Kaia Findlay

1 week ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Doctors are expected to make high-stakes decisions quickly and often. And while plenty of medical guidelines exist, sometimes finding the right answer relies on intuition as much as logic. So what happens when suddenly that intuition is gone? Dr. Ronald Dworkin, a retired anesthesiologist, found out the answer to that question about halfway through his 28-year career.

2 weeks ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay |Anita Rao |Amanda Magnus

Ever since Kate Downey got her first extremely painful period at age 14, every month feels like playing Russian roulette with her uterus. Will she get “normal” abdominal discomfort — or excruciating, life-disrupting “death cramps”? “ You don't know if you're gonna spend six hours in the bathroom throwing up every ten minutes and passing out, or if you're gonna be able to go about your normal life,” Kate said.

3 weeks ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Since his first day in office, President Trump has rolled out executive orders limiting transgender Americans' access to healthcare, passports, sports and the military. One trans scholar says it’s vital, in this moment, to talk about technology. “ I don't have any illusions that technology is going to solve these problems,” said Oliver Haimson, assistant professor at University of Michigan School of Information.

1 month ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

Despite a decade of restrictive behavior and a career path in mental health counseling, Alishia McCullough had never associated herself with the phrase eating disorder. “A lot of times I was praised for being thin,” she said. “My providers would say you're a perfect size … so for me, it just never registered to be a problem.”She talks to host Anita Rao about how an aha moment in grad school led her to better understand how to treat eating disorders in Black women’s bodies — starting with her own.

1 month ago | wunc.org | Kaia Findlay

For solo mom Tara Ilsley, time and money are in short supply. Most of her attention is focused on her 2-year-old son and her full-time job in public health — but that doesn’t mean she’s put dating, sex and romance completely by the wayside. Host Anita Rao talks with Tara about the ways that single mom life has put a finer point on her desires for partnership and pleasure, and the hacks she’s come up with to make sure she can get out the door for a date.