Beyond the Prescription

Lucy McBride

lucymcbride@substack.com

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Booking Overview

This physician-led health interview show focuses on evidence-based medicine, preventive care, mental health, and patient agency, featuring healthcare specialists, innovators, and established authors or journalists as external guests. PR agencies could credibly pitch physicians, medical researchers, healthcare leaders, mental-health experts, and authors with authoritative perspectives on health; booking difficulty is medium because guests typically hold senior clinical or professional credentials.

Metrics

Episodes: 110

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 22.0k followers

Contact Information

lucymcbride@substack.com

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Host

Lucy McBride - Internal medicine physician, author, and health communicator with 25 years of clinical experience focused on helping patients understand complex health information and make informed care decisions.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Board-certified or senior healthcare professionals, medical specialists, healthcare innovators, and established authors or journalists with authoritative expertise in health, medicine, psychology, or human behavior.
Required Achievements:  
Senior clinical or leadership roles at major healthcare institutions, Published books on health, medicine, psychology, or personal transformation, Established journalism or media credentials, Recognized expertise in evidence-based healthcare topics

Recent Guest Discussions

Amy Commander - Breast Cancer Risk, Screening, Dense Breasts, Lifestyle Prevention, And Hormone Replacement Therapy For Survivors.

Greg Katz - Blood Pressure Measurement, Hypertension, Home Monitoring, Cardiovascular Risk, And Treatment Options.

Benoit Denizet-Lewis - Personal Transformation, Personality Change, Self-compassion, Shame, Guilt, And The Social Dimensions Of Change.

Recent Topics

Patient Advocacy, Preventive Care, Mental Health, Medicine, Wellness

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Beyond the Prescription
:

What I Wish Every Woman Knew About Breast Cancer

July 07, 2026

My book, Beyond the Prescription, comes out on August 11! I wrote it with you in mind.Episode SummaryDr. Lucy McBride sits down with Dr. Amy Commander, breast oncologist at Mass General Brigham and author of Paving Your Path Through Breast Cancer and Beyond, to cut through the fear and misinformation around breast cancer. They cover who is actually at risk, what the screening guidelines mean in practice, what lifestyle factors move the needle, and how to make sense of the HRT and breast cance...

The Silent Killer: What Everyone Should Know About Blood Pressure

May 26, 2026

Dr. Lucy McBride sits down again with Dr. Greg Katz, cardiologist at NYU, to tackle the questions patients ask most about blood pressure: what the numbers actually mean, why a single reading in the doctor’s office can mislead, what drives hypertension in the first place, and how to think about treatment. Tune in for practical, plainspoken advice, grounded in the reality of everyday patient care.What Blood Pressure Actually Measures* Blood pressure is the force your blood vessels experience as...

Can People Actually Change?

May 13, 2026

Dr. Lucy McBride sits down with Benoit Denizet-Lewis, longtime writer for the New York Times Magazine and bestselling author of You’ve Changed: The Promise and Price of Self-Transformation, for a wide-ranging conversation about how people actually transform. What Transformation Actually Means—and How It Happens* The self-help industry focuses on habit change and optimization; Denizet-Lewis was interested in something deeper: shifts in identity, perspective, and personality that make people fe...

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