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A podcast about all things health and health care in Ohio, part of the WCBE Podcast Experience and Health Podcast Network. Hosted by health policy professor, Dan Skinner. Collaborations with the Center for Community Solutions and the Ohio Journal of Public Health.

Welcome to Prognosis Ikigai. Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means “reason for living” or “life’s purpose.” On the show I will speak with people in the healthcare field who love what they do. People who have advanced in their careers, evolved, molded them, maybe took non-traditional paths and reached professional Ikigai. They are truly living their purpose and loving their work. But how did they get there? What did it take? What lessons can we learn from them? That is how Prognosis Ikigai was born. Come join me on this journey…my wish for all of you is that you find it as well.

Reality TV stars are freezing their eggs on camera. Lawmakers in DC are debating federal protection for IVF. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in slick startups that market fertility treatments for all. But this rapid growth has revealed cracks in the system. Misconception, a new series from Bloomberg’s Prognosis, follows reporter Kristen V. Brown on her own intimate journey as she uncovers the business of fertility. Along the way, she finds a fractured industry — a profit-driven field of medicine that thrives on dueