It can be scary to go to the doctor. Patients may be afraid of bad news, of seeming difficult, of taking up too much time. Doctors might feel uncomfortable delivering bad news, or bringing up the cost of care. This very human layer of healthcare is our blind spot.Dr. Lucy McBride, a primary care physician of more than twenty years and author of Beyond the Prescription, argues that fear is inevitable, but not irreducible. Dr. McBride argues for humility, mutual candor, and even a bit of humor as she lays out practical tips and fresh ideas about how to navigate this very ancient divide.Because by pressing beyond fear, doctors can connect cancer patients with resources they didn’t even know were needed; accurately evaluate risk tolerance; and above all form a human connection and achieve better outcomes as true partners.

It can be scary to go to the doctor. Patients may be afraid of bad news, of seeming difficult, of taking up too much time. Doctors might feel uncomfortable delivering bad news, or bringing up the cost of care. This very human layer of healthcare is our blind spot.Dr. Lucy McBride, a primary care physician of more than twenty years and author of&nbsp;Beyond the Prescription, argues that fear is inevitable, but not irreducible. Dr. McBride argues for humility, mutual candor, and even a bit of humor as she lays out practical tips and fresh ideas about how to navigate this very ancient divide.Because by pressing beyond fear, doctors can connect cancer patients with resources they didn&rsquo;t even know were needed; accurately evaluate risk tolerance; and above all form a human connection and achieve better outcomes as true partners.

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 is dismissed as "emotional," to conditions that present differently across diverse patient populations, to the incredible administrative pressures facing providers doing their best. 

The Blind Spot reveals what it takes to see what medicine almost missed — and what it costs when we aren’t seeing each other clearly across the exam room.

Every misdiagnosis&ndash;or missed diagnosis&ndash;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 is dismissed as "emotional," to conditions that present differently across diverse patient populations, to the incredible administrative pressures facing providers doing their best.&nbsp;
The Blind Spot reveals what it takes to see what medicine almost missed &mdash; and what it costs when we aren&rsquo;t seeing each other clearly across the exam room.

The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

Naming the Fear in the Room with Dr. Lucy McBride

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Host Dr. Aditi Nerurkar sits down with Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and editor in chief of MedPage Today, to trace what actually moves (and doesn't) when one clinician hands a patient to the next. They start with the shorthand. A phrase like "second trope and go" compresses an entire risk stratification into four words, and the person receiving that patient has to trust it completely or start the workup over. From there the conversation widens. What does a patient experience on the other side of that same handoff, and what can care providers do make sure patients stay in partnership with their health teams, even across specialties or departments.

Host Dr. Aditi Nerurkar sits down with Dr. Jeremy Faust, emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and editor in chief of MedPage Today, to trace what actually moves (and doesn't) when one clinician hands a patient to the next. They start with the shorthand. A phrase like "second trope and go" compresses an entire risk stratification into four words, and the person receiving that patient has to trust it completely or start the workup over. From there the conversation widens. What does a patient experience on the other side of that same handoff, and what can care providers do make sure patients stay in partnership with their health teams, even across specialties or departments.

"Second Trope and Go": Dr. Jeremy Faust on the Language of the Handoff

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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 medical community recognizes, and that the structural reasons physicians miss it are themselves a form of institutional blind spot.


Dunlop, creator of the award-winning podcast "Nobody Should Believe Me" and founder of the nation's only nonprofit dedicated to survivors of this abuse, walks through how the pattern actually appears in a chart, why clinicians are uniquely vulnerable to manipulation by perpetrators, and why a child aging out of pediatric care does not mean they are out of danger. The conversation keeps returning to a single orienting principle: the child is the patient, not the parent. When that distinction gets blurred, the consequences can be fatal.

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 medical community recognizes, and that the structural reasons physicians miss it are themselves a form of institutional blind spot.
 Dunlop, creator of the award-winning podcast "Nobody Should Believe Me" and founder of the nation's only nonprofit dedicated to survivors of this abuse, walks through how the pattern actually appears in a chart, why clinicians are uniquely vulnerable to manipulation by perpetrators, and why a child aging out of pediatric care does not mean they are out of danger. The conversation keeps returning to a single orienting principle: the child is the patient, not the parent. When that distinction gets blurred, the consequences can be fatal.

"The Child Is Your Patient": Andrea Dunlop on the Medical Abuse Hiding in Plain Sight

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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 when a diagnosis is not a medical conclusion but a way of belonging?

Patients are arriving in the exam room already labeled because an online community offered an identity at a moment when they needed one. Dr. Judith walks through the Tourette's uptick she observed in post-pandemic adolescents, the adult women grieving years of missed ADHD diagnoses, and the stimulant shortage she sees as a downstream consequence of over-prescription driven by online self-diagnosis.

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&nbsp;High Functioning, quickly moves it somewhere more complicated: what happens when a diagnosis is not a medical conclusion but a way of belonging?
Patients are arriving in the exam room already labeled because an online community offered an identity at a moment when they needed one. Dr. Judith walks through the Tourette's uptick she observed in post-pandemic adolescents, the adult women grieving years of missed ADHD diagnoses, and the stimulant shortage she sees as a downstream consequence of over-prescription driven by online self-diagnosis.

Diagnosis or Identity? Dr. Judith Joseph on Social Media, Self-Diagnosis, and Loneliness

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