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Not Otherwise Specified

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  • When No One's Watching

    April 15, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

    In the final NOS episode of the season, host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests elucidate the quiet beauty of good primary care and consider how to induce the U.S. health care system to prize it more highly. A full transcript of this episode…

  • Dream Team

    March 11, 2026 · 46 min

    If the future of primary care lies in teams, what makes a team and how should it function? NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider the possibilities of team-based care. A full transcript of this episode is available at…

  • Of Trust, AI, and Green Beans

    February 25, 2026 · 48 min

    NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests discuss the extent to which online influencers and AI could someday substitute for trustworthy, caring, broad-spectrum family doctors. A full transcript of this episode is available at…

  • Autonomy vs. Equity

    January 21, 2026 · 43 min

    With increasing numbers of PCPs leaving traditional practice for concierge medicine or direct primary care, NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests explore the promise and perils. A full transcript of this episode is available at…

  • Who Can See Their PCP?

    December 29, 2025 · 35 min

    NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider what should be done to make primary care more accessible to the patients who need it most? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/…

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  • Raising a RUCkus

    December 10, 2025 · 41 min

    NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests dissect the common notion that the key to improving the primary care system is simply increasing reimbursement. A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.o…

  • Doctor with a Capital D

    November 26, 2025 · 44 min

    NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests lay bare the joys and rewards of full-spectrum primary care practice and consider ways of stoking students’ passion, and strengthening their ability, to pursue it. A full transcript of this episode…

  • Undervalued

    November 12, 2025 · 35 min

    Podcast host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests examine the value system of American medicine and the systematic denigration of primary care that creates a dangerous vicious cycle. A full transcript of this episode is available at…

  • If You Break It, They Won't Come

    November 5, 2025 · 41 min

    NOS host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests explore the fraught relationship between medical training and primary care — and why even trainees who once aspired to be PCPs are changing course midstream. A full transcript of this episode is…

  • Misunderstandings

    October 29, 2025 · 33 min

    In this episode of NOS, Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests consider the ideals and realities of primary care — and the expectations and misunderstandings that are contributing to its current crisis. A full transcript of this episode is…

  • Can AI Solve Primary Care?

    October 22, 2025 · 48 min

    Podcast host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Steven Lin, a Stanford PCP and AI implementation expert, about the promise and perils of AI and its limits as a solution to the forever crisis of primary care.  A full transcript of this episode is…

  • Alive and Kicking

    October 15, 2025 · 43 min

    In the first podcast episode of NOS Season 3, "The Forever Crisis of Primary Care," Lisa Rosenbaum talks with primary care guru Asaf Bitton about the vast values gap between patients and the health care system.  A full transcript of this…

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About the show

In “Not Otherwise Specified,” Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, cardiologist and national correspondent for the New England Journal of Medicine, defies our sound-bite culture to go deep with some of medicine’s most innovative thinkers. Her guests’ stories and ideas about health care’s toughest challenges and greatest promise may change the way you think about medicine, health, and society.