In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” Richard Rosenbaum, a neurologist and the uncle of host Lisa Rosenbaum, tells the story of his own progressive neurologic disease and considers his coping mechanisms and the care he has received. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301938.

“Not Otherwise Specified” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Marcella Alsan about her winding career path and her studies on medical mistrust, racial concordance between physicians and patients, and their effects on deeply entrenched health inequities. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301937.

“Not Otherwise Specified” host Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Ziad Obermeyer about his trailblazing work in the application of machine learning to population health, the fraught problems it seeks to solve, and its lessons for critical aspects of clinical care. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301936.

In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” Lisa Rosenbaum talks with Meghan O’Rourke, author of The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, about her journalistic investigation of her own illness, trust in health care, and how cultural narratives affect our experiences of illness. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301935.

In this episode of “Not Otherwise Specified,” physician-scientist and entrepreneur Ethan Weiss joins Lisa Rosenbaum to discuss perverse incentives in academic medicine, the risks of life as a self-appointed expert on social media, and his family’s ongoing debate over gene editing. A full transcript of this episode is available at nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2301934.