Doctors in the Public Square

Our national “Story in the Public Square” PBS/SiriusXM audiences (and thank you for watching and/or listening!) know of the many different types of storytellers we feature on the show: scholars, authors, journalists, filmmakers, poets, still photographers, performance artists and more.We also bring on physicians who with their practices, writing, research and advocacy bring important physical and behavioral health issues to the public square. And I personally have an affinity for MDs, having written three books featuring doctors: “The Work of Human Hands,” with Hardy Hendren; “King of Hearts,” with Walt Lillehei; and “The Xeno Chronicles,” with David Sachs. As of this writing, the following doctors have been guests on our show, and all have been wonderful. Stay tuned for more!
-- Daniela Lamas, a pulmonary and critical care doctor at the Brigham & Women's Hospital and faculty at Harvard Medical School. Author of “You Can Stop Humming Now.”
L to R: Miller, Story co-host and co-producer Jim Ludes, Daniela Lamas.WATCH THE EPISODE

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-- Sandeep Jauhar,practicing cardiologist and author, most recently of “Heart: A History.”
Ludes, Jauhar, visitor Dr. Fred Wu from Boston Children's, Miller and Padma Venkatraman, taped the same day.WATCH THE EPISODE

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-- Jason Rafferty,pediatrician and child psychiatrist, practices at the gender and sexuality clinic of Bradley Hospital and at the Adolescent Healthcare Center at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Specializes in substance abuse disorders and gender and sexual development.
Rafferty, right, with Miller and Ludes.
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-- Helen Ouyang, writer, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and full-time emergency-room physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

Ouyang, right.
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*****-- Mona Hanna-Attisha, associate professor of pediatrics and human development at Michigan State University, founder and director of the Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, and author of “What the Eyes Don’t See,” a memoir of her role in exposing the Flint water crisis.
Dr. Mona, center, with U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and students and teachers
from Providence's Sanchez Educational Complex


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-- Michael Fine, former director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, Fine has been a writer, community organizer, family physician and public health official for more than 40 years. In addition to his book, “Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy -- All at the Same Time,” he has published widely in the medical literature, mostly about health policy.  He also served as a medical officer in Kenya and worked as a volunteer during the Liberian Civil War, the subject of “Abundance,” his first novel. L to R: Miller, novelist Christopher Brown (taped same day), Fine, Ludes.
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-- Joseph Sakran,Director of Emergency General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and founder of Docs Demand Action, a “movement of Americans demanding common sense solutions to end gun violence in our nation.”
Sakran, center.

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