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Not Otherwise Specified

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In “Not Otherwise Specified,” Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, cardiologist and national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, defies our sound-bite culture to go deep with some of medicine’s most innovative thinkers. Her guests’ stories and ideas about health care’s toughest challenges and greatest promise may change the way you think about medicine, health, and society.

Latest episodes

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When No One's Watching

In the final NOS episode of the season, host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests elucidate the quiet beauty of good primary care and consider how to induce the U.S. health care

Apr 15
1 h 00 min

Dream Team

If the future of primary care lies in teams, what makes a team and how should it function? NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider the possibilities of team-based

Mar 11
45 min

Of Trust, AI, and Green Beans

NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests discuss the extent to which online influencers and AI could someday substitute for trustworthy, caring, broad-spectrum family docto

Feb 25
48 min

Autonomy vs. Equity

With increasing numbers of PCPs leaving traditional practice for concierge medicine or direct primary care, NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests explore the promise and

Jan 21
42 min

Who Can See Their PCP?

NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider what should be done to make primary care more accessible to the patients who need it most? A full transcript of this epis

Dec 29 2025
35 min

Raising a RUCkus

NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests dissect the common notion that the key to improving the primary care system is simply increasing reimbursement. A full transcript

Dec 10 2025
40 min

Doctor with a Capital D

NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests lay bare the joys and rewards of full-spectrum primary care practice and consider ways of stoking students’ passion, and strengthen

Nov 26 2025
43 min

Undervalued

Podcast host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests examine the value system of American medicine and the systematic denigration of primary care that creates a dangerous vicious c

Nov 12 2025
35 min

If You Break It, They Won't Come

NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests explore the fraught relationship between medical training and primary care — and why even trainees who once aspired to be PCPs are

Nov 5 2025
40 min

Misunderstandings

In this episode of NOS, Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider the ideals and realities of primary care — and the expectations and misunderstandings that are contri

Oct 29 2025
32 min

Can AI Solve Primary Care?

Podcast host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Steven Lin, a Stanford PCP and AI implementation expert, about the promise and perils of AI and its limits as a solution to the for

Oct 22 2025
47 min

Alive and Kicking

In the first podcast episode of NOS Season 3, "The Forever Crisis of Primary Care," Lisa Rosenbaum talks with primary care guru Asaf Bitton about the vast values gap betw

Oct 15 2025
42 min

Injured, Not Sidelined

This season finale examines the moral injury that the current U.S. health care system inflicts on physicians and trainees — and how they may be able to offer care that al

Apr 17 2024
39 min

Walking the Dog

This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees. A full tra

Apr 10 2024
44 min

Building Up without Breaking Down

This episode asks how medical educators should navigate between demanding intense commitment and hard-won excellence from trainees and seriously threatening their well-be

Apr 3 2024
44 min

Whatever It Takes

This episode takes a sobering look at the mental health of U.S. medical students and trainees, in an era when the pressures can be intolerable but the culture still treat

Mar 20 2024
32 min

Debt Et Cetera

In this episode, host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with two trainees whose lives and careers have been changed by educational debt, and to an economist who has a rather different

Mar 13 2024
38 min

OK, Boomer

In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with an expert on generational change and a member of the current trainee cohort about generational values and the need for cross-ge

Mar 6 2024
36 min

Unions at the Tip of the Iceberg

In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with physician trainees and a former residency program director to weigh the benefits and risks of the new wave of trainee unionizat

Feb 21 2024
37 min

Tough Love

In this episode, a medical educator goes on the record with widespread but rarely publicly voiced concerns about the slippery slope from “wellness days” to inadequate med

Feb 14 2024
39 min

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74
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#194 ▼ 32 Medicine US

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A moving and pertinent podcast about what it takes to be a truly compassionate physician. I’ve been a psychiatrist for over twenty years and listen to medical podcasts all the time - this is the real deal. Thank you, Dr. Rosenbaum, you are a cardiologist who is all about the heart!

Dr. SXM · Mar 2023

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