
Not Otherwise Specified
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.

Episodes
4 days ago
Raising a RUCkus
4 days ago
4 days ago
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.
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Doctor with a Capital D
Wednesday Nov 26, 2025
Wednesday Nov 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.
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Undervalued
Wednesday Nov 12, 2025
Wednesday Nov 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.
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
If You Break It, They Won't Come
Wednesday Nov 05, 2025
Wednesday Nov 05, 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.
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Misunderstandings
Wednesday Oct 29, 2025
Wednesday Oct 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.
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Can AI Solve Primary Care?
Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
Wednesday Oct 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.
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Alive and Kicking
Wednesday Oct 15, 2025
Wednesday Oct 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 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2514232.
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Injured, Not Sidelined
Wednesday Apr 17, 2024
Wednesday Apr 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.
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Walking the Dog
Wednesday Apr 10, 2024
Wednesday Apr 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.
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Building Up without Breaking Down
Wednesday Apr 03, 2024
Wednesday Apr 03, 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:
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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.
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