NEJM Interviews
Insightful conversations with leading experts in the field of health care, medical research, policy, and more from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Each episode examines the many complexities found at the junction of medicine and society.
Latest episodes
Apr 24, 2024 • 10min
NEJM Interview: Kevin Schulman on unionization as a response to consolidation and corporatization in health care.
Kevin Schulman is a professor of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. K. Schulman and B. Richman. Hospital Consolidation and Physician Unionization. N Engl J Med 2024;390:1445-1447.
Apr 17, 2024 • 10min
NEJM Interview: Stephanie Fullerton on the rise of clinical genetic testing and related ethical considerations.
Stephanie Fullerton is a professor in the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. S.M. Fullerton and K.B. Brothers. Expanding Applications of Clinical Genetic Testing — Ethical Challenges. N Engl J Med 2024;390:1349-1351.
Apr 10, 2024 • 14min
NEJM Interview: R. Alta Charo on the potential implications of the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine.
R. Alta Charo is a professor emerita of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. R.A. Charo. Back to the Future in Alabama. N Engl J Med 2024;390:1253-1255.
Mar 20, 2024 • 9min
NEJM Interview: Daniel Sulmasy on the role of spirituality in patient care.
Daniel Sulmasy is director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Philosophy at Georgetown University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.P. Sulmasy. Physicians, Spirituality, and Compassionate Patient Care. N Engl J Med 2024;390:1061-1063.
Mar 13, 2024 • 9min
NEJM Interview: Dhruv Khullar on the trend of hospital acquisition of physician practices in the United States.
Dhruv Khullar is an assistant professor of medicine and of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D. Khullar, L.P. Casalino, and A.M. Bond. Vertical Integration and the Transformation of American Medicine. N Engl J Med 2024;390:965-967.
Feb 28, 2024 • 18min
NEJM Interview: José Rodríguez on an intervention aimed at recruiting a diverse class into a family medicine residency program.
José Rodríguez is a tenured professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and the associate vice president for health equity, diversity, and inclusion at University of Utah Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. J.E. Rodríguez and K. Stoesser. Transforming Diversity of a Family Medicine Residency Program. N Engl J Med 2024;390:773-775.
Feb 21, 2024 • 16min
NEJM Interview: Ilya Golovaty on platforms offering direct-to-consumer prescribing of medications for weight management.
Ilya Golovaty is an acting assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. I. Golovaty and S. Hagan. Direct-to-Consumer Platforms for New Antiobesity Medications — Concerns and Potential Opportunities. N Engl J Med 2024;390:677-680.
Feb 14, 2024 • 12min
NEJM Interview: Dave Chokshi on ethical issues faced by safety-net health systems in the United States.
Dave Chokshi is a professor at the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York and a physician at Bellevue Hospital. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.A. Chokshi and F.P. Cerise. Ethical Issues in Providing Care in Safety-Net Health Systems. N Engl J Med 2024;390:581-584.
Feb 7, 2024 • 6min
NEJM Interview: David Higgins on public confidence in the value of childhood vaccines and the importance of combating misinformation about vaccination.
David Higgins is a research fellow and investigator at the Adult and Child Center for Outcomes Research and Delivery Science and a general academic pediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. D.M. Higgins and S.T. O’Leary. The Risks of Normalizing Parental Vaccine Hesitancy. N Engl J Med 2024;390:485-487.
Jan 24, 2024 • 9min
NEJM Interview: Andrew Lea on how experience with a 1970s computerized diagnostic program can inform efforts to implement machine-learning prediction models in medicine.
Andrew Lea is a resident physician in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a clinical fellow at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Executive Managing Editor of the Journal. A.S. Lea and D.S. Jones. Mind the Gap — Machine Learning, Dataset Shift, and History in the Age of Clinical Algorithms. N Engl J Med 2024;390:293-295.
