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The Blind Spot with Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

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Trust In Medicine
Cardiology
Telemedicine
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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... more

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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 ... more

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 move... more

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. A... more

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.

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Dr. Judith Joseph
Board-certified psychiatrist, researcher, author of High Functioning, host of The Vault Podcast
Columbia University; NYU Langone Medical Center
Episode: Diagnosis or Identity? Dr. Judith Joseph on Social Media, Self-Diagnosis, and Loneliness
Dr. Akshay Pendyal
Cardiologist; writer on bioethics and social science in medicine
Cardiology; writings in bioethics and social science and medicine
Episode: Be the Medicine: Dr. Akshay Pendyal on Placebo, Nocebo, and Trust
Thomas VanderMeer
Oncological surgeon; interim director of the Upstate Cancer Center at Upstate Medical University
Upstate Medical University
Episode: "They Come In Curious": Dr. Thomas VanderMeer on Curiosity, Humility, and the Patient Who's Done the Reading
Dr. Nadine Jackson
Medical oncologist and clinician investigator at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Episode: The Convergence of Technology and Biology: Dr. Nadine Jackson on Keeping Up and Taking Care

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Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
Host of The Blind Spot

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The Convergence of Technology and Biology: Dr. Nadine Jackson on Keeping Up and Taking Care
Q: How do you balance rapid advances with thoughtful patient care in everyday practice?
By anchoring decisions in the strongest available evidence, using a layered system that includes conferences, tumor boards, and continuous dialogue with patients to align care with their goals and context.
The Convergence of Technology and Biology: Dr. Nadine Jackson on Keeping Up and Taking Care
Q: Dr. Jackson, when did you develop your practice, and did you have mentors that helped you learn to absorb new information continuously?
I developed the system fairly early, starting from the evidence we have, guided by mentors who emphasized knowing what we know and recognizing gaps to address next.
Diagnosis or Identity? Dr. Judith Joseph on Social Media, Self-Diagnosis, and Loneliness
Q: Dr. Judith, tell us about your path and how you decided to bring your work into the public space.
Dr. Judith describes switching from anesthesiology to psychiatry, finding fulfillment in patient care, and then embracing media to educate the public, while highlighting the need for clinicians to speak openly online to counter misinformation.

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The series centers on how misdiagnoses and diagnostic blind spots arise, exploring the human and systemic factors that lead to missed connections in clinical care. Through physician-hosted conversations with clinicians and patients, episodes examine biases, time pressures, and communication gaps in the exam room, and highlight real-world cases where clues were missed and the cost of those misses. The show frequently emphasizes patient empowerment, clinician humility, and strategies to improve diagnostic accuracy, including better psychoeducation, clearer patient-physician dialogue, and systemic changes to support care. Notable angles include gender- and population-based presentation differences, the impact of administrative pressures on pro... more

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