Mapping Healthcare

Explore the transformative journey of Kenya’s free maternity care policy. We trace the policy’s evolution from the historic 2013 presidential directive to the modern Linda Jamii program. Why did hospital deliveries...

Remember those clanging pots for healthcare heroes? The gratitude has faded but the dangers are louder than ever. In this episode, we explore five hazards - biological, sharps, ergonomic, violent, and psychological...

How would you survive a critical emergency hundreds of miles from civilization? Retrieval medicine is a high-stakes flying ICU that brings medical expertise directly to a patient’s side. In this episode we trace the...

A mother dies from preventable causes related to pregnancy or childbirth every two minutes. We have the medical knowledge about what works to prevent these avoidable deaths. So why do they still occur? Explore the...

In rural counties most pharmacies are independently owned. When these rural pharmacies close, they don’t just leave a gap in healthcare, they affect a region's economy. Because who wants to move to a town where you...

In healthcare, we’re trained to move fast, to diagnose, treat, and fix. But what happens when we slow down just enough to ask a different question: What matters to you? In this episode, we reflect on how one simple...

Today we’re in a place where everybody knows your name, but also where the nearest specialist may be a three hour drive away. In a city, your physician is someone you may see a couple of times a year. In a rural area...

Healthcare faces urgent challenges. Rising complexity, widening inequities, burned-out clinical teams, and health systems stretched to their limits. But what if the biggest risk is playing it safe? Behind every...

About 40% of nurses say they plan to leave nursing in the next five years because of unmanageable stress, workload, and understaffing. There are scales to measure the health of a workplace that look at staffing...

Transitions of care from hospital to home are some of the riskiest moments in a person’s healthcare journey. Medication lists change, high‑risk medications require careful monitoring, and patients often deal with...

Ever wish you could skip noisy hospitals and heal in your own bed? We explore Hospital at Home, a game-changing model that brings acute care—from IV meds to 24/7 monitoring—directly to your living room. We trace how...

You're in a hospital. There’s a whirlwind of people in scrubs and white coats. It can be confusing trying to figure out who's who. Is that person a nurse, a respiratory therapist, a resident physician, a senior doctor...

How much of our inner world is shaped by the world around us? And does depression in Oslo feel the same as depression in Oklahoma City? The language we use to talk about our pain and even the pain itself can be deeply...

Antibiotic resistance is when bacteria evolve to withstand the medicines designed to kill them. About half the time that we use an antibiotic, it's not actually needed or is the wrong one for the job. That misuse is...

Behind so many children with complex medical needs there is an often invisible support system. The people we're talking about are family members of children with medical complexity. Pediatric neurodisability specialist...