The lively pulse of Primary Care (with a PA spin) in an entertaining, monthly podcast.

What does the former CFO of Pixar have to do with physician burnout and the culture of medicine? We find out in this segment. Neda interviews Dr. Todd Cassese and Lawrence Levy, who helped build Pixar into the company it is today. Together they talk about changing professional cultures, the narrative of medicine being out of sync with the reality of medicine, perfectionism, emotional intelligence, and how Eastern philosophy’s The Middle Way can apply to all of our lives.

There are four main types of hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and there are nuances to how each should be managed differently. In this segment, Drs. Megan Jones and Neda Frayha walk us through these four categories, how to tell them apart from one another and how to manage them, including when to consider early delivery.

Dr. Rana Awdish, a pulmonary and critical care physician in Detroit, Michigan, wrote an incredibly powerful, bestselling memoir (In Shock) about her own experiences as a critical care patient. In this segment, she sits down with Neda Frayha to talk about healing, the ways the giant medical education industrial complex contributes to provider burnout, and the redemptive power of connection.

Dr. Paul Offit is a world-renowned expert on the safety and efficacy of vaccines. He has authored over 160 articles, co-invented the rotavirus vaccine, and been featured on shows like “60 Minutes,” “The Daily Show,” and “The Colbert Report,” among many others. In this segment, Sol Behar and Neda Frayha pick Dr. Offit’s brain about why our patients may be skeptical about vaccines and how best to communicate with them for the safety and wellbeing of all our patients.