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29 episodes
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Date created
2023/02/17
Latest episode
2026/01/21
Average duration
40 min.
Release period
49 days
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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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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/
Whatever It Takes
2024/03/20
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
Debt Et Cetera
2024/03/13
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.
OK, Boomer
2024/03/06
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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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...
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.
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...
Al P 1987 2023/03/04
Shekinah Elmore episode 1 interview
Thank you. I am inspired and informed for my journey.
..smmm 2023/03/02
Shannon MacDonald MD
Wonderful podcast - refreshing - look forward to more stories
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