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This conversation first aired December 5, 2011.

This conversation first aired February 22, 2012.

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This conversation first aired September 19, 2011.

“He was a murderous fellow in a time of murderous fellows.”

When is it possible to get hospital-level treatment…at home?  A professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins has developed a model of care that allows doctors to visit patients in their homes—as opposed to treating them in the hospital.  It’s called, no suprise, “Hospital at Home.”

In about a week, a group of doctors from the Baltimore region will return to Honduras for the 15th straight year. Today, emergency physician John Wogan will tell us about the desperately needed medical care and public health advances he and his colleagues will bring to the rural village of Atima.

Juneteenth is right around the corner. That’s the anniversary of the day slaves in Texas were read the Emancipation Proclamation, the day that the last slaves in the United States were made aware of their freedom. 

This conversation first aired April 2, 2012.

The news out of Afghanistan this year has been heartbreaking, particularly the massacre of Afghan civilians and the murder of American soldiers in reprisal for burning Korans. Lost in the headlines are the voices of Afghans who work quietly each day for progress in their country–and especially missing is news of what’s going on with Afghan women.