Not Otherwise Specified

In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, about her journalistic investigation of her own illness, trust in health care, and how cultural narratives affect our experiences of illness. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301935.

In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” physician-scientist and entrepreneur Ethan Weiss joins Lisa Rosenbaum to discuss perverse incentives in academic medicine, the risks of life as a self-appointed expert on social media, and his family’s ongoing debate over gene editing. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301934.

In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” physician and advocate Heidi Behforouz joins host Lisa Rosenbaum to discuss structural violence and social determinants of health, the role of love in medicine, and how to truly listen to patients’ stories. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301933.

In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” Paula Chatterjee and Atheen Venkataramani join host Lisa Rosenbaum to discuss the role of values in health care, social determinants of health, and what physicians can do to improve U.S. health care. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301932.

In the first episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Shekinah Elmore about her hard-won insights into patients’ experiences of both illness and health care, the role of narrative in life and medicine, and how to achieve true shared decision making. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301931.

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.