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
99 episodes transcribedViolence kills thousands of Americans each year and sends many more to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. Even though many people recover ph...
Living with the COVID-19 pandemic for a year, it’s hard to process the numbers. What we know is that nearly 500,000 Americans have lost their lives, a...
Almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. faces another health crisis – one of loneliness. Between lockdowns, social distancing, and the fear...
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States appears to have learned few lessons from its disastrous early response. Hasty lockdowns and bun...
COVID-19 brought the lives of college students to an abrupt standstill – being in a classroom, a dormitory, a dining hall table with friends became ri...
A new president doesn’t get four years to shape health care, he gets six months. And for President-elect Joe Biden, the most pressing health care issu...
President-elect Joe Biden says he is committed to strengthening the Affordable Care Act so that all Americans can get the health care they need. He al...
People who are incarcerated have complex health needs, and to make matters more complicated, prisons and jails have seen some of the worst COVID-19 ou...
Masks. Lockdowns. Shuttered businesses. Hospitals strained beyond capacity. Weary of the pandemic’s myriad disruptions to normal life, many Americans...
Americans are stressed about COVID-19 – both the disease and what it’s doing to the economy. And while the virus has touched every corner of the globe...
Health care is always important for voters, but this year, it is at the top of everyone's mind. The health needs and economic costs of COVID-19, and p...
Hospitals in the U.S. started preparing for COVID-19 as early as January, but it wasn’t until Italian doctors started tweeting in March that they had...
***Originally Aired Nov 2019*** Bias in medicine – based on race and sex – is a well-documented problem. It’s a problem because the health care syste...
***Originally Aired Feb 2020*** More than 800 women across the globe die each day from complications related to pregnancy. Some of them bleed to death...
***Originally Aired Oct 2019*** African American women die of pregnancy-related causes at three times the rate for white women, even after accounting...
When the pandemic hit, millions of Americans found themselves in a tight spot – practice social distancing to avoid COVID-19, but what if you have a h...
On June 12, the Trump administration eliminated federal protections against discrimination in health care for transgender people. This means that tran...
COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are climbing again, and data show that Black and Latinx Americans are contracting and dying of COVID-19 at higher rates tha...
Every day, primary care providers are on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, treating sick patients even as they worry about bringing the virus...
Health care is about so much more than medical tests or treatments. But, too often, health care providers forget to ask patients what they think would...
