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Better Odds

Better Odds

著者： Doug Stoddard & Ben Watts
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Better Odds tells the human stories behind America’s healthcare divide.

Hosted by physician Dr. Doug Stoddard, Better Odds travels across America to meet the patients, doctors, nurses, paramedics, pilots, volunteers, and neighbors living on the outer edge of the healthcare system.

Listeners will meet physicians operating without backup, paramedics covering entire counties, mothers driving hours to give birth, cancer patients crossing state lines for treatment, volunteers building hospitals inside gymnasiums, and communities fighting to save the institutions that keep them alive.

This is not a show about policy for policy’s sake. It's about what policy feels like when the ambulance is somewhere else. When the delivery room closes. When the specialist retires. When the hospital becomes an investment. When the medicine exists, but patients can't reach it.

Better Odds asks one central question: Why should your zip code determine your chance to survive?

Doug Stoddard & Ben Watts 2026 社会科学 衛生・健康的な生活 身体的病い・疾患
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  • The Last Baby

    The Last Baby
    2026/08/31

    For more than a century, babies were born at Hamilton Hospital in Olney, Texas.

    Then one day, they weren’t.

    In this episode of Better Odds, we meet Dr. Chantel Taylor, the FM OB who delivered the hospital’s final baby before its labor and delivery unit closed. For families across the region, the closure meant that one of life’s most predictable emergencies — childbirth — suddenly required a much longer drive.

    And Olney is far from alone.

    Across the United States, maternity wards are disappearing from rural communities. More than one-third of U.S. counties have no birthing facility or obstetric clinician, leaving millions of women living in what researchers call maternity care deserts.
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    28 分
  • The Line Starts at Midnight

    The Line Starts at Midnight
    2026/08/24

    At 3:15 in the morning, a parking lot in Knoxville is already full of patients waiting for free care.

    In The Line Starts at Midnight, we meet Chris Hall and Remote Area Medical, an organization that transforms gyms, fairgrounds, and convention centers into temporary clinics offering dental, vision, and medical care.

    Originally founded to bring doctors into some of the most remote places on Earth, RAM now serves communities across the United States—where patients may drive hundreds of miles, sleep in their cars for days, or go without care entirely.

    It’s a story about extraordinary compassion, extraordinary need, and the Americans still falling through the gaps of the healthcare system.
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    24 分
  • Right Place, Wrong Time

    Right Place, Wrong Time
    2026/08/17

    For more than a decade, Mayor Sheldon Day fought to bring a hospital back to Thomasville, Alabama.

    He raised money. Navigated regulations. Survived setbacks. And eventually, against the odds, his small rural community built a brand-new hospital.

    Then it opened... in March 2020.

    Right Place, Wrong Time is the story of what happened next—and what Thomasville’s struggle reveals about the economics of rural healthcare in America. Mayor Day takes us inside a fight that has consumed years of his life, as a community determined to save its hospital confronts a system that can make keeping one open feel nearly impossible.

    Because sometimes doing everything right still isn’t enough.
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    23 分
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