Sentenced to Sickness? Covid-19 Behind Bars. What should happen when losing your freedom could also mean losing your life? We follow the story of Eraina Pretty, Maryland’s longest serving incarcerated woman who at age 60 is at risk for sever

Covid Quandaries Episode 1

Oct 6th, 2020 30m 8s

How special are health care workers?

COVID Quandaries Trailer

Sep 2nd, 2020 1m 39s

COVID Quandaries – the Hard Call team is back at work, producing a series of special episodes exploring some of the toughest ethical decisions facing patients, clinicians, health systems and policymakers as all confront the unprecedented challe

Electronic Heart | Episode 4

Aug 16th, 2017 47m 54s

Max got what he wanted, but it didn’t work out as he’d hoped. In the final episode of our pilot season we ask several guests, was it worth it? What is the value of a few extra months of life, when those months include indignity, suffering and p

Electronic Heart | Episode 3

Aug 9th, 2017 34m 22s

Max wants to terminate his treatment and have his LVAD turned off, but stopping the LVAD means he would die almost immediately. His doctor is morally opposed to stopping the device, or even to finding another doctor to do it, as he feels this

Electronic Heart | Episode 2

Aug 2nd, 2017 44m 4s

ax isn’t the only one with a decision to make. Even if he wants an LVAD — a partial artificial heart that plugs into an electrical outlet — his medical team has to agree he’d be a good candidate to get one. And it’s not just his medical conditi

Electronic Heart | Episode 1

Jul 26th, 2017 28m

Episode 1 of The Electronic Heart follows the stories of two patients, Carl and “Max,” both with severe congestive heart failure. For Carl, who is on the list for a heart transplant, the choice was clear. But for Max, who isn’t eligible for a t

Electronic Heart | Trailer

Jul 17th, 2017 2m 21s

Electronic Heart | Trailer by University of Colorado

Derailed | Episode 5

Jul 12th, 2017 41m 27s

Jeff’s chomping at the bit to start a new venture. There’s just one thing...he’s tried to start two businesses before, and ended up strapped to a gurney in a mental hospital both times. What would you do?

Derailed | Episode 4

Jul 5th, 2017 24m 43s

Once upon a time, Jeff loved his work. He lived for it. Now it’s killing him. For real.

Derailed | Trailer

Jun 19th, 2017 2m 34s

Derailed, a 5-part podcast series, helps to break the silence by bringing to life the authentic experience of one man suffering from mental illness, including the excruciating dilemmas – the “hard calls” — that face everyone in his circle — par

Derailed | Episode 3

May 31st, 2017 29m 6s

Jeff is spending thousands to see a psychiatrist in a tony midtown Manhattan office — all the while dealing with potential bankruptcy. In this episode: mental illness meets money. Who wins?

Derailed | Episode 2

May 31st, 2017 49m 48s

Jeff encounters stigma and wants to face it down. On the one side is his integrity; on the other, millions of dollars, many jobs, and the very survival of his company. Should Jeff reveal the truth?

Derailed | Episode 1

May 12th, 2017 47m 27s

Jeff Zinn is is a mega-productive, millionaire entrepreneur, a charmer who is the subject of fawning stories in the press. He’s the epitome of success. Or is he? We explore the troubling line between a “big” personality and mental illness. Who