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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...

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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.

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English


Episodes
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Dream Team

3/11/2026
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 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514243.

Duration:00:45:43

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Of Trust, AI, and Green Beans

2/25/2026
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 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514241.

Duration:00:48:14

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Autonomy vs. Equity

1/21/2026
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 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514240.

Duration:00:42:30

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Who Can See Their PCP?

12/29/2025
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/10.1056/NEJMp2514239.

Duration:00:35:16

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Raising a RUCkus

12/10/2025
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.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514238.

Duration:00:40:41

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Doctor with a Capital D

11/26/2025
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 is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514237.

Duration:00:43:52

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Undervalued

11/12/2025
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 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514236.

Duration:00:35:22

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If You Break It, They Won't Come

11/5/2025
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 available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514235.

Duration:00:40:46

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Misunderstandings

10/29/2025
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 available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514234.

Duration:00:32:32

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Can AI Solve Primary Care?

10/22/2025
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 available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514233.

Duration:00:47:52

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Alive and Kicking

10/15/2025
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 episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514232.

Duration:00:42:36

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Injured, Not Sidelined

4/17/2024
This season finale examines the moral injury that the current U.S. health care system inflicts on physicians and trainees — and how they may be able to offer care that aligns with their values. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400700.

Duration:00:39:10

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Walking the Dog

4/10/2024
This episode considers what happens when the rigors of training and the pursuit of excellence in in medicine collide with the mental health needs of trainees. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400698.

Duration:00:44:52

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Building Up without Breaking Down

4/3/2024
This episode asks how medical educators should navigate between demanding intense commitment and hard-won excellence from trainees and seriously threatening their well-being. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400697. Source from this episode: https://www.culturalcomplications.com/

Duration:00:44:32

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Whatever It Takes

3/20/2024
This episode takes a sobering look at the mental health of U.S. medical students and trainees, in an era when the pressures can be intolerable but the culture still treats depression as weakness. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400696. Notes from this episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/11/nyregion/lorna-breen-suicide-coronavirus.html https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-management/physician-health/encourage-physicians-healing-make-it-ok-ask-help

Duration:00:32:54

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Debt Et Cetera

3/13/2024
In this episode, host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with two trainees whose lives and careers have been changed by educational debt, and to an economist who has a rather different take on the problem. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400695.

Duration:00:38:49

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OK, Boomer

3/6/2024
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with an expert on generational change and a member of the current trainee cohort about generational values and the need for cross-generational dialogue. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400693.

Duration:00:36:36

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Unions at the Tip of the Iceberg

2/21/2024
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum talks with physician trainees and a former residency program director to weigh the benefits and risks of the new wave of trainee unionization. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400692.

Duration:00:37:30

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Tough Love

2/14/2024
In this episode, a medical educator goes on the record with widespread but rarely publicly voiced concerns about the slippery slope from “wellness days” to inadequate medical training. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400690.

Duration:00:39:59

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Why We Work

2/7/2024
In this episode, Lisa Rosenbaum explores the shift in people’s perceptions of work’s role in our lives and its effects on medical training and the psychological satisfaction of physicians. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2400689.

Duration:00:40:45