Today
Ning Leng, "Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China" (Cambridge, 2025)
In her new book, Politicizing Business: How Firms Are Made to Serve the Party-State in China (Cambridge, 2025), Ning Leng shows how Chinese officials systematically treat formally private firms as political instruments, extracting services that advance careers and maintain social ... Show More
55m 45s
Today
Dafeng Xu, "Chinatown: San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake and the Paradox of American Immigration Policy" (JHU Press, 2026)
San Francisco's Chinatown is the oldest Chinatown in North America and one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside Asia. Spanning 30 city blocks and home to tens of thousands of monolingual Chinese residents, its endurance is remarkable—especially given how close it came to erasu ... Show More
53m 53s
Feb 2
Jens Ludwig, "Unforgiving Places: The Unexpected Origins of American Gun Violence" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are the calculated acts of malicious or desperate people, Ludwig shows how most shootings actually grow out of a more fleeting source: interpersonal conflict, especially arguments. By examining why some arguments turn tragic while o ... Show More
1h 3m
Jun 2023
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero, "Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital" (Duke UP, 2022)
In Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital (Duke UP, 2022), César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as i ... Show More
1h 12m
Dec 2024
United Healthcare CEO Tragedy: The Fallout on the Healthcare Industry
<p><span>In this eye-opening clip of Market Mondays, Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings dive into the tragic event involving the United Healthcare CEO in Manhattan. This unfortunate incident has far-reaching implications, not just for United Healthcare, but for the broader healthcare ... Show More
8m 53s
Aug 2021
FHC #36: How physician teamwork makes the dream work
Goodbye, Marcus Welby, M.D., that lovable TV doctor from the early ‘70s whose humble private practice dealt with everything from impotence to Alzheimer’s disease. Hello to integrated, team-based, 21st-century medicine that enables doctors to work smarter, together, rather than ha ... Show More
51m 40s
Sep 2024
Episode 195: Can We Fix Healthcare in America?
Dr. Anish Koka, a cardiologist at Jefferson Health, returns to the show for the first time since the inaugural episode in October 2020. With a sharp focus on healthcare policy, he delves into the impact of the Affordable Care Act on his practice, critiques the influence of politi ... Show More
1h 8m
May 2025
Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs?
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling drugmakers to slash the prices of their medicines. Once again, the president showed an amazing nose for interesting questions. Statistically, the U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world’s population but nearly 5 ... Show More
1h 7m
Oct 2024
496: Prize-Winning Healthcare Journalist Mark Taylor on Saving Hospitals, Lives, and Billions of Dollars
<p dir="ltr">Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 496, an interview with the author of <em>Hospital, Heal Thyself,</em> Mark Taylor. In this episode, we explore the challenges and potential solutions in the healthcare industry, focusing on Dr. Litvak's methods. The discussion highl ... Show More
1h 11m
May 2024
Tanisha M. Fazal, "Military Medicine and the Hidden Costs of War" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Decisions to go to war are often framed in cost-benefit terms, and typically such assessments do not factor in longer term costs. However, recent dramatic improvements in American military medicine have had an unanticipated effect: saving more soldiers' lives has vastly increased ... Show More
56m 51s
Jun 2024
The Future of Healthcare: The Role of AI and Technology | Dr. Vijay Pande and Daisy Wolf
View Show Notes From This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal AI is set to revolutionize healthcare as we know it - improving diagnostics, treatment personalization, patient care, while simultaneously reducing costs ... Show More
56m 53s
Oct 2025
Eram Alam, "The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare" (JHU Press, 2025)
For more than 60 years, the United States has trained fewer physicians than it needs, relying instead on the economically expedient option of soliciting immigrant physicians trained at the expense of other countries. The passage of the Hart–Celler Immigration and Nationality Act ... Show More
51m 39s
Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive customer for the dialysis industry, which values the steady revenues that come from critically required long-term care that is guaranteed by the government.
Tom Mueller's six year deep dive into the dialysis ind ... Show More
