NEJM This Week

First time listener here! Overall, I really loved the episode I listened to. After reading other reviews, I realized I might be a unique listener as I am not yet an MD. I have completed a bachelor degree and will be matriculating in Fall 2026. I have 6 years experience working in emergency medicine as a nursing assistant. I came to the podcast to broaden my knowledge before medical school, and possibly learn something that may help patients I encounter. I was familiar with a good amount of the language, but felt like I needed to refresh on some of it! I was able to refer back to my lecture and research notes to refresh. The pod is a really great learning tool to that effect. I wouldn’t suggest the pod should “dumb down” the information so to speak because it seems the target audience understands the information well. I think it may just be me who has to pause and review notes to remember what some of the verbiage means. However, I would suggest the voice be more human-like. She sounded like a robot. While I still was intrigued by the information, the voice was at times very unnatural and off-putting for me. Regardless, I will be back to listen to the pod because after about 45 minutes (with my pausing and what not), I refreshed on immunology, endocrinology, and IHC and ELISA research techniques. Pretty good use of my time!

The podcast is well read (with the exception of some medication names being mispronounced) and does a great job on paraphrasing studies. The main issue is with the journal articles. There is too much emphasis on cancer treatments. ~30% of physicians work in primary care while only 2.1% work in Hem/onc specialties. Another issue is the lack of opinion diversity. While the medical profession has been based on the concept of continued progression, not all progress is for the best of humanity. It would be nice to see a conservative side to arguments such as abortion, affirmative action in the medical community, and equity. Thanks

Informative but a bit to much emphasis equity and not enough on medical science.

I am impressed with the breadth of information presented, the focused brevity, the clarity of speech, and quality of recording, each of which has been an issue in other medical podcasts that I’ve followed. Sincere Thanks, H. Messec, MD

Less politics please! For the record abortion is MURDER of a child, NOT a reproductive choice! Drop the baloney about climate change affecting everyone get off the political bandwagon and focus on science! I’m not listening further because you guys are interested in politics I wanted politics I would listen to a political podcast