Six podcasts on medicine, health care and medical misinformation

Emma Dibdin for The New York Times highlights six podcasts that aim to help listeners navigate soaring health insurance costs, confusing policy changes and medical misinformation by delivering expert knowledge about medicine and health care in America. The list includes: "This Podcast Will Kill You," launched in 2017 and hosted by epidemiologists Erin Welsh and Erin Allman, which combines personal stories with history, biology and epidemiology while debunking myths; "Bodies," a KCRW series from Allison Behringer that ran from 2018 to 2023 and focuses on how inequality shapes health through first‑person storytelling and investigative reporting; the "Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast," hosted by Dr.

David Puder, featuring conversations with clinicians about therapies, diagnoses and contested topics; "Sawbones," a decade‑old show with Dr. Sydnee McElroy and Justin McElroy that examines the history of misguided medicine with a comedic edge; "Emergency Medicine Cases," an educational round‑table podcast for clinicians that also explores the realities of emergency‑room work; and "The Pulse," a weekly WHYY show hosted by Maiken Scott that probes how the American health system operates and offers practical health advice.

The article recommends starter episodes for several shows and describes the group as encompassing storytelling, investigative journalism and practical tips for personal health.

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Health, Podcasts, Bodies, Sawbones, The Pulse, Emergency Medicine Cases