Best Raghav Goyal Podcasts (2025)

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The 3AM Show Episode 9: How I Dealt With Depression, Finding Love, Freedom, and Yourself with William Sidwick 42:34

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What does it mean to follow what truly resonates? In this deeply intimate conversation, I sit down with William Sidwick, founder of Follow What Resonates, to explore what it really means to find yourself, to love deeply, and to live in alignment with truth. William opens up about his journey from years of struggle and silence to inner freedom, how …

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The 3AM Show Episode 8: It starts with Junior Ogunyemi, training 100,00 entrepreneurs, public speaker, author and lessons in resilience and purpose 41:37

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In this episode of The 3AM Show, Raghav sits down with Junior Ogunyemi — From writing his first book, How to Be a Student Entrepreneur, at just 21, to training over 100,000 young founders across the world, Junior shares raw lessons on resilience, purpose, and the mindset that separates dreamers from doers.In this episode of The 3AM Show, I sit down…

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The 3AM Show: Episode 7 — The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Lessons from Silicon Valley’s Toughest Minds 10:02

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Ever wondered what it really takes to build something extraordinary, when everything around you is falling apart? In this episode of The 3 AM Show, I break down the raw and unfiltered lessons from Ben Horowitz’s legendary book The Hard Thing About Hard Things. We talk about anxiety, leadership under chaos, what “The Struggle” truly means, and how t…

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The 3AM Show: 🎙️ Episode 6 – “Is Overthinking Actually Good for You?” 7:22

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We’ve all been told that overthinking is bad — but is it always? In this episode of The 3AM Show, Raghav explores the fine line between destructive worry and thoughtful reflection. From the story of Ronald Wayne, who sold 10% of Apple for just $850, to a man who worried himself into an early grave, we uncover how our thoughts can either shape our s…

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The 3AM Show Episode 5: How to read other people? The Power of Body Language & Silent Signals. 12:08

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In Episode 5 of The 3AM Show, Raghav dives into the fascinating world of body language — inspired by the book What Every Body Is Saying by former FBI agent Joe Navarro. We explore why learning to “read the room” matters in every part of life whether you’re an entrepreneur, a student, a teacher, a public speaker, or sitting at a poker table. You’ll …

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The 3AM Show Episode 4: Instant Gratification, Delusion & the Right Mindset 8:39

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Episode 4 of The 3AM Show is a late-night conversation about what really gets in the way of long-term success: the lure of instant gratification, mistaking activity for progress, and outsourcing your emotional stability to others. Raghav shares research-backed lessons, personal examples from his London years, and five practical micro-habits to rewi…

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The 3AM Show Episode 3: It starts with Jaqi Lam(Creative marketing agency, Loneliness, Transitioning into Career after Uni) 36:33

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In this first guest episode of The 3AM Show, Raghav sits down with his friend and fellow University of Westminster alum Jaqi Lam — born and raised in Slovakia, a media graduate, master’s student in Barcelona, and now the founder of a creative marketing agency. Together, they dive into: Growing up between cultures and finding your identity Moving co…

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The 3 am show Episode 2: Dealing with Rejection, Transitioning from School to College, and Self-Improvement 8:11

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In this episode, I open up about one of the toughest chapters of my life, from navigating the emotional ups and downs of the COVID-19 lockdown to losing my grandparents, facing rejection from all the universities I applied to, and struggling to find purpose when everything felt uncertain. I share my story of moving from school to college, getting r…

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The 3 am show: It starts with Raghav Goyal, Your 3 a.m. companion for self-growth, healing and big ideas 8:07

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The 3 AM Show is a raw and unfiltered late-night podcast where I (Raghav Goyal) open up about the real stories behind resilience, self-help and creative entrepreneurship. Born from my own nights of insomnia, bullying, trauma and feeling lost, this show explores how we rebuild ourselves, find purpose and turn pain into possibility. Each episode dive…

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[Trailer] Introducing Hope is a Talent! 8:37

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Dear Social Medicine On Air community! We are incredibly excited to share with you our new project, Hope is a Talent, a podcast exploring the intersection of health and Palestine. Our first three episodes can all be found here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hope-is-a-talent We have more interviews and work lined up and are excited to shar…

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[UNEDITED] Hope is a Talent - 1 | Testimony from Northern Gaza 1:19:10

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This is the companion piece to the first episode of our new series, Hope is a Talent. This is the unedited audio journal shared to us from our colleague in northern Gaza, Amro Hamadda between the months of November 2023 through March 2024. He is an inspiration to us, and his voice is a guide. We are unendingly grateful for him taking the time to re…

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Hope is a Talent - 1 | Testimony from Northern Gaza 1:06:02

