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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.

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When No One's Watching

2026/04/15

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.

Dream Team

2026/03/11

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.

Of Trust, AI, and Green Beans

2026/02/25

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.

Autonomy vs. Equity

2026/01/21

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.

Who Can See Their PCP?

2025/12/29

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.

Raising a RUCkus

2025/12/10

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.

Doctor with a Capital D

2025/11/26

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.

Undervalued

2025/11/12

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.

If You Break It, They Won't Come

2025/11/05

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.

Misunderstandings

2025/10/29

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.

Can AI Solve Primary Care?

2025/10/22

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.

Alive and Kicking

2025/10/15

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.

Injured, Not Sidelined

2024/04/17

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.

Walking the Dog

2024/04/10

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.

Building Up without Breaking Down

2024/04/03

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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Jonathan1954 2026/01/24

Thank you

I’m a recently retired general internist in NYC who worked solo until 2015 before joining and relocating into a large network Thank you for the best a...

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Oberman MD 2024/03/22

Whatever It Takes

Incredibly moved by this episode and the bravery it took for Chris to share. Thank you so much for this episode.

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Dr. SXM 2023/03/26

The Essence of Good Medicine

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 t...

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Al P 1987 2023/03/04

Shekinah Elmore episode 1 interview

Thank you. I am inspired and informed for my journey.

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..smmm 2023/03/02

Shannon MacDonald MD

Wonderful podcast - refreshing - look forward to more stories

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