Investigative journalist Gardiner Harris joins us to talk about No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, an explosive expose of an organization whose image as a ""child-friendly" baby company" contrasts against "reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions."
Feb 26
52 min
Our news feeds are rife with stories of betrayal, and as physicians, many of those stories feel shockingly familiar. We outline three levels of moral injury that can follow betrayal and offer strategies to prevent and mitigate that harm.
Feb 12
29 min
New job? Congrats! Now go read the fine print in your contract. Carefully. Lawyer Dennis Hursh shares his decades of history and experience negotiating - or re-negotiating - physician contracts.
Jan 29
35 min
Legendary investigative journalist and NYT reporter Walt Bogdanich (When McKinsey Comes to Town) joins us to talk about his recent article "How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research" and the broader impacts of what happens when outside financial firms influence internal business operations.
Jan 15
40 min
New year, new beginnings. We covered a lot of ground last year and we're going to keep up the pressure and keep fighting the good fight. Wendy and Matt discuss what and who they appreciated about last year's episodes, and what they're looking forward to in 2026.
Jan 1
31 min
Eight months ago, we followed along as Prospect Medical shuttered Crozer Health. In this episode, as promised, several of the doctors, nurses, medical assistants, elected officials and public servants we spoke to initially tell us how they have fared since. A few themes emerged: the unexpected domino effects when a hospital closes, the importance of community, trust, and transparency, the mismatch between healthcare executives in pursuit of profit and medical professionals in pursuit of public service (and the moral injury that results), and their relentless commitment to and hope for the community they served.
Dec 22, 2025
46 min
We promised to follow up on The Fall of Crozer Health and we'll drop our full episode on Monday. For anyone thinking of selling to private equity, you won't want to miss this.
Dec 18, 2025
1 min
Was dialysis the canary in medicine's coal mine of corporatization, as neoliberalism took hold in the US? Tom Mueller, journalist and author of "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine", joins us to talk about how dialysis became a "microcosm of American medicine" and what we can do to fix it.
Dec 4, 2025
52 min
We make a lot of changes that don't make much difference. Why? In this episode, Wendy and Matt borrow the perspective of rancher and regenerative agriculture proponent, Don Campbell, who said, "If you want to make small changes, change the way you do things. If you want to make major changes, change the way you see things". We apply that big picture thinking to solutions-finding in healthcare.
Nov 20, 2025
36 min
In 2023, 82% of nurses had experienced at least one workplace violence incident, and nearly half were experiencing even more violence. And it's not just nurses. Surgeons, ER docs, primary care physicians and others know violence in healthcare is on the rise. Erin Pastore and Marie Lopresti, two ED nurses in Philadelphia, share their personal experiences with violence in their workplace, and how to restore the balance we all - patients and practitioners, alike - need. Listener discretion advised.
Nov 6, 2025
39 min
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