The Dose is the Commonwealth Fund’s podcast that presents fresh ideas, new perspectives, and compelling conversations about where health care is headed. Join host Joel Bervell this season for conversations with leading and emerging experts in health care and health policy. Get the Dose in your inbox: https://thedose.show/signup
111 episodes transcribedAs a physician, researcher, and educator, Dr. Cheryl R. Clark wants her students to understand what vision, love, and equity can bring to health care...
In medical school, students learning about illness, pathology, and disease are trained almost exclusively on images of white patients. Even materials...
Montgomery, Alabama’s capital, is known as the birthplace of gynecology. It’s a brutal history, as the field’s “founding father,” J. Marion Sims, adv...
This year in the United States, an estimated 2 million people will receive a new cancer diagnosis, and a growing proportion will be younger adults and...
Overtreatment is a big problem in American health care. The proliferation of unnecessary medical tests and procedures not only harms patients but cost...
Health care is a $4.3 trillion business in the United States, accounting for 18 percent of the nation’s economy. It should come as no surprise then th...
Nearly one in five Americans has medical debt. Black households are disproportionately affected, carrying higher amounts of debt at higher rates. Ber...
Forty-four percent of U.S. women now live with some form of heart disease, a number that’s been climbing steadily over the past decade. And although...
Even though the U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of any developed country, federal programs that have been proven to improve maternal hea...
Research shows that Black women and other women of color experience the worst health outcomes of any group in the United States — regardless of incom...
This week on The Dose podcast, host Joel Bervell talks to Michelle Morse, New York City’s first-ever chief medical officer. Starting in her role at th...
On this week’s episode of The Dose, host Joel Bervell talks with Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford about obesity: its history, including the racist origins of...
On this week’s episode of The Dose, host Joel Bervell speaks with Dr. Ziad Obermeyer, from the University of California Berkeley’s School of Public He...
On this special season of The Dose, guest host Joel Bervell is hosting a series of conversations with experts and leaders in health equity. In examini...
Joel Bervell joins The Dose to host a special season examining equity in health care. Joel has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok...
The maternal mortality rate in the United States is more than double that of our peers – and it’s especially high among Black birthing people. Why? Th...
What people eat, where they live, and how much they earn can impact their overall health more than the medical care they receive — sometimes much more...
In post-Roe America, many women seeking abortions are treading on landmines, particularly in states where access is banned or severely restricted. On...
The midterm elections are around the corner, and health care is likely to be a major factor in how Americans vote. Abortion and reproductive health ac...
Bills targeting the rights of LGBTQ+ people are under consideration in state legislatures across the country. Many aim to make it more difficult for t...
