Drug Story: How Medicines Reveal Society and Public Health
STAT’s First Opinion interview with Thomas Goetz explains Drug Story, a podcast that uses a three‑act framework—diagnosis, prescription, side effects—to explore how individual drugs illuminate broader social, economic, and policy forces shaping health, from obesity and insomnia to ivermectin repurposing. Goetz, who holds an MPH, argues medicines reflect not just biology but systemic determinants and the common good, and he plans a second season of about 30 more drugs, produced independently to broaden public understanding of health and medicine.