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Welcome to a new series we are working on -- Hope is a Talent -- in which we examine the terrifying and bloody shoreline that has formed between healthcare and Palestine. This is the edited and editorialized episode from the beautiful and compelling audio diaries shared to us from Amro Hamadda, a medical student who is currently living and survivin…

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28 | Glocalization: Mobilize Locally to Act Globally | Claudio Schuftan 1:17:42

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Claudio Schuftan, MD joins us today to discuss how human rights problems today have solutions, but priorities are determined by politics. It includes a review of Salvador Allende and Latin American social medicine history, the People's Health Movement and International People's Health University, corporate capture of the World Health Organization, …

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27 | Why American Medical Education Is So Bad | Beyond Flexner Alliance 58:15

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Isabel Chen and Jamar Slocum join us to discuss the history of American medical education and how its evolution has maintained injustice. They speak about prestige, research dollars, medical school rankings, race, admissions, wealth and power, health disparities, and the long shadow of the 1910 Flexner Report that laid the foundation of the current…

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26 | Grounding Communication in Equity | Dr. Anne Marie Liebel 47:57

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SMOA Survey: bit.ly/SMOAsurvey In what ways do our personal biases seep into our conversations with others? How does the structure of our language impact the reception of the information we are trying to share? In the era of digital medicine and health misinformation, how can we ensure we are communicating effectively with our patients? Anne Marie …

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25 | Deep Medicine | Rupa Marya & Raj Patel 54:23

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SMOA Survey: bit.ly/SMOAsurvey Raj Patel and Rupa Marya join on this episode to draw the links between physical inflammation, injustice, decolonizing medicine, and the relationship between human and non-human flourishing. They discuss environmental racism, political economy and capitalism, the way that inflammation modulates social and biological h…

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Group Meditations: It Takes a Village 50:45

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Link to SMOA listener survey: bit.ly/SMOAsurvey For the very first time (!), we have the ENTIRE SMOA team here to address the question: “Are you exempt from social justice work when you’re off the clock?” This week’s episode is dedicated to Nath Clarke and their legacy of activism. In honor of Nath’s work, all donations to this GoFundMe will go to …

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24 | Resisting Domestic, Market, and State Violence | Anna Mullany 58:49

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Content warning: today's episode discusses domestic violence. We also appreciate your patience with this episode as we know it is a few weeks behind our usual schedule! Thank you all for your support. Short SMOA listener story: bit.ly/smoasurvey In this episode, Anna Mullany discusses the interrelationship between domestic abuse, capitalism and pol…

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23 | Good Systems Save Lives | Agnes Binagwaho 52:50

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Link to SMOA listener survey: bit.ly/SMOAsurvey We're joined today by the incredible Agnes Binagwaho, who speaks with us about gender equity and religion before, during, and after the colonial era, the positive power of institutions like the University of Global Health Equity, the importance of teaching leadership and implementation science, and th…

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Sunday Meditations: Trusting Transitions, Not Postponing Joy, and the Racialization of Wellness 59:52

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Hello SMOA family! We are trying something new! In addition to our bi-weekly podcast releases (which we attempt to keep evergreen and not overly current), we are going to try recording some sessions with just the SMOA team responding to the world and what is on our minds. We begin with a guided meditation, then kinda just let the ramble ramble. Joi…

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22 | Nursing as Radical Solidarity During the Honduran Coup | Adrienne Pine 1:02:59

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Self-described "militant anthropologist" Professor Adrienne Pine speaks with us today about the 2009 coup in Honduras. We discuss the Washington Consensus, hybrid wars, embodied somatic solidarity, and explore the role that nurses played as agents of change and healing during the coup in 2009. Dr. Pine also shares her own journey with us, and talks…

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Sunday Morning Meditations: Gaslighting, Palestine, and the Politics of Self-Care 55:26

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Hello SMOA family! We are trying something new! In addition to our bi-weekly podcast releases (which we attempt to keep evergreen and not overly current), we are going to try recording some sessions with just the SMOA team responding to the world. We begin with a guided meditation, then kinda just let the ramble ramble. Join us to hear Jonas talk a…

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21 | Birthing Black Freedom: A Midwife Fighting Structural Racism and -isms | Jamarah Amani 1:16:31

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(Short Audience Survey: bit.ly/SMOAsurvey) Jamarah Amani (@jamarahAA) shares how her work and activism as a midwife fights racism and injustice. She shares her own birth story and ancestors, the racial violence in the history of birth in the United States, obstetric violence, the Birth Justice Bill of Rights, health disparities, community members a…

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[unproduced audio] Liberation and Implementation on the Ground: HeaLTh 2021 Panel 3 with Phifer Nicholson, Eddy Eustache, Lanny Smith, Christophe Millien 50:29

