The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
Every misdiagnosis–or missed diagnosis–has a story. The Blind Spot goes looking for it. Each episode goes back to the beginning, as physicians revisit the cases that kept them up at night and patients recount the persistence it took to finally break through a diagnostic wall. The clues were often there. The question is why no one connected them. From systemic biases where a woman's chronic pain i…Social links:
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"The Child Is Your Patient": Andrea Dunlop on the Medical Abuse Hiding in Plain Sight
Most physicians were trained to believe Munchausen by proxy is vanishingly rare. Andrea Dunlop has spent years talking to the clinicians, survivors, and researchers who know otherwise. In this conversation with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, she makes the case that the condition is far more common than the me…
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Diagnosis or Identity? Dr. Judith Joseph on Social Media, Self-Diagnosis, and Loneliness
Fifty-two percent of the top-performing TikTok videos about ADHD contain misinformation. That is where this conversation starts. But Dr. Judith Joseph, board-certified psychiatrist, principal investigator, and author of High Functioning, quickly moves it somewhere more complicated: what happens whe…
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Be the Medicine: Dr. Akshay Pendyal on Placebo, Nocebo, and Trust
Seventy-one percent of Americans trusted doctors and hospitals in January 2020. By January 2024, that number had fallen to forty percent. But the same data shows that eighty-five percent of patients still trust their own physician. Cardiologist Dr. Akshay Pendyal calls medicine the most complex soc…
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"They Come In Curious": Dr. Thomas VanderMeer on Curiosity, Humility, and the Patient Who's Done the Reading
Host Dr. Aditi Nerurkar sits down with Dr. Thomas VanderMeer, surgical oncologist and interim director of the Upstate Cancer Center at SUNY Upstate Medical University, to trade notes on the real work of caring for the data-informed patient. They start with a case. A woman with rising ctDNA, no ima…
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The Convergence of Technology and Biology: Dr. Nadine Jackson on Keeping Up and Taking Care
Welcome to The Blind Spot. Every misdiagnosis, every missed diagnosis, has a story. This show goes looking for it. In the premiere episode, host Dr. Aditi Nerurkar sits down with Dr. Nadine Jackson, gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Dana-Farber and associate professor at Harvard Medical Schoo…
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Introducing: The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
Every misdiagnosis–or missed diagnosis–has a story. The Blind Spot goes looking for it. Each episode goes back to the beginning, as physicians revisit the cases that kept them up at night and patients recount the persistence it took to finally break through a diagnostic wall. The clues were often t…
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