Arifeen Rahman: Hospital Dominoes

Larry Lee shares his thoughts on attending a high school reunion and reconnecting with former classmates. 

Laura Fay shares about her experience practicing speaking Spanish in different neighborhoods. 

Ralph Nichols shares his experience when he took a summer job as an ice delivery truck driver. 

For Assignment, Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of Guatemala’s hospital for the mentally ill. 

The Acute Hospital At Home program in Oxford, England keeps patients in their own homes, who might otherwise be admitted to hospital. Professor Dan Lasserson takes Dr. Brian Goldman on the road to show how they bring effective and safe hospital care right into patients’ homes. 

Doctors at Royal Darwin hospital struggle to communicate with Aboriginal patients, but a podcast featuring Aboriginal elders answering doctors’ questions aims to help better deliver culturally safe care. 

Doctors Without Borders has built a reputation parachuting into war zones and natural disasters. Now they are bringing their expertise to American nursing homes hit hard by the Covid-19 crisis. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta speaks with the organization's staff ... Show More

Hear diagnostician Gurpreet Dhaliwal try to solve the case of a patient who came to the emergency room with an unusual combination of symptoms. Plus, we discuss how difficult it is to separate the signal from the noise when treating patients, and how cognitive biases factor into ... Show More

American Sirens author Kevin Hazzard tells the story of a community group in a Black neighborhood in Pittsburgh who helped spark a revolution in emergency medicine. As recently as the 1960s, anyone suffering a heart attack or serious injury who called for help might get a respons ... Show More

Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, began burying more than 100 dead bodies in a mass grave inside the medical complex to avoid a sanitary crisis, Gaza’s health ministry said. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Talking about death might be hard, but there are so many good reasons to break the silence surrounding it. This episode of the Beirut Buzz podcast gets the conversation started with Najah Raya, communication officer at Sanad – Lebanese home hospice NGO that empowers patients with ... Show More

The hospital staff were frantic trying to save the 26 bodies that were being wheeled into the emergency room. A local psychiatric clinic had suspiciously burst into flames. Mental health professionals, doctors, and patients were being rushed into the hospital.The doctors focused ... Show More