Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds

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  OB Emergencies in the ED, with ACOG's Dr. Jenna White - ERcast: Clinical Perspectives 01.07.2026 26min

  Pregnancy complications can happen up to a year postpartum, and they can show up in any clinical setting. What should emergency medicine and urgent care clinicians do if an obstetrician isn't nearby?   Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our ERcast: Clinical Perspectives podcast about managing OB emergencies in non-obstetric settings. EM physician Tiffany Proffitt, MD, sits down with Dr. Jenna White, Chair of the Obstetric Emergencies in Non-Obstetric Settings Initiative at the American College of Gynecology, or ACOG. Together they review ACOG's algorithms for OB emergencies, which were developed specifically to treat pregnant and postpartum patients presenting to settings like the emergency department and urgent care.  For more, visit us at hippoed.com/ercast-audio and hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  After Shock with Dr. Rana Awdish 03.06.2026 35min

  After Dr. Rana Awdish published her bestselling medical memoir In Shock, about her own critical illness in the last months of her fellowship, it was translated into multiple languages and taught in medical schools all over the country. She became a leading voice in medicine and the patient experience.  But Rana's healing journey was far from over. In the aftermath of her prolonged hospitalizations, she found herself oddly estranged from her own body. She'd been conditioned by medicine to view sick bodies as broken objects, and so she turned outward for all her healing. But she soon realized this would not be enough. And when her own body warned her that she would be dead in five years, she was unsure whether to trust it.  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, Dr. Rana Awdish discusses these themes and more from her new book, After Shock: Learning to Reinhabit My Body After Illness. She and Dr. Neda Frayha discuss where and how healing actually occurs, how listening to her body's wisdom saved her life, and why our medical training provides us with only part of the story.   For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  The Mouth is a Black Box: Outpatient Dental Emergencies 06.05.2026 17min

  Most clinicians didn't learn enough about teeth (unless we're dentists). We may learn about every other body part in depth, but we're often ill-equipped to manage outpatient dental fractures and other injuries.  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Urgent Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast about managing dental fractures and other outpatient emergencies like a boss, no matter when the patient's dentist can see them. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Don't Get Rusty: Iron Deficiency Diagnosis and Workup 01.04.2026 18min

  "Game changer for sure. I've listened to it 3 times. Thank you!" This is just one of dozens of listener comments we received about the conversation you're about to hear. Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a fan-favorite conversation from our Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast about iron deficiency. It's incredibly common, often undiagnosed, easily treatable, and has a real impact on quality of life. This piece will change your practice. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts. To subscribe to Primary Care RAP to hear part 2 of this conversation, focusing on treatment of iron deficiency, visit hippoed.com/primarycare/rap.
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  Hives: You're Treating Them Wrong 04.03.2026 18min

  Even if you treat hives all the time, chances are you'll learn something totally new and helpful from this month's conversation. Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a discussion from our Urgent Care RAP podcast about the expert treatment of urticaria, with a little pop quiz to get the ball rolling. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Vaccine Preventable-Illnesses: Polio, Hib, Rotavirus 04.02.2026 19min

  There is a lot for frontline clinicians to navigate these days when it comes to vaccines. For many of us, old-school diseases that existed only in our medical textbooks or on our Boards are starting to show up in our practices. No matter our work setting, healthcare providers are under more pressure than ever to educate patients about vaccine-preventable illnesses, and to recognize and manage these diseases should they come through our doors. Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from a recent 5-part series on vaccine-preventable illnesses that aired on our Peds Reviews and Perspectives and PC Reviews and Perspectives podcasts. Drs. Sol Behar and Micaela Bowers cover polio, Hib, and rotavirus. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Elderhood with Dr. Louise Aronson 07.01.2026 36min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a favorite conversation from our new audio course, In Their Prime: A Geriatrics Audio Course. In this conversation, renowned geriatrician and bestselling author Dr. Louise Aronson discusses helpful tips and tools for successful visits with older adults, from language we should (and shouldn't) use to the most important questions we can ask to how to honor our patients' agency and life experiences. For more conversations like this one, visit us at hippoed.com/geriatrics-audio.
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  How to Spot and Stop Medical Scams 03.12.2025 17min

  Medical professionals are being targeted by scam artists in increasingly creative ways. Whether the phone call comes from a local government agency, court system, or medical licensing board, scammers are finding new, convincing ways to stoke panic in clinicians and then access their money. Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast with a physician who was targeted in an elaborate scam involving her local medical licensing board. She shares exactly what happened, along with specific tips for all clinicians on how to spot and stop medical scams. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  The Gunnar Esiason Story and the Human Side of Medical Breakthroughs 05.11.2025 31min

  Gunnar Esiason was two years old when he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. He spent lots of time in hospitals, and by the time he was in his 20s, he was really sick. His medical team was running out of options.  But then, when Gunnar was 27, he participated in a clinical trial that would change his life. The drug he received as a research participant made all of his cystic fibrosis symptoms disappear in a matter of days. And today, Gunnar is doing great. His Instagram bio actually reads, "Saved by science." How did this happen? What forces came together to allow this particular clinical trial to happen when it did, and to allow Gunnar to be a part of it?  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds—an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a live conversation that was held at the 2025 annual Gold Humanism Summit. We'll hear from both Gunnar Esiason as well as Dr. Kathy Reeves, a pediatric hospitalist and the CEO and President of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, about Gunnar's experiences with CF before and after treatment; the story behind the medicine that saved his life; what it's like to be a human research participant; and how clinicians can support and advocate for our patients to access medical breakthroughs. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Alpha-Gal Versus Meat 01.10.2025 19min

