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.
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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Episodes
Oct 22, 2025
Can AI Solve Primary Care?
Oct 22, 2025
Oct 22, 2025
47 min
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.
Oct 15, 2025
Alive and Kicking
Oct 15, 2025
Oct 15, 2025
42 min
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.
Apr 17, 2024
Injured, Not Sidelined
Apr 17, 2024
Apr 17, 2024
39 min
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.
Apr 10, 2024
Walking the Dog
Apr 10, 2024
Apr 10, 2024
44 min
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.
Apr 3, 2024
Building Up without Breaking Down
Apr 3, 2024
Apr 3, 2024
44 min
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/
Mar 20, 2024
Whatever It Takes
Mar 20, 2024
Mar 20, 2024
32 min
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
Mar 13, 2024
Debt Et Cetera
Mar 13, 2024
Mar 13, 2024
38 min
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.
Mar 6, 2024
OK, Boomer
Mar 6, 2024
Mar 6, 2024
36 min
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.
Feb 21, 2024
Unions at the Tip of the Iceberg
Feb 21, 2024
Feb 21, 2024
37 min
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.
Feb 14, 2024
Tough Love
Feb 14, 2024
Feb 14, 2024
39 min
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.
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.


