Our first episode of season three kicks off with a very special, long-awaited guest…a woman who needs no introduction, but I’m giving her one anyway because she’s ‘a my wife—Amanda Neiman. We explain the reason for our truncated 2nd season and our exceptionally long hiatus: we had a baby! In new-parent fashion, our conversation is a wild, sleep-deprived reflection on how we’re adjusting to the love bomb that just exploded in the epicenter of our lives: our five-month-old little boy, As...
All content for A Better Pill To Swallow is the property of David Neiman and is served directly from their servers
with no modification, redirects, or rehosting. The podcast is not affiliated with or endorsed by Podjoint in any way.
Our first episode of season three kicks off with a very special, long-awaited guest…a woman who needs no introduction, but I’m giving her one anyway because she’s ‘a my wife—Amanda Neiman. We explain the reason for our truncated 2nd season and our exceptionally long hiatus: we had a baby! In new-parent fashion, our conversation is a wild, sleep-deprived reflection on how we’re adjusting to the love bomb that just exploded in the epicenter of our lives: our five-month-old little boy, As...
29. Love in Medicine, Liability Culture, and the Mystery of Dying
A Better Pill To Swallow
1 hour 27 minutes
5 months ago
29. Love in Medicine, Liability Culture, and the Mystery of Dying
This week, I’m joined by nurse practitioner Margaret Decker for a conversation about the role of love and community in modern medicine. We talk about what it means to show up for people—not just as professionals, but as humans—especially in moments of illness, aging, and death. We explore how belief, religion, and ideology intersect with science in clinical settings, and how the fear of liability can quietly distort what care is meant to be. Margaret shares how she approaches her work as some...
A Better Pill To Swallow
Our first episode of season three kicks off with a very special, long-awaited guest…a woman who needs no introduction, but I’m giving her one anyway because she’s ‘a my wife—Amanda Neiman. We explain the reason for our truncated 2nd season and our exceptionally long hiatus: we had a baby! In new-parent fashion, our conversation is a wild, sleep-deprived reflection on how we’re adjusting to the love bomb that just exploded in the epicenter of our lives: our five-month-old little boy, As...
