a pharmacist and in fie...

Dr. John Whyte is a popular physician and writer who has been communicating to the public about health issues for nearly two decades. He is the Chief Medical Officer of WebMD, and the author of the new book, Take Control of Your Cancer Risk. We discuss the state of healthcare media and glean his insights on trends to see in 2022.

Dr. Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and an Affiliate of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. His work is focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity. We discuss his views on the pandemic - what we got right and what we got wron...

Dr. Yeldandi is the Director of SHARE India and an infectious disease specialist with over 25 years of experience in transplant-specific infectious diseases, public health policy, infection prevention, and patient safety.

Mr. Ron Chapman II began his career as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps and was deployed to combat in Afghanistan. He achieved the rank of Captain before transitioning to law. He graduated from Loyola School of Law, where he received his Master of Laws (LL.M.) with a concentration in health care compliance. He quickly established himself as a premier healthcare defense counsel, and is among the...

Dr. Goldfarb has been an advocate of disenfranchised patients for decades, beginning with the AIDS epidemic and continuing through the pandemic. She now actively combats vaccine misinformation through the organization, This Is Our Shot, which has redefined effective healthcare communication during the pandemic.

Dr. Shajahan is leading the conversation on healthcare misinformation and overcoming vaccine hesitancy through a unique blend of policy leadership and patient communication. We discuss insights gleaned through her experiences, to learn how pandemic misinformation has led to vaccine hesitancy.

Dr. Rotenstein is a primary care physician, healthcare leader, and researcher whose work focuses on care delivery innovation, physician wellbeing, including burnout and depression, and gender issues in medicine.

We speak with Miss Leonard, Chief Operating Officer of MashupMD, a healthcare news aggregation site designed to improve the experience of reading healthcare information online. MashupMD is the premier medical news aggregator that is completely free of data-tracking algorithms, and optimized for rapid and efficient access to the latest headlines in the medical world. To learn more about MashupMD, p...

There are victims and then there are leaders. Dr. London was supposed to be the former, but she has become the latter. After enduring years of erroneous claims made against her by the DEA and the Maine medical licensing board, she decided to take matters into her own hands by attending law school. Now in her last year of law school, she intends on becoming a leader in opioid policy and medical jur...

We interview Dr. Danielle Ofri, a pioneer in narrative medicine and the editor in chief of Bellevue Literary Review (BLR). She transformed BLR from an outgrowth of New York University to an independent publishing house. Now BLR celebrates its twentieth anniversary. To learn more about BLR, please select the link below: https://blreview.org/

We interview TameraLynn Stewart, one of the most successful chronic pain advocates in the country, who turned her experiences with pain and cancer into public health advocacy. She authored Senate Bill 57 (SB57), which proved to be landmark legislation, making Oklahoma one of the first states to reverse course on poorly conceived opioid policies - turning against restrictive prescribing practices a...

We discuss Dr. Cifu's book, Ending Medical Reversal, which discusses why we enact healthcare policies based on weak evidence or outright erroneous beliefs. We delve into policy reversals discussed in the book and those seen during the pandemic. To purchase his book, co-authored with Dr. Vinay Prasad, please select the link below: https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/ending-medical-reversal We als...

Dr. Hochman leads a new initiative that provides sustainable, non-profit healthcare services to people experiencing homelessness (PEH). The initiative is part of SCAN Group, an organization known for innovative models of patient care. Healthcare in Action seeks to prove that caring for PEH populations can be a sustainable, non-profit business model that optimizes both economic and clinical outcome...