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On April 10th, 2021, there was a student-led symposium on the topic of Health & Liberation Theologies (HeaLTh 2021). This is the raw audio of Panel 3 of that event, on the topic of Health Systems, Equity, & Theology, moderated by Phifer Nicholson and featuring Eddy Eustache, Lanny Smith, and Christophe Millien.…

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Season 1 Finale: Lessons, Joys, and What's Next? 21:37

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Huge thanks to all our listeners for supporting us through a successful first season of Social Medicine On Air! Tune in to hear Jonas, Brendan, and Raghav chat about what they learned in the last year, and what they are working on next. The team is hard at work on Season 2, with a whole new team of faces and personalities, and we absolutely cannot …

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20 | Indigenous Sovereignty In Health Systems | Cole Allick 59:21

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Cole Allick joins us today to talk about tribal healthcare in the United States, how to pursue Indigenous sovereignty in health systems, and changing narratives about Indigenous life and history. He shares about the I-T-U (Indian Health Service, Tribally-run, and urban) system of healthcare delivery, Indigenous renaissance, underfunding and creativ…

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19 | Fenced In Chios: Refugee Health and the Cruelty of Deterrence | Apostolos Veizis 54:23

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Apostolos Veizis (@AVeizis) offers a medical view from the frontlines of the ongoing refugee crisis, which as he explains, is not so much a "refugee crisis" as a crisis of logistics and lack of political will. We discuss the mental and physical health effects of life in overcrowded camps (in this case in the Greek islands), how these conditions are…

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18 | Dance, Healing, Justice | Shilpa Darivemula 59:23

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Shilpa Darivemula discusses the connection between traditional dance, medicine, trauma, and healing. She explains the way that traditional dance allows renarration of identity, how classical Indian dance can tell non-traditional stories, how pairing medicine and dance addresses inequities, the danger of instrumentalizing art, and how medical enviro…

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17 | Two-Eyed Sight: Indigenous Science, Existence, and Planetary Health | Nicole Redvers 1:02:00

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Nicole Redvers (@DrNicoleRedvers) joins us to speak about Indigenous ways of knowing, the necessity for protecting Indigenous lands and ways of life, and the necessity for integration of traditional knowledge and Western science in the pursuit of human and planetary health. She discusses the need for truth-telling and reconciliation; how Indigenous…

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16 | Epistemic Violence, Coloniality, and Reparations | Eugene Richardson 56:14

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Eugene Richardson (@real_ironist) joins us to discuss how global public health continues to use colonial frameworks for understanding health and disease, including for COVID-19 and Ebola modeling, and the need for reparations for health equity. He discusses how desocialized statistics support an unjust status quo, and how better forms of knowing ca…

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BONUS: Osama Tanous on History, Zionism, and "Othering" 12:09

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Important content that didn't make it into the hour-long episode. Listen to Osama Tanous discuss the danger of "othering," the history of the idea of Zionism, the challenges of talking about Palestine, and more.

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15 | The Long War: Settler Colonialism and Health in Israel-Palestine | Osama Tanous 1:06:38

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Osama Tanous joins us to speak of the medical impacts of life in the long occupation of Palestine. We discuss what 'settler colonialism' is, the challenge of apolitical 'humanitarian' approaches, the political-medical-historical-economic connection, and the way that Palestine exemplifies the medical effects of structural violence. Osama Tanous MD i…

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14 | Mental Health, Individualism, and the Economy | "It's Not Just In Your Head" 56:50

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Podcast crossover episode! Harriet and Max, hosts of the "It's Not Just In Your Head" podcast, join us today to discuss mental health, how capitalism accelerates inequality and social breakdown, and how most approaches to mental health care support neoliberal individualism. They explain the connection between personal and social liberation, our nee…

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BONUS: Howard Waizkin Interviews Jonas and Brendan 37:37

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Curious about the hosts of the show? First, listen to Howard Waitzkin's episode from last week, then catch him here turning the tables on the hosts. We discuss our backgrounds, imposter syndrome, our paths to medicine, class, priviledge, accompaniment, spirituality, liberation theology, and the roots of social medicine in South America. Resources r…

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13 | Life Beyond Capitalism? | Howard Waitzkin 1:09:55

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Howard Waitzkin speaks with us today about reimagining life and medicine after capitalism. A humble giant in the field of social medicine, Howard helps to unpack how capitalism is destructive for the earth, for healthcare systems, and for social life. How can individuals and communities work towards non-violent, "rinky-dink" action against the syst…

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12 | Accountability and Advocacy in Global Health Financing | Leena Yumeen and Maria Pennella 50:33

