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Apr 15, 2026
Apr 15, 2026
1hr 43 sec
In the final NOS episode of the season, host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests elucidate the quiet beauty of good primary care and consider how to induce the U.S. health care system to prize it more highly.
A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514244.
Mar 11, 2026
Mar 11, 2026
45 min
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.
Feb 25, 2026
Feb 25, 2026
48 min
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.
Jan 21, 2026
Jan 21, 2026
42 min
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.
Dec 29, 2025
Dec 29, 2025
35 min
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.
Dec 10, 2025
Dec 10, 2025
40 min
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.
Nov 26, 2025
Nov 26, 2025
43 min
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.
Nov 12, 2025
Nov 12, 2025
35 min
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.
Nov 5, 2025
Nov 5, 2025
40 min
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.
Oct 29, 2025
Oct 29, 2025
32 min
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.
About the Host
Lisa Rosenbaum, M.D., is the host of the NEJM podcast “Not Otherwise Specified.” Lisa is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a national correspondent for NEJM. She typically writes about the intersections of medicine and society, covering a broad array of topics ranging from conflicts of interest in medicine to the care of patients with severe mental illness. Her work at NEJM has allowed her to hear the stories of some of medicine’s most creative thinkers, and she is excited to have an opportunity to bring some of those stories to others as well.