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 transcribedMasks. 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...
Getting and staying healthy depends on more than just medical care. In some instances, a patient also needs legal services. What if doctors could “ref...
Earlier this week, Germany became one of the first countries to start easing COVID-19 restrictions. That’s because its initial response to the pandemi...
The coronavirus pandemic is impacting everyone, but the older you are, the more severe the health consequences. The recommendation is stay home, away...
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking unprecedented havoc around the globe. So many of us are searching for information to keep ourselves and our loved...
Ten years ago, it took a monumental effort to pass the ACA, or Obamacare. As a result, today, no American is denied health insurance because of a pre-...
Fear of a coronavirus epidemic is rippling through the country faster than the disease is spreading – and the U.S. health care system may be unprepare...
Nearly 700,000 Americans have died of AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic in the 1980s, and more than 1.1 million are living with HIV today. Adva...
More than 800 women die each day from complications related to pregnancy across the globe. Some of them bleed to death. Some of them develop infection...
