Better Odds

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?