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.
NEJM Interview: Dr. Paul Ginsburg on recent Massachusetts legislation aimed at containing increases in statewide health care spending.
10 mins; August 29, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Chris Beyrer on scientific advances and remaining obstacles to controlling the AIDS epidemic.
13 mins; August 22, 2012
NEJM Interview: Prof. Jonathan Oberlander on health care policy in the United States over the past 100 years.
22 mins; August 15, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Rita Redberg on the approval process for medical devices in the United States and in Europe.
23 mins; August 08, 2012
NEJM Interview: Colleen Barry on approaches to addressing the obesity epidemic in the United States.
14 mins; August 01, 2012
NEJM Interview: Professors Renee Landers and John McDonough on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act.
33 mins; July 18, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Lisa Lehmann on the physician's role in assisted dying for terminally ill patients.
16 mins; July 11, 2012
NEJM Interview: David Radley on a recent study on geographic variations in access to and quality of U.S. health care.
15 mins; July 04, 2012
NEJM Interview: Katherine Baicker on the misguided focus on the creation of health care jobs.
5 mins; June 27, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Aaron Kesselheim on a recent Supreme Court ruling on patents for diagnostic tests.
16 mins; June 20, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Julie Cantor on court-ordered care for pregnant women in the United States.
14 mins; June 13, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Arthur Kellermann on the increasing use of emergency departments and access to primary care.
13 mins; June 06, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Francesca Gany on undocumented immigrants and the U.S. health care system.
17 mins; May 30, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Howard Brody on the ethics of rationing and waste avoidance in health care.
24 mins; May 23, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Susan Okie on the ongoing evolution of the primary care physician.
16 mins; May 16, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Allison Goldfine on statins, the associated risk of diabetes, and the FDA's response.
9 mins; May 09, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Timothy Quill on balancing evidence-based medicine and patient-centered care.
14 mins; May 02, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jan Blustein on the effects of pay-for-performance approaches for hospitals.
8 mins; April 25, 2012
NEJM Interview: Mark Hall on the recent Supreme Court oral arguments in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
13 mins; April 18, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Raynard Kington on the importance to medicine of the behavioral and social sciences.
19 mins; April 04, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Steven Schroeder on smoking-cessation efforts in the United States.
13 mins; March 28, 2012
NEJM Interview: Gail Wilensky on possible directions for bipartisan Medicare reform.
16 mins; March 21, 2012
NEJM Interview: Sharon-Lise Normand on medical device approval and postmarketing surveillance.
18 mins; March 07, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Michael Barry on patient-centered care and shared decision making.
22 mins; February 29, 2012
NEJM Interview: Alan Weil on the states' role in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
22 mins; February 22, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Truog on issues in medical ethics and the physician-patient relationship.
21 mins; February 15, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Pieter Cohen on the regulation of dietary supplements.
17 mins; February 01, 2012
NEJM Interview: Michael Chernew on the Medicare's physician-payment system and the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.
10 mins; January 25, 2012
NEJM Interview: Cynthia Jackevicius on generic drugs and health care costs.
10 mins; January 18, 2012
NEJM Interview: I. Glenn Cohen on the constitutional challenge of the Affordable Care Act that will heard by the United States Supreme Court in March.
19 mins; January 11, 2012
NEJM Interview: Allan Brandt on the history of the Journal as a window into the history of medicine, science, and society.
22 mins; January 04, 2012
NEJM Interview: Dr. Robert Schwartz on the history of cancer research.
12 mins; December 21, 2011
NEJM Interview: Dr. Elliot Israel on the risks and benefits of long-acting beta agonists in the treatment of asthma and COPD.
16 mins; December 14, 2011
NEJM Interview: Dr. Jerry Avorn on the evolving approach to drug safety in the United States
