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Listener Q&A—Genetics and Heart Disease. The Problem With 'Fragmented' Medicine
23 minutes Posted Sep 30, 2025 at 5:58 pm.
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Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 135 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:

Genes and heart health: Is there a specific gene that increases heart-disease risk in black people? More importantly, does that knowledge improve our ability to treat individual patients?

Fragmented health care: Why is medicine so compartmentalized—divided into isolated specialties that treat specific body organs and ailments—and does this fragmentation hinder patient care?