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Today we hear from Leena Yumeen and Maria Pennella, and discuss the importance of accountability in global health funding. They explain the importance of advocacy in influencing these systems and, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of not backsliding on the fight against global killers like tuberculosis. Leena Yumeen is an Advocacy Fellow…

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11 | Narrative Therapy and Liberation | Tanvi Avasthi 1:16:15

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Tanvi Avasthi (@tanvicious) speaks with us today about narrative therapy, loss and trauma, and the power of asking "what do you want?" to recenter our patients as protagonists of their own lives. She explains how we can avoid pathologizing our patients and ourselves, and how we can resist the forces of white supremacy and capitalism which are attem…

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10 | Mobilizing Medicine Against the Climate Crisis | Harleen Marwah 50:48

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Harleen Marwah (@ThereGoesHarMar) dives into the conversation on the links between health, healing, and the climate crisis - and how people in healthcare can work for a healthier world. Recorded in the midst of the record-setting 2020 California fires, we discuss the health effects of a climate in crisis, climate grief, connecting clinical work wit…

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9 | Teenage Motherhood and HIV | Sasheenie Moodley 54:31

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Sasheenie Moodley (@SasheenieM) discusses the complexities of teenage motherhood, HIV, family dynamics, and navigating poverty in the townships of her native South Africa. She explains dynamics of familial expectation and young mothers being "hidden away," how one reveals HIV or pregnancy status, dreams of future success, and her experience doing r…

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8 | Medical Ethics During A Pandemic | Tim Lahey 1:09:53

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Tim Lahey (@TimLaheyMD) joins us today to discuss medical ethics during a pandemic and states of emergency, and questions of allocation, ventilator scarcity, and systemic injustice. We also talk about medical education, justice, power and privilege, collaboration towards institutional change, vocation, and the temptations of pride and righteous ang…

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7 | Medical Activism | Andrew Goldstein 1:00:42

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Andrew Goldstein discusses his experience of activism and medicine. We discuss how he first stepped into activism, the challenges of non-profit work, how healthcare workers can get involved in organizing, leader-full movements, the temptations of professional "success," and the dangers of waiting until the "right moment" to begin this work. Andrew …

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6 | Decolonizing Global Health | Laura Mkumba 56:39

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Laura Mkumba discusses the colonial history of the field of global health and the necessity of decolonizing global health. We consider how proximity to whiteness, maternal-fetal outcomes, global health work and education, privilege, and our thoughts all reflect histories of coloniality. Laura Mkumba (@laura_mkumba) is a native of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tan…

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5 | The Social Construction of Knowledge | Ruth Staus 1:01:56

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Ruth Staus discusses the necessity of the social sciences in the medical field, the "scientific" foundations of race, teaching, trauma, and her clinical work with her unhoused patients. Dr. Ruth Staus DNP, APRN, ANP-BC is a professor of nursing, global health and social medicine who has been practicing community-based primary care as a nurse practi…

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4 | Is Global Health Just a "Charitable Hobby"? | Hugo Flores 53:57

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Hugo Flores teaches us about the moral imperatives of providing healthcare. By tackling the persistent myths and mistakes of global health work, he shows how folks from diverse backgrounds can come together to fight for health systems "good enough for your grandmother." Hugo Flores MD is a physician who founded and leads Compañeros En Salud, a Part…

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1 | What is Social Medicine? | Michael Westerhaus 57:38

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Michael Westerhaus (@socmedmjw) teaches the history of social medicine and what social medicine means. He explains the difference between social medicine and public health, the value of storytelling and social position in medicine, the relationship between inequality and health, and addresses if it is right for healthcare practitioners to "get poli…

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2 | Antiracist Medicine | Michelle Morse 56:04

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Michelle Morse (@michellemorse) discusses race and antiracism in medicine. Beginning with Camara Jones' metaphor of the Gardener's Tale, she helps to imagine how medicine can work for the good of all and how medicine can move past its entanglements with racist ways of thinking and acting. Michelle Morse MD MPH is a physician, organizer, and social …

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3 | Neoliberalism and Health | Tinashe Goronga 49:09

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Tinashe Goronga (@tisaneg) discusses the impact of neoliberal policies on health outcomes. After describing what neoliberalism is and how it works, he connects how his patients' lives in Zimbabwe are influenced by these international and national systems. Tinashe Goronga MD MPH is a physician from Zimbabwe who most recently served as General Medica…

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Trailer | Welcome to Social Medicine On Air! 4:13

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Welcome to Social Medicine On Air, a podcast where we explore the field of social medicine with healthcare practitioners, activists, and researchers. Social medicine hopes to work for a world of justice and health - especially for the most marginalized - and connects clinical care to the deep causes of health and illness. Through our conversational…