10 episodes

In Doctor’s Log, a new podcast from The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios, Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency room physician in Portland, Oregon, will deliver a twice weekly report from the front lines of the coronavirus crisis: her own ER. She takes listeners into the real world doctors and nurses are facing now, as they grapple with the most significant health threat in modern history, and helps us all understand what to do to stay safe. For transcripts, please visit our website (https://pineapple.fm/doctorslog).

Doctor's Log The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.5 • 136 Ratings

In Doctor’s Log, a new podcast from The Meteor and Pineapple Street Studios, Dr. Esther Choo, an emergency room physician in Portland, Oregon, will deliver a twice weekly report from the front lines of the coronavirus crisis: her own ER. She takes listeners into the real world doctors and nurses are facing now, as they grapple with the most significant health threat in modern history, and helps us all understand what to do to stay safe. For transcripts, please visit our website (https://pineapple.fm/doctorslog).

    Stay Outraged

    Stay Outraged

    Over the last month, as the United States has entered a seismic reckoning around racism, Esther Choo, M.D., has been reflecting on medicine—and has some blunt words. Racial inequity in health care is nothing new: Black people suffer higher rates of everything from maternal mortality to chronic disease. Now, she says, medical institutions “are scrambling to look like they know what they are doing [on race]…and I don't think they do.” In this passionate episode, she turns a critical lens on both the health-care establishment and herself, makes the case that protecting health for all people “is the defining issue of our age,” and tells listeners how they can help in the months and years ahead.

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    • 9 min
    In Other Words, Wear Your Mask

    In Other Words, Wear Your Mask

    Do we have enough tests? That’s a question Esther Choo, MD, has been hearing over and over—and here, she answers it clearly, along the way delivering a resounding, personal reminder that modifying our behavior, through social distancing and, yes, masks, will continue to be key to good health. This is the real deal on how an emergency room physician feels about reopening our cities. For transcripts, please visit our website (https://pineapple.fm/doctorslog).

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    • 10 min
    More Than Clapping

    More Than Clapping

    Months into the pandemic, Esther Choo, M.D., is trying to evaluate the new normal for medical staff. What will the summer bring? And the next year? Along the way, she ropes in a few of her colleagues for their own uncensored opinions—and lets the rest of us know what we can really do to support doctors and nurses. (Hint: The clapping is nice. But it’s not that.) For transcripts, please visit our website (https://pineapple.fm/doctorslog)

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    • 8 min
    When We Hit A Wall

    When We Hit A Wall

    As we enter another month of the COVID-19 crisis, emergency room physician Esther Choo, M.D., looks ahead in the unknown future of this pandemic. In Episode 7 of Doctor's Log, she offers advice on what people can do to support healthcare workers in their long, ongoing work—and asks what a race looks like when you don’t know where the finish line lies.For transcripts, please visit our website (https://pineapple.fm/doctorslog)

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    • 7 min
    Three Davids and One Kevin

    Three Davids and One Kevin

    Who do we turn to in a time of crisis? And why do those people always turn out to be so similar? Emergency-room physician Esther Choo, M.D. unpacks our cultural tendency to look to men—specifically, white men—as leaders, whether on TV, in medical institutions, and beyond. This is more than a fairness issue, she argues. It’s an issue of life and death. This is a must-listen episode with far-reaching implications for our current moment...and well beyond.

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    • 8 min
    The Young Docs on the Front Lines

    The Young Docs on the Front Lines

    The COVID-19 pandemic is an all-hands-on-deck situation, and medical residents—generally young doctors at lower levels of pay and responsibility—have been thrust onto the front lines. How fair is that? What are the risks? [And how do doctors in charge balance the needs of a pandemic against the welfare of their own staff?] In Episode 5 of Doctor’s Log, Esther Choo, M.D., considers this much-debated question, and interviews the people at the heart of the issue: the residents at her own Portland, Oregon, hospital. For transcripts, please visit pineapple.fm.

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    • 10 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
136 Ratings

136 Ratings

Crunch1 ,

Sweet and sour memories

I really miss her podcast, my ex-wife is a nurse and her podcast reminded me of the conversations I would have with my ex when she was done working. Wonder if the doctor is OK? Does anybody know? I hope she can come back and give us some more podcast.

GDocPdx ,

Appreciated

I journeyed down a podcast rabbit hole and discovered this podcast by accident. The episodes are brief enough that I listened to all 10 or so in a couple of hours. Interesting to listen and see how prophetic some of the doctor’s thoughts & concerns were about things. My wife and I have been happy to hear her voice over the major news network (my wife worked at same institution until a month ago).
Hopefully Dr. Choo will be able to have some time to eek out a podcast or 2 in regards to the vaccination rollout and vaccine in arms from her point of view. If not, thank you for sharing your thoughts and concerns. Hope you and your family stay well.

BrookAndBear ,

On the job reporting

Dr. Choo is excellent and compassionate. I hope we see more episodes soon!

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