Clinical Conversations

From NEJM Journal Watch, this podcast features lively interviews, concise summaries, and expert commentary that busy clinicians need to stay current and improve patient care.

Podcast 298: COPD exacerbations — 7 days of antibiotics versus 2
Sep 2, 2022 – 14:08
Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat
Aug 19, 2022 – 17:28
Podcast 300: NADIM II trial offers “quite exciting” results in lung cancer
Aug 11, 2022 – 9:32
Podcast 299: Lung cancer and atezolizumab — results from the IMpower010 trial
Aug 9, 2022 – 14:58
Podcast 297: Forget about all that vitamin D testing!!
Jul 28, 2022 – 12:59
Podcast 296: A roundtable on the question, Why are young internists flocking to the hospitalist practice style?
Jul 20, 2022 – 29:38
Podcast 295: How should clinicians manage severe (but asymptomatic) carotid artery stenosis while awaiting CREST-2’s results?
Jul 6, 2022 – 15:45
Podcast 294: PD-1 blockade in locally advanced rectal cancer
Jun 29, 2022 – 13:08
Podcast 293: HER2-“low” breast cancer and its reponse to an antibody-drug conjugate
Jun 27, 2022 – 11:24
Podcast 292: Informed consent and apnea testing for death — or — What is death, anyway?
Jun 17, 2022 – 14:40
Podcast 291: Unionized nursing homes had lower mortality during Covid-19
May 24, 2022 – 13:16
Podcast 290: USPSTF’s new take on aspirin and primary prevention of CVD
May 8, 2022 – 14:33
Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose
May 4, 2022 – 16:22
Podcast 288: Following up with a Ukrainian narcologist
Apr 21, 2022 – 15:28
Podcast 287: Thinking about quality-of-life in migraine
Apr 10, 2022 – 13:58
Podcast 286: Talking about addiction treatment by candlelight from Ukraine’s Donetsk region
Mar 21, 2022 – 19:17
Podcast 285: GERD’s revised guidelines — an internist and a gastroenterologist discuss them.
Mar 11, 2022 – 23:44
Podcast 284: The clinical situation in Ukraine
Mar 8, 2022 – 19:53
Podcast 283: More data — this time from the U.K. — about post-Covid vaccination
Feb 22, 2022 – 10:42
Podcast 282: Vaccination after Covid-19 recovery prolongs natural immunity to reinfection
Feb 17, 2022 – 14:53
Podcast 281: Drug Costs — What’s “The Right Price” for prescription pharmaceuticals?
Feb 5, 2022 – 26:28
Podcast 280: MIS-C after Covid-19 in adolescents — can vaccination prevent it?
Jan 14, 2022 – 15:40
Podcast 279: Age-specific data do better than age-adjusted data in revealing health inequities
Sep 27, 2021 – 6:26
Podcast 278: Where equity and community health intersect — a conversation with Joseph Betancourt
Apr 27, 2021 – 16:40
Podcast 277: Race and clinical equity — know your patients — a conversation with Karen Dorsey Sheares
Apr 26, 2021 – 20:51
Podcast 276: Pay attention to the structural barriers that contribute to clinical inequity — Karol Watson
Apr 18, 2021 – 10:40
Podcast 275: Race and Clinical Equity — a Conversation with Dr. Kimberly Manning
Apr 11, 2021 – 20:12
Podcast 274: Preliminary Thoughts on the 2021 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference
Jan 18, 2021 – 18:30
Podcast 273: The journals and the pandemic — NEJM
Aug 29, 2020 – 18:56
Podcast 272: And now for something completely different… almost
Aug 8, 2020 – 9:35
Podcast 271: Checking back in with Florida — 4 months later
Aug 5, 2020 – 16:21
Podcast 270: Is healthcare privacy possible if “all data are health data”?
Jul 14, 2020 – 20:14
Podcast 269: The pandemic in Texas is like a “slow-rolling level 6 hurricane”
Jul 6, 2020 – 25:10
Podcast 268: Cannabis and road accidents — is there an association?
Jun 29, 2020 – 19:35
Podcast 267: Acute kidney injury in COVID-19 — how one New York system dealt with it
May 19, 2020 – 21:08
Podcast 266: Interferon and early treatment in COVID-19 bring good outcomes
May 10, 2020 – 13:46
Podcast 265: COVID-19 in skilled nursing facilities
May 1, 2020 – 16:46
Podcast 264: Is COVID-19 pushing MIs out of emergency departments?
Apr 20, 2020 – 14:57
Podcast 263: Checking in with Connecticut and Michigan on medicine after COVID-19
Apr 15, 2020 – 20:10
Podcast 257: Here comes the summer after COVID-19
Apr 6, 2020 – 17:49
Podcast 262: COVID-19’s larger lessons
Apr 1, 2020 – 12:02
Podcast 261: COVID-19 as a medical disaster
Mar 29, 2020 – 18:56
Podcast 260: Interview with a Broward County, Florida, emergency room physician
Mar 27, 2020 – 13:14
Podcast 259: A first-year resident tells us what he sees in the Covid-19 pandemic
Mar 25, 2020 – 12:38
Podcast 258 — One clinician’s experience of the early days of the COVID-19 epidemic in the U.S.
Mar 19, 2020 – 18:12
Podcast 256 — Anthony Fauci: Talking with patients about COVID-19
Mar 10, 2020 – 13:36
Podcast 255: Salt talks — transcript included
Mar 6, 2020 – 28:05
Podcast 254: Old malpractice liability strategies need rethinking
Feb 28, 2020 – 16:43
Podcast 253: Is a single-dose HPV vaccination effective?
Feb 21, 2020 – 15:38
Podcast 252: We revisit our chat about chatting about guns
Feb 13, 2020 – 18:49

Recent Reviews

MJH8

Great news and interviews!

This is a great way to get the week’s top medical news very succinctly, and Joe Elia’s conversations with researchers are highly educational and entertaining!
RoadWarrior2004

Decent

The interview titles and topics are very catchy. I think the interviewer for a non clinician is exceptionally bright and talented; however, a trained physician may probe the topic by asking more pertinent questions from a clinical perspective borne of experience.
ScalpPspriasis

I really enjoy Joe's voice

Why does he not do the Audio summaries; since the nature of the material is abstruse physicians might not accept him as legit, I like him, but I tried to figure out why you removed him from the audio summaries and I realize maybe it was because he isn't a physician. Joe Ilea (Ileo's) voice is very nice.; his voice is so pleasant.
nyhunter77

Is it coming back?

This is an awesome podcast, is it coming back for 2013?
jthanson

Great stuff

Great information! Personally I prefer the original title to "Clinical Conversations" but I can count on high quality review and information in this podcast on a weekly basis. I highly recommend it to any clinician interested in keeping abreast of the current literature.