Episodes

  • No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson and Johnson
    Feb 26 2026

    Investigative journalist Gardiner Harris joins us to talk about No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, an explosive expose of an organization whose image as a ""child-friendly" baby company" contrasts against "reams of evidence showing decades of deceitful and dangerous corporate practices that have threatened the lives of millions."

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    52 mins
  • Trust and Betrayal
    Feb 12 2026

    Our news feeds are rife with stories of betrayal, and as physicians, many of those stories feel shockingly familiar. We outline three levels of moral injury that can follow betrayal and offer strategies to prevent and mitigate that harm.

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    30 mins
  • Negotiate your contract!
    Jan 29 2026

    New job? Congrats! Now go read the fine print in your contract. Carefully. Lawyer Dennis Hursh shares his decades of history and experience negotiating - or re-negotiating - physician contracts.

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    36 mins
  • Walt Bogdanich on Why Big Business and Medicine Don't Mix
    Jan 15 2026

    Legendary investigative journalist and NYT reporter Walt Bogdanich (When McKinsey Comes to Town) joins us to talk about his recent article "How Private Equity Oversees the Ethics of Drug Research" and the broader impacts of what happens when outside financial firms influence internal business operations.

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    41 mins
  • Goodbye 2025, Hello 2026!
    Jan 1 2026

    New year, new beginnings. We covered a lot of ground last year and we're going to keep up the pressure and keep fighting the good fight. Wendy and Matt discuss what and who they appreciated about last year's episodes, and what they're looking forward to in 2026.

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    32 mins
  • The Fall of Crozer Health, Part 6: Eight Months Later
    Dec 22 2025
    Eight months ago, we followed along as Prospect Medical shuttered Crozer Health. In this episode, as promised, several of the doctors, nurses, medical assistants, elected officials and public servants we spoke to initially tell us how they have fared since. A few themes emerged: the unexpected domino effects when a hospital closes, the importance of community, trust, and transparency, the mismatch between healthcare executives in pursuit of profit and medical professionals in pursuit of public service (and the moral injury that results), and their relentless commitment to and hope for the community they served.
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    46 mins
  • Teaser: The Fall of Crozer Health, Part 6
    Dec 18 2025

    We promised to follow up on The Fall of Crozer Health and we'll drop our full episode on Monday. For anyone thinking of selling to private equity, you won't want to miss this.

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    2 mins
  • Dialysis in the US: Blood, Death, and Dollars
    Dec 4 2025

    Was dialysis the canary in medicine's coal mine of corporatization, as neoliberalism took hold in the US? Tom Mueller, journalist and author of "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine", joins us to talk about how dialysis became a "microcosm of American medicine" and what we can do to fix it.

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    52 mins