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Episodes: 164
Frequency: Weekly
Rating: 4.4/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1k-10k
Gender skew: Neutral
Location: USA
Instagram: 24.0k followers
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Torie - The provided episode text indicates Torie is a co-host who speaks with guests, including Sarah Mupo and other experts, about health care issues and ideas shaping the field.
Sarah Mupo - Sarah Mupo is identified in the episode text as STAT’s director of editorial operations and keeper of the STAT style guide, speaking with Torie on healthcare-related editorial standards and decisio...
Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft - Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft is described as a neonatal nurse practitioner who began medical school and will begin family medicine residency; she discussed her journey and challenges with Torie.
Braxton Mitchell - Braxton Mitchell is described as a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, discussing Amish approaches to health care and public health topics.
Cory Anderson - Cory Anderson is described as a postdoctoral researcher in population health and demography at Pennsylvania State University’s Population Research Institute, discussing Amish approaches to the medi...
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Recent Guest Discussions
Sarah Mupo - Stat’s ‘healthcare’ Vs ‘health Care’ Styling Decision; Editorial Process And Implications Of Single-word Changes
Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft - Starting Medical Residency At 72; Path To Medical School; Challenges Navigating Medicare/employment As A Resident
Cory Anderson - Research On Amish Communities And Public Health; Vaccination And Autism Misconceptions; Paying For Care
Braxton Mitchell - Amish Approach To Health Care; Vaccination; Autism Claims And Broader Public Health Context
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Episodes
How STAT decided to keep ‘health care’ as two words
June 17, 2026
The medical journalism world was rocked recently when the mavens behind the Associated Press Stylebook announced a seismic change: It was embracing "healthcare" as one word, after decades of styling it as two. When the change was debuted at ACES, a conference of editors, “people cheered, there was a commotion. It seemed like it was really warmly received,” Sarah Mupo, STAT’s director of editorial operations and keeper of the STAT style guide, told me on this episode of the “First Opinion Pod...
‘They all think I’m insane’: What it’s like to start medical residency at 72
June 10, 2026
Every time Dawn Zuidgeest-Craft intended to apply to medical school, life got in the way. But after 45 years as a neonatal nurse practitioner, she finally did it, beginning medical school at the age of 69 in 2022. She hadn’t originally intended to practice after graduating, but soon, a week before she turns 73, Zuidgeest-Craft will begin her residency in family medicine. “I know what I’m getting into. I think a lot of young wannabes don’t have a clue, but I have a big clue,” she said. Star...
The Amish way of health care
June 03, 2026
Back in September, at what would prove to be an infamous press conference, President Trump repeated a claim popular among vaccine critics: Autism “doesn’t exist with the Amish community, and they don’t take all of this junk,” he said, referring to vaccines. That’s not true, according to Braxton Mitchell, a professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Cory Anderson, who is a postdoctoral researcher in population health and demography at Pennsylvania State Univer...
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