  Alpha-gal syndrome has been all over the news as cases are on the rise. Have you ever diagnosed alpha-gal allergy? Would you know what to look for? Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives (RAP) and Urgent Care Reviews and Perspectives (RAP) podcasts on everything front-line clinicians need to know about alpha-gal syndrome – presentation, timing, workup, management, and even lifestyle counseling (think: no more steaks). For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Shorter is Better (Usually) 03.09.2025 12min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a short and sweet conversation about the benefit of short and sweet antibiotic courses from our new product, The Right Script: An Antibiotic Stewardship Audio Course. With nearly a third of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the U.S. considered inappropriate and antibiotic resistance on the rise, it's more important than ever for front-line clinicians to be excellent antibiotic stewards. In this conversation, Dr. Matt DeLaney and Dr. Greg Moran break down why shorter is better in the world of antibiotic prescribing and why this is such a welcome change. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/abx-audio.
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  Misinformation is Winning. How Can We Take Back the Narrative? 06.08.2025 24min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a very special conversation with the current President of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Dr. Susan Kressly. With so much mistrust in medicine right now, and so many questions about the new composition of the ACIP and its impact on future availability and affordability of routine vaccines, Hippo Education podcast hosts Dr. Sol Behar and Dr. Neda Frayha interview Dr. Kressly about how to navigate various threats to the public trust in science-based health care. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Legal Lessons: Vital Signs are Vital 02.07.2025 23min

  One of the most stressful things a clinician can go through is a medical malpractice lawsuit. And all too often, no one talks about these cases.  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're bringing you a conversation from our Urgent Care RAP podcast about a real-life medical malpractice case, so that we can all learn from these tough experiences. We'll peel back the curtain to figure out what happened, what went wrong, and what we could do differently. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  IU-Doing This Right? Pain and Anxiety Management for IUD Placement 04.06.2025 23min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're digging into some life-changing strategies to manage pain and anxiety with IUD placement. Dr. Matt Zeitler, a full-spectrum Family Medicine physician and educator at UNC sits down with host Dr. Neda Frayha to explore new recommendations from the CDC, evidence based options for pain and anxiety management, and a toolkit of strategies to make our patients as comfortable as possible. The video demonstrating the tampon + lidocaine hack can be found here. Our blog post with helpful resources and a great table can be found here. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  How Much Do You Really Know About Diverticulitis? 07.05.2025 28min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. This month, we're sharing a pearl-packed conversation from ERcast on the most important updates in diverticulitis - a diagnosis that feels very bread-and-butter and yet actually has a lot of nuance to it. Should you order a CT? Should you prescribe antibiotics? EM physicians Dr. Matt DeLaney and Dr. Brit Long share tons of information here that any clinician in the ED, Urgent Care, or Primary Care setting should know. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  Measles Alert: Presentation, Management, and More 02.04.2025 19min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. In light of the current measles outbreak, we are bringing you a conversation from Hippo's Peds RAP podcast in which pediatricians Drs. Liza Mackintosh and Mike Cosimini review the most important things front-line clinicians need to know about measles. They cover the clinical presentation, testing protocols, and strategies for minimizing community spread. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts. Find our blog on measles, here: MMR Vaccines in the Time of Outbreak
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  Practical MHT Prescribing - You Can Do It! 05.03.2025 21min

  Welcome to Hippo Education Presents: The Monthly Rounds, an open door to the expert-led learning behind Hippo Education's podcasts. In this episode, Drs. Micaela Bowers and Neda Frayha from Hippo's Primary Care RAP podcast tackle a clinical topic that has gained a lot of attention lately: menopausal hormone therapy. MHT has had a bad rap for years, but it's time for clinicians to rethink what we were taught and feel confident prescribing MHT to the appropriate patients. Listen in as Micaela and Neda break down the who, when, why, and how of menopausal hormone therapy in an empowering way. For more, visit us at hippoed.com/podcasts.
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  OUD Decoded - Understanding the Opioid Epidemic 20.12.2024 28min

  The opioid epidemic is an ongoing crisis that devastates individuals and communities across the U.S. But did you know opioid use disorder dates back to the early 1800s? In this conversation, we'll explore the history of this public health issue and then shift focus to how clinicians and lawmakers can collaborate on harm reduction and effective treatment strategies for OUD. Explore Our Podcasts: hippoed.com/podcasts
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  OUD Decoded - What is Xylazine (aka "tranq")? 20.12.2024 29min

  Join Dr. Kelly Heidepriem and pharmacist Dr. Kyle Dvoracek as they dive into the growing concern around xylazine, also known as "Tranq," a potent substance increasingly being found in illicit drugs. In this discussion, they'll unpack the latest developments surrounding this dangerous drug, its effects on the body, and what clinicians need to know to recognize and respond to cases of xylazine exposure. From its rising prevalence to its impact on treatment protocols, this discussion offers essential insights for healthcare professionals navigating the complexities of this emerging threat. Explore Our Podcasts: hippoed.com/podcasts
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  OUD Decoded - The Rise of Fentanyl: Eli's Story 20.12.2024 31min

  Three months after Dr. Beth Weinstock's 20-year-old son, Eli, tragically died in 2021, the coroner revealed that his body contained both kratom, a legal herbal supplement, and fentanyl—something Eli never intended to ingest. His death highlights the deadly rise of fentanyl, which contributed to over 107,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. in 2022, with synthetic opioids like fentanyl involved in 67% of those cases. In this conversation, Dr. Sol Behar and Neda Frayha speak with Dr. Weinstock, a Family Medicine physician and founder of BirdieLight, to discuss Eli's story, the fentanyl crisis, and practical harm reduction strategies clinicians can use to prevent further loss. Explore Our Podcasts: hippoed.com/podcasts