The Dose

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

The Dose is a health podcast hosted by The Commonwealth Fund, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

The Commonwealth Fund hosts The Dose, a health show with 100 episodes published.

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  Episode #5

  Doctor Mike on Why Ceding the Internet Is a Public Health Threat

  Apr 17, 202630 minS10

  <p>When people receive a medical diagnosis or experience a new symptom, the first thing many of us do is reach for our phone. If a doctor isn't available to provide an answer, someone else is.</p> <p>On The Dose podcast, host Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Dr. Mike Varshavski, a primary care physician with more than 30 million social media followers, about what it takes to fight health misinformation at scale, what health institutions still get wrong about social media, and why entertainment and education aren't opposites.</p> <p>Doctor Mike, as he's known, didn't set out to become a...

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  Episode #4

  In "Deep Care," the Family Is the Sun Midwives Orbit Around (feat. Dr. Kaytura Felix)

  Apr 10, 202629 minS10

  <p>Dr. Kaytura Felix didn't set out to document the Black maternal health crisis. She set out to find the people who are already doing something about it.</p> <p>On this episode of The Dose podcast, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Felix, founder of the Black Birthing Futures project, about what she discovered: a constellation of Black community midwives providing "deep care" — clinical, emotional, social, and spiritual support centered on care of the birthing family.</p> <p>"The family is the sun and all the providers are orbiting them," says Felix.</p> <p>But keeping the family at the ce...

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  Episode #3

  Fighting Medical Debt? There's an App for That (feat. Jared Walker)

  Apr 3, 202631 minS10

  <p>Four in 10 Americans have medical debt. Most don't know there's a federal law that could eliminate it.</p> <p>On this episode of The Dose podcast, host Joel Bervell talks with Jared Walker about his nonprofit, Dollar For, which has helped Americans erase more than $100 million in medical debt by connecting them to the charity care programs that hospitals are legally required to offer but rarely publicize.</p> <p>"These hospitals are great. They're saving people's lives every single day," says Walker. "The problem is that they're also ruining people's financial lives."</p> <p>With Medicaid cuts on the...

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  Episode #2

  The Missing Ingredient in Health Care AI? Community Voices

  Mar 27, 202634 minS10

  <p>Seventy billion dollars is flowing into health care AI, but the people building it and the patients who need it most are rarely in the same room.</p> <p>On this episode, host Dr. Joel Bervell talks with pediatrician, researcher, and tech optimist Dr. Ivor Horn about what responsible AI innovation in health care requires. Drawing on her work building open-access datasets and equity frameworks for machine learning, Horn says that rigorous research, community partnership, and critical thinking are not obstacles to the work of building powerful tools — they are the work.</p> <p>"If you build for the mo...

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  Lupita Nyong'o Is Done Accepting Fibroids as Normal

  Mar 20, 202628 minS10

  <p>Uterine fibroids may affect up to 80 percent of women in their lifetime, but they remain under-researched, underfunded, and routinely dismissed. Lupita Nyong'o is working to change that.</p> <p>"I could not believe that women were partially or wholly losing their reproductive organs because of this noncancerous tumor situation."</p> <p>On this episode, Dr. Joel Bervell talks with Academy Award–winning actor and activist Lupita Nyong'o about her own diagnosis, and her decision to share an MRI of her body while launching the Make Fibroids Count campaign with the Foundation for Women's Health.</p> <p>"I realized without re...

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