First Opinion Podcast

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Will opioid settlement money actually go to opioid prevention? Here’s hoping

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Home health care is facing devastating ‘clawbacks’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The Supreme Court set public health back 50 years. The next term could be even worse

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Wheelchair users and Medicare disagree on what’s ‘primarily medical in nature’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How the Dobbs decision could affect how and where clinical trials are conducted

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Polio is back in the U.S. Two physicians offer ways to fight its spread

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A pediatric doctor on the life-or-death decisions some prospective parents must make

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A doctor with ALS laments the slow pace for drug approval

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid-19 is leaving millions of orphaned children behind

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The double standard of discipline between nurses and physicians

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The faces of Covid at 1 million deaths and counting

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Get sick, go to the doctor, incur debt, repeat

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How should doctors treat chronic pain in the wake of the opioid crisis?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Should gender dysphoria be a required stop en route to gender euphoria?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Tom Sequist on mirrored Covid tragedies — 2,000 miles apart

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Pharma companies market their drugs to young adults — so why don’t they include them in clinical trials?

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: The ‘underground market’ for insulin and diabetes supplies

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: How a scientist turns into a medical misinformant

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Burnout at the bedside is causing a crisis in nursing

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett, Theresa Gaffney, and Alissa Ambrose

Listen: Looking back on the first year of ‘First Opinion Podcast’

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A parent on advocating for people with autism who can’t advocate for themselves

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A public health expert passes on football’s full body collisions for youth

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Who owns your health data — and why you should care

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Revisiting: A medical historian on the deadly epidemics of the Civil War

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A resident physician on the Covid-stoked fire that burned him out