Friday Reflections on Econ Talk

I am a podcast addict. I listen to them when I run, when I walk, when I do dishes, and when I just need to quiet the chatter in my head. I only listen to ones I enjoy but my podcasts exist on a spectrum from pleasurable to educational. Furthest to the pleasure/right of the spectrum is probably Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me; to the educational/left is Conversations with Tyler. My list of recommendations lives here.

Econ Talk is almost a perfect balance of enjoyable and enriching. The one liner for the podcast is, EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution.

Russ is an economist and his guests run the gamut from academics of every discipline, to novelists, to humorists. There have been many wonderful conversations about medicine with an amazing array of guests.

Given the list in the previous link, I have had the absolute privilege of being a guest three times. On my first visit, I discussed our book Ending Medical Reversal. The second was dedicated to our article, The Case for Being a Medical Conservative. On my most recent visit, I got to talk about three of my Friday Reflections, published here on Sensible Medicine: Four of the Things Patients Have Taught Me; The Memory Binder; and A Pledge That Can Be Hard to Honor. Like all good conversations, I am sure I learned more from talking to Russ than he did from me.

I share the link here since these essays began on Sensible Medicine. I hope you enjoy the conversations and, maybe, discover a new podcast.