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Social Service Administration and Beyond: Chatting with Dr. Harold Pollack of the Univ. of Chicago

Aired on Monday, December 11th.

On this installment of ST Medical Monday, we offer a wide-ranging chat with Dr. Harold Pollack, the Helen Ross Professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration. He's written prolifically on the inter-related topics of poverty, policy, crime, and public health; his articles have appeared in scholarly journals like Journal of the American Medical Association and Social Service Review as well as in political magazines like The Nation and The New Republic. (His essay called "Lessons from an Emergency Room, Nightmare" appeared in the anthology, "The Best American Medical Writing: 2009.") Dr. Pollack talks with us not just about his experiences teaching social service administration, but also about caring for his wife's developmentally disabled brother, the uncertain fate of Medicaid within the U.S. health care system, and the surprising manner by which Dr. Pollack once had a blog post "go viral" (a post about financial responsibility, no less).

Rich Fisher is celebrating his 40th year of service to Public Radio Tulsa. Since 2000, he has been the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and previously served as the host of the public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which ran from 1992-2021. Prior to that, he served as music director, a program host and operations director for the station.
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