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For most clinicians, the idea of harming a patient is a worst nightmare. But in a high-stakes profession, practiced by humans in a dysfunctional sy...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 34:26
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On the path to medicine, we’re constantly taking tests: MCAT, shelf exams, step exams, boards, and more. What are these numbers good for? What are ...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2022
  • Length: 38:02
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If unable to care for yourself, who would you choose as your guardian angel? After a harrowing health scare, Alexandra Drane shares her SUPERHUMAN...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 36:26
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This week, we go left or we go right.

Bought by KGOU, KBGA 89.9 FM, and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This is audio of a formerly incarcerated woman reading a letter she wrote while in prison.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:13
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"Love never dies, and neither do my flowers."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
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Life of the Law begins our 4-part series on Uganda. Reported by Gladys Oroma from Gulu, Uganda where she reports for local, national and internatio...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 36:29
Caption: Vaughn Hood, Credit: Erica Heilman
A story about war and hairdressing.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 31:50
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Two skydivers died in a fatal tandem jump. The men’s parachutes didn’t open completely. A month later, what happened to the man who found the parac...

Bought by PRX Remix, HowSound, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 08:51
  • Purchases: 3
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A personal essay exploring all kinds of intimacy.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
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How long would your relationship last without a kiss or more than a kiss In America, only three states allow prisoners and their spouses or domesti...

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 17:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption:  We can see that neurons fire when people complain of central pain, but still no one knows why. , Credit: Gerd Altmann
Cindey LeGeyt and Danielle Cellucci have fatigue and intense pain all over their bodies, and they believe they have a disease. But many people say ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Marvin Ramos and daughter Hailey
There is less research on adolescent fathers than on mothers — much less — and most of it focuses on the impact to the child if a dad is not in hi...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:28
  • Purchases: 2
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Tales of being stuck between two worlds.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Melissa in 2013., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
Listen to Melissa's teenage and grown-up diaries in this podcast episode.

  • Added: Jun 13, 2013
  • Length: 39:30
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Rachel comes full-circle. She goes from being a college student to be a stripper and then back to starting all over again.

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 18:57
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJAB, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 49:56
  • Purchases: 6
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A mother talks about the decision to put her mentally handicapped daughter in a group home.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 03:29
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In this conversation, a man discusses his decision to accept his homosexuality.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 1
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During the summer of 2010, producer Aengus Anderson rode his motorcycle around North America and interviewed 220 people about the hardest decisions...

Bought by KSKQ and KUT


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Tish Morgan Mata, Credit: Tish Morgan Mata
Tish Morgan Mata has been bipolar from a very young age, and used drugs, alcohol, sex and food to self-medicate. In this interview she describes wh...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2010
  • Length: 24:14
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Julie Keene harvests snails for a living, but she's had to give that up to fight against a major corporation.

Bought by PRX Remix, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 4
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Activist poet discusses his work.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2007
  • Length: 04:06
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Peter Mattox manages a guest cabin in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.

Bought by WABE and The Nature Podcast


  • Added: Oct 30, 2006
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
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An 'in dialect' and audio narrative of rural poems from the Annapolis Valley, in Nova Scotia, Canada

  • Added: May 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:36