Shows
FAIR News WeeklyA Call to Return to Core Medical PrinciplesFAIR News Weekly | 2/14/25🔹A Call to Return to Core Medical Principles (FAIR in Medicine Director Nikki M. Johnson, MD, DNBPAS for FAIR Substack) 🔹DEI made diversity a dirty word; But the concept made America great (FAIR Executive Director Monica Harris for Fox News Opinions) 🔹Now Did Politics Get So Dumb? We're Surrounded By Idiots (w/ Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Robert George)Read these and more on FAIR’s Substack.FAIR Weekly Roundup 2/9/2025: https://news.fairforall.org/p/weekly-roundup-916Support FAI...
2025-02-1405 minFAIR News WeeklyKing County Jail Whistleblower Comes ForwardFAIR News Weekly | 12/20/24🔹King County Jail Whistleblower Comes Forward (FAIR Director in Medicine Nikki M. Johnson, MD, DNBPAS) 🔹Is there a right to die? Don’t look to liberals for an answer (FAIR Advisor Shadi Hamid for Washington Post) 🔹Eradicating Consideration of Race in Technology, AI Innovation, and Beyond (FAIR Advisor Erec Smith for the Cato Institute)Read these and more on FAIR’s Substack.FAIR Weekly Roundup 12/15/2024: https://news.fairforall.org/p/weekly-roundup-644Support us with a year-end donation to F...
2024-12-2006 min
You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist137. The Crisis in Pediatric Care: Dr. Nikki Johnson on Medical Ethics & Patient AdvocacyMy guest today is Dr. Nikki Johnson, a former pediatrician and co-director of FAIR in Medicine. We dive deep into the challenges parents face in finding trustworthy medical providers for their children and the broader implications of the current healthcare system. Dr. Nikki shares her journey through medical training and her eventual departure from clinical practice due to ethical concerns and the corporatization of medicine.We discuss the concept of perverse incentives in healthcare, particularly how insurance reimbursement structures can compromise the quality of care. Dr. Nikki highlights the shift in focus from patient-centered...
2024-11-251h 24
The People's PharmacyShow 1184: How Technology Could Make Medicine More HumaneMarvelous technology like CT and MRI imaging, genotyping and microbiome analysis have given health professionals more power than ever to learn what is going wrong with an individual. Special tools like robotic surgery can help doctors treat complex problems. Highly advanced prosthetics can help people recover from devastating accidents or radical operations.
Problems with Technology:
However, both physicians and patients are often unhappy with the dominance of computers in healthcare today. Doctors feel like data clerks, and patients do not feel like their doctors are listening to them or really caring for them. Is there...
2019-10-1056 min