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.” Broadcasts began June 9, 2018.

L to R: Miller, Story co-host and co-producer Jim Ludes, Daniela Lamas.

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-- Sandeep Jauhar, practicing cardiologist and author, most recently of “Heart: A History.” Broadcasts began October 6, 2018.

Ludes, Jauhar, visitor Dr. Fred Wu from Boston Children's, Miller and Padma Venkatraman, taped the same day.

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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. Broadcasts began February 12, 2019.

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. Broadcasts began March 25, 2019.

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. Broadcasts began May 27, 2019.

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. He is the author of  “Health Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy -- All at the Same Time.” Broadcasts began September 16, 2019.

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.” Broadcasts began September 23, 2019.

Sakran, center.

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-- John Halpern, co-author of “Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World” and a private-practice psychiatrist who previously served as medical director of the Boston Center for Addiction Treatment, the largest substance-use disorder hospital in New England. Broadcasts began November 4, 2019.

Halpern, right, with co-author David Blistein and the Story hosts.

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