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  When No One's Watching 15.04.2026 1h

  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 system to prize it more highly. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514244.
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  Dream Team 11.03.2026 45min

  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 care. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514243.
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  Of Trust, AI, and Green Beans 25.02.2026 48min

  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 doctors. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514241.
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  Autonomy vs. Equity 21.01.2026 42min

  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 perils. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514240.
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  Who Can See Their PCP? 29.12.2025 35min

  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 episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514239.
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  Raising a RUCkus 10.12.2025 40min

  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 of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514238.
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  Doctor with a Capital D 26.11.2025 43min

  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 strengthening their ability, to pursue it. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514237.
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  Undervalued 12.11.2025 35min

  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 cycle. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514236.
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  If You Break It, They Won't Come 05.11.2025 40min

  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 changing course midstream. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514235.
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  Misunderstandings 29.10.2025 32min

  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 contributing to its current crisis. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514234.
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  Can AI Solve Primary Care? 22.10.2025 47min

  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 forever crisis of primary care.  A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514233.
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  Alive and Kicking 15.10.2025 42min

  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 between patients and the health care system.  A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514232.
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  Injured, Not Sidelined 17.04.2024 39min

  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 aligns with their values. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400700.
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  Walking the Dog 10.04.2024 44min

  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 transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.
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  Building Up without Breaking Down 03.04.2024 44min

  This episode asks how medical educators should navigate between demanding intense commitment and hard-won excellence from trainees and seriously threatening their well-being. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400697. Source from this episode: https://www.culturalcomplications.com/
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  Whatever It Takes 20.03.2024 32min

  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 treats depression as weakness. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400696. Notes from this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/nyregion/lorna-breen-suicide-coronavirus.html https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/encourage-physicians-healing-make-it-ok-ask-help
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  Debt Et Cetera 13.03.2024 38min

  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 take on the problem. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400695.
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  OK, Boomer 06.03.2024 36min

  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-generational dialogue. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400693.
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  Unions at the Tip of the Iceberg 21.02.2024 37min

  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 unionization. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400692.
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  Tough Love 14.02.2024 39min

  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 medical training. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400690.