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Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities

Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities

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In the medical world, I'm an internist and primary care doctor at Johns Hopkins. I see patients, do research on decision-making, uncertainty, and patient-doctor communication; I teach with residents; and I write about the complexities of healthcare. In the non-medical world, I write in English and Yiddish, translating as well between both languages. I publish poetry, short stories, and essays/journalism.
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Award-winning Carnegie Mellon health economist Martin Gaynor and Zackary Sholem Berger chat in Yiddish about competition, the Affordable Care Act (otherwise known as Obamacare), and the US healthcare system -- and why it's so expensive.??????? ?????? ??? ???? ?????? ?????? ???? ?????????????????, ???????????, ??? ?? ???? ?? ???? ????????? ?????????…
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Zackary Sholem Berger talks to Alexander Dickow, a poet, translator, and critic working in both French and English, about navigating countries, languages, and esthetics. With cameo appearances by Dr. Seuss, the Babylonian Talmud, and the Commonwealth of Virginia.Here is the text of the poems read by Alexander Dickow on the podcast.To a PoliticianYo…
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Zackary Sholem Berger and the culinary ethnographer, cookbook expert, Yiddish teacher and translator, and vegetarian blogger (&c., &c.) Eve Jochnowitz talk at the 2016 Yiddish Vokh about the pre-war vegetarian restauranteur of Vilna, Fania Lewando; translating cookbooks; and her favorite food memories. In Yiddish.…
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Maggie Dubris is a writer and composer in New York. She has published and performed widely. On Sholem's Bias, I talked to her about her new book, Brokedown Palace. I'll let her describe it:"For 24 years, I was a 911 paramedic at St. Clare’s, a small hospital in Hell’s Kitchen. I worked during the dawn of AIDS, the influx of crack, and the most viol…
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Zackary Sholem Berger and Spanish essayist, poet, translator and journalist Mercedes Cebrián talk about choosing words, languages, foods, and politicians.Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities
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Eli Mandel, still recovering from ultra-Orthodoxy, talks with Zackary Sholem Berger about raising emotionally healthy children, not caring about God, and shiurim in a language you only half understand. The conversation is in Yiddish.Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities
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Zackary Sholem Berger chats with sociologist Josh Garoon about how older people in Baltimore understand their relationships with people, places, and institutions around them. How does trust, or lack thereof, influence aging, and is trust needed for good health?Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities
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Zackary Sholem Berger chats with poet Elinor Nauen about the variegated interests which inform her verse -- baseball, cars, and (perhaps?) snow. Current major league standings are also included.Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities
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Zack and Nathaniel Comfort, professor of history at Johns Hopkins and NASA/Library of Congress chair in astrobiology, talk about genetics, eugenics, and present-day medicine.Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities
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What does it mean for some diseases to be treated differently from others? Medical anthropologist Adia Benton discusses her work on Ebola and HIV -- and the possible application of these ideas to the Zika phenomenon.Sholem's Bias: Medicine and Other Curiosities
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Who is the British Trump, and why did Brexit happen? Check out one of our #Yiddish podcasts with London solicitor Dovid Herskovic.??????? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???????????? ?????? ???? ??? ??????????????????? ?????????. ???? ??? ?? ?? ?? ????? ???? ?????????? ???????????, ??? ?????? ????, ??? ??????????? ????? "???????" ??? ??? ?????????????? ??? ?????…
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