

Not Otherwise Specified
NEJM Group
In “Not Otherwise Specified,” Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, cardiologist and national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, defies our sound-bite culture to go deep with some of medicine’s most innovative thinkers. Her guests’ stories and ideas about health care’s toughest challenges and greatest promise may change the way you think about medicine, health, and society.
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Mar 13, 2024 • 39min
Debt Et Cetera
In this episode, host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with two trainees whose lives and careers have been changed by educational debt, and to an economist who has a rather different take on the problem.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400695.

Mar 6, 2024 • 37min
OK, Boomer
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with an expert on generational change and a member of the current trainee cohort about generational values and the need for cross-generational dialogue.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400693.

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Feb 21, 2024 • 38min
Unions at the Tip of the Iceberg
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with physician trainees and a former residency program director to weigh the benefits and risks of the new wave of trainee unionization.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400692.

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Feb 14, 2024 • 40min
Tough Love
Exploring the tensions between well-being and education in medical training, addressing challenges in accreditation processes, the impact of social media on residency experiences, embracing discomfort for growth, and the rise of training unionization in medical education.

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Feb 7, 2024 • 41min
Why We Work
Exploring the evolving perspectives of medical trainees on work as a profession or vocation, impact of pandemic on healthcare workers, personal struggles in healthcare, overcoming weight issues, redefining work in pandemic era, tension between calling and job in medicine.

Jan 31, 2024 • 28min
Revolutionary Rumblings
Host Lisa Rosenbaum discusses the quiet revolution in medical training and the challenges faced by trainees during the pandemic. The episode explores the 'kids these days' effect and changing attitudes in medical training, highlighting the importance of collaboration between educators and trainees.

Jan 24, 2024 • 4min
Trailer for Season 2: The Quiet Revolution in Medical Training
In Season 2 of the NEJM podcast “Not Otherwise Specified” (NOS), host Lisa Rosenbaum delves into multiple facets of a burgeoning revolution in medical training. In discussions with a diverse group of trainees, educators, and experts on evolving cultural norms, Lisa explores the effects of the Covid pandemic, societal changes in attitudes toward work, trainee unionization, clashes of generational philosophies, the well-being movement, and other key strands of the rapidly changing fabric of medical culture.

Apr 19, 2023 • 59min
The Pragmatism of Hope
In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” Richard Rosenbaum, a neurologist and the uncle of host Lisa Rosenbaum, tells the story of his own progressive neurologic disease and considers his coping mechanisms and the care he has received.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301938.

Apr 12, 2023 • 59min
Examining Inequity
“Not Otherwise Specified” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Marcella Alsan about her winding career path and her studies on medical mistrust, racial concordance between physicians and patients, and their effects on deeply entrenched health inequities.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301937.

Apr 5, 2023 • 50min
Medicine Machines
“Not Otherwise Specified” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Ziad Obermeyer about his trailblazing work in the application of machine learning to population health, the fraught problems it seeks to solve, and its lessons for critical aspects of clinical care.
A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301936.


