• Aging (Hear Arizona, KJZZ-FM) What it's like to grow old in Arizona.
• AMA Podcasts (AMA Moving Medicine, Making the Rounds, AMA Doc Talk)
• America Dissected (host Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, on Crooked Media)
• Anamnesis (MedPage Today) The story side of medicine. Personal stories from clinicians that baffle, delight, and might make you cry.
• AP Cardiology Andrew Perry, MD, hosts a cardiology podcast for internists, residents and medical students.
• An Arm and a Leg (A podcast about the high cost of health care, KHN)
• Armchair Expert Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
• Annals On Call (Annals of Internal Medicine)
• A Second Opinion Rethinking American Health with Senator Bill Frist, MD
• Aspen Ideas to Go
• Be a Powerful Patient (NPR) Two doctors share insider tips from the medical world to help you take control of your health care.
• Behind the Knife: The Surgery Podcast
• Bedside Rounds (host Dr. Adam Rodman)
• Ben Greenfield Fitness (for hardcore exercise junkies)
• Better Health While Aging
• BMJ Talk Medicine
• Broome Docs
• Business of Health Care (KWBU)
• Cancer.net (American Society of Clinical Oncology, or ASCO)
• Catching Health (Diane Atwood)
• Contagious Conversations (CDC Foundation)
• Conversations on Health Care Co-hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter lead in-depth discussions on health policy and innovation with industry newsmakers from around the globe.
• Diabetes Core Update Presenting and discussing the latest clinically relevant articles from American Diabetes Association's four scholarly journals, monthly.
• Don't Touch Your Face (APIC) Infection prevention.
• Dr. Death (Laura Beil, Wondery) A scary story about a charming surgeon, 33 patients, and a spineless system--about Christopher Duntsch, an accredited but incompetent Texas neurosurgeon who was convicted of gross malpractice after 31 of his patients were left seriously injured after surgery, and two others died during it. See also Laura Beil Dissects a Criminal Doctor’s Surgical Rampage (Rachel Zamzow, The Open Notebook, 1-22-19)
• EMCritRACC
• Empowered Patient (Karen Jagoda) A window into the latest innovations in digital health and the changing dynamic between doctors and patients
• Epidemic (Dr. Celine Gounder)
• Everyday Emergency (a podcast about Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres, bringing you true stories from people on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies across the world.
• Ethics Talk (AMA Journal of Ethics) Illuminating the Art of Medicine
• FOAMcast: An Emergency Medicine Podcast
• Food Sleuth Radio (KOPN via PRX and Pacifica) Melinda Hemmelgarn,interviews experts who connect the dots between food, health, and agriculture (30-minute format). See Food Sleuth Radio archives
• Fresh Air (Terry Gross, Why An ER Visit Can Cost So Much)
• The Future of Healthcare
• Healthcare Is Hilarious (Casey Quinlan, an advocate for more open access to one's own patient data).
• Health Literacy Out Loud Helen Osborne interviews those in-the-know about health literacy.
• Health Report (Dr. Norman Swan, Australia)
• Healthwatch (Medpage Today) Listen or read.
• Hidden Brain (NPR)
• The Hilarious World of Depression (John Moe, host, APM Podcasts) "Frank, moving, and, yes, funny conversations with top comedians who have dealt with this disease"
• The Impact (Vox-- a weekly narrative podcast about the consequences that laws have on real people's lives)
• Inside Health (BBC Radio 4) Dr Mark Porter demystifies health issues, clarifying fact from fiction on conflicting health advice, with GP Margaret McCartney
• Intelligent Medicine Dr. Ronald Hoffman on alternative/preventive medicine, integrative health, and natural healing.
• Invisibilia (entertaining stories that explore why we think, act and feel the way we do)
• Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts
• Kaiser Health News (KHN) podcasts
• Legends of Surgery
• Mayo Clinic Radio
• MJA (Medical Journal of Australia)
• NEJM This Week (Audio Summaries by the New England Journal of Medicine)
• Only Human (Mary Harris, host, WNYC)
• The People's Pharmacy (pharmacologist Joe Graedon and medical anthropologist Terry Graedon talk to experts about drugs, herbs, home remedies, vitamins and related health topics, NPR, North Carolina Public Radio)
• QUESTioning Medicine (produced by two residents, this podcast encourages healthy skepticism of medical convention, which arose from residents and hospitalists wondering why seemingly straightforward cases gave rise to so many varying opinions)
• Radio Health Journal
• RadioLab (WNYC, investigating a strange world)
• The Recommended Dose (with Dr. Ray Moynihan, produced by Cochrane Australia and co-published with the BMJ) In particular, try this one (interesting backstory on Cochran Collaborative) New is not always better; more is not always better; and so on.
• Reset (Vox) Every story is a tech story. We live in a world where algorithms drive our interests, scientists are re-engineering our food supply, and a robot may be your next boss.Every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday morning \Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores why — and how — tech is changing everything.
• Science Friday (Ira Flatow interviews guests on a range of subjects)
• A Second Opinion (Rethinking American Health with Senator Bill Frist, M.D.)
• Second Opinion (KCRW, an examination of medical ethics and the practioners who define them.)
• The Short Coat Podcast (A Podcast By Medical Students, For Medical Learners of All Kinds)
• TED Talks About Science and Medicine
• Think: Health (Jake Morcom and Cheyne Anderson, 2SER, Australia) Examines new thinking and new evidence from researchers and academics.
This Podcast Will Kill You Ecologists and epidemiologists Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke tackle a different infectious diseases each episode, from its history, to its biology, and finally, how scared you need to be.
• Track the Vax (MedPage Today) Listen or read.
• 2 Docs Talk (Medical Radio for Smart People, 15-minute podcasts about healthcare, the science of medicine, current issues in medicine and health policy, and everything in between--cohosts Kendall Britt and Amy Rogers, MDs)
• The Undifferentiated Medical Student
• The Weeds (Vox's podcast for politics and policy discussions). Every Tuesday and Friday, Matthew Yglesias is joined by Ezra Klein, Dara Lind, Jane Coaston and other Vox voices to dig into the weeds on important national issues, including healthcare, immigration, and housing.
• What the Health? (excellent Kaiser Health News podcasts about health news and policy, with Julie Rovner and journalists from the Times, Washington Post, Politico, and other news outlets)
• The Workaround (Side Effects Public Media) Stories of the difficult and sometimes shocking things people do to work around roadblocks in the U.S. healthcare system. On NPR's Shots program, for example, To Get Mental Health Help for a Child, Desperate Parents Relinquish Custody
Hat tips to Karen Brown, James Bullen, Joe Burns, Dave Rosenthal, Janice Lynch Schuster, Sue Treiman for suggesting some of these podcasts. Go here for a wonderfully full set of links from Covering Health, "Monitoring the pulse of health care journalism," from which I have borrowed liberally.