Synopsis
The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Audio interview RSS feed. NEJM (http://www.nejm.org) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.
Episodes
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NEJM Interview: Prof. Jonathan Oberlander on health care policy in the United States over the past 100 years.
15/08/2012 Duration: 22minProf. Jonathan Oberlander is a professor of social medicine and of health policy and management at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J. Oberlander. Unfinished Journey - A Century of Health Care Reform in the United States. N Engl J Med 2012;367:585-90.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Rita Redberg on the approval process for medical devices in the United States and in Europe.
08/08/2012 Duration: 23minDr. Rita Redberg is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and the editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. S. Basu and J.C. Hassenplug. Patient Access to Medical Devices - A Comparison of U.S. and European Review Processes. N Engl J Med 2012;367:485-8.
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NEJM Interview: Colleen Barry on approaches to addressing the obesity epidemic in the United States.
01/08/2012 Duration: 14minColleen Barry is an associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. C.L. Barry, S.E. Gollust, and J. Niederdeppe. Are Americans Ready to Solve the Weight of the Nation? N Engl J Med 2012;367:389-91.
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NEJM Interview: Professors Renee Landers and John McDonough on the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act.
18/07/2012 Duration: 33minRenee Landers is a professor of law at Suffolk University Law School, and John McDonough is a professor of the practice of public health and director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. Landers RM. The Denouement of the Supreme Court's ACA Drama. N Engl J Med 2012;367:198-9 and McDonough JE. The Road Ahead for the Affordable Care Act. N Engl J Med 2012;367:199-201.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Lisa Lehmann on the physician's role in assisted dying for terminally ill patients.
11/07/2012 Duration: 16minDr. Lisa Lehmann is the director of the Center for Bioethics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.J.Z. Prokopetz and L.S. Lehmann. Redefining Physicians' Role in Assisted Dying. N Engl J Med 2012;367:97-9.
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NEJM Interview: David Radley on a recent study on geographic variations in access to and quality of U.S. health care.
04/07/2012 Duration: 15minDavid Radley is a senior health policy analyst at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Cambridge, MA. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. D.C. Radley and C. Schoen. Geographic Variation in Access to Care - The Relationship with Quality. N Engl J Med 2012;367:3-6.
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NEJM Interview: Katherine Baicker on the misguided focus on the creation of health care jobs.
27/06/2012 Duration: 05minKatherine Baicker is a professor of health economics in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. K. Baicker and A. Chandra. The Health Care Jobs Fallacy. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2433-5.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Aaron Kesselheim on a recent Supreme Court ruling on patents for diagnostic tests.
20/06/2012 Duration: 16minDr. Aaron Kesselheim is an assistant professor in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.S. Kesselheim and J. Karlawish. Biomarkers Unbound - The Supreme Court's Ruling on Diagnostic-Test Patents. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2338-40.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Julie Cantor on court-ordered care for pregnant women in the United States.
13/06/2012 Duration: 14minDr. Julie Cantor is an attorney and adjunct professor of law at the UCLA School of Law. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.D. Cantor. Court-Ordered Care - A Complication of Pregnancy to Avoid. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2237-40.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Arthur Kellermann on the increasing use of emergency departments and access to primary care.
06/06/2012 Duration: 13minDr. Arthur Kellermann is vice president of the RAND Corporation and director of RAND Health, Santa Monica, CA. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.L. Kellermann and R.M. Weinick. Emergency Departments, Medicaid Costs, and Access to Primary Care - Understanding the Link. N Engl J Med 2012;366:2141-3.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Francesca Gany on undocumented immigrants and the U.S. health care system.
30/05/2012 Duration: 17minDr. Francesca Gany is the chief of the Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and director of the Center for Immigrant Health and Cancer Disparities, New York, NY. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. J.O. Breen. Lost in Translation - Como se dice, "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"? N Engl J Med 2012;366:2045-7.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Howard Brody on the ethics of rationing and waste avoidance in health care.
23/05/2012 Duration: 24minDr. Howard Brody is a professor of family medicine and the director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. H. Brody. From an Ethics of Rationing to an Ethics of Waste Avoidance. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1949-51.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Susan Okie on the ongoing evolution of the primary care physician.
16/05/2012 Duration: 16minDr. Susan Okie is a medical journalist and clinical assistant professor of family medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. S. Okie. The Evolving Primary Care Physician. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1849-53.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Allison Goldfine on statins, the associated risk of diabetes, and the FDA's response.
09/05/2012 Duration: 09minDr. Allison Goldfine is the head of the Section of Clinical Research at Joslin Diabetes Center and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A.B. Goldfine. Statins: Is It Really Time to Reassess Benefits and Risks? N Engl J Med 2012;366:1752-5.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Timothy Quill on balancing evidence-based medicine and patient-centered care.
02/05/2012 Duration: 14minDr. Timothy Quill is a professor of medicine, psychiatry, and medical humanities and the director of the Center for Ethics, Humanities and Palliative Care at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. T.E. Quill and R.G. Holloway. Evidence, Preferences, Recommendations - Finding the Right Balance in Patient Care. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1653-5.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Jan Blustein on the effects of pay-for-performance approaches for hospitals.
25/04/2012 Duration: 08minDr. Jan Blustein is a professor of health policy and medicine at the Wagner Graduate School and the School of Medicine at New York University. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. A. Ryan and J. Blustein. Making the Best of Hospital Pay for Performance. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1557-9.
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NEJM Interview: Mark Hall on the recent Supreme Court oral arguments in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
18/04/2012 Duration: 13minMark Hall is a professor of health care law and policy and medical and bioethics at Wake Forest University Schools of Law and Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.A. Hall. Supreme Court Arguments on the ACA - A Clash of Two World Views. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1462-3.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Raynard Kington on the importance to medicine of the behavioral and social sciences.
04/04/2012 Duration: 19minDr. Raynard Kington, a physician and the former director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, is the president of Grinnell College in Iowa. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. R.M. Kaplan, J.M. Satterfield, and R.S. Kington. Building a Better Physician - The Case for the New MCAT. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1265-8.
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NEJM Interview: Dr. Steven Schroeder on smoking-cessation efforts in the United States.
28/03/2012 Duration: 13minDr. Steven Schroeder is a professor of health and health care and the director of the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. M.C. Fiore, E. Goplerud, and S.A. Schroeder. The Joint Commission's New Tobacco-Cessation Measures - Will Hospitals Do the Right Thing? N Engl J Med 2012;366:1172-4.
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NEJM Interview: Gail Wilensky on possible directions for bipartisan Medicare reform.
21/03/2012 Duration: 16minGail Wilensky is an economist and senior fellow at Project HOPE. Stephen Morrissey, the interviewer, is the Managing Editor of the Journal. G.R. Wilensky. Directions for Bipartisan Medicare Reform. N Engl J Med 2012;366:1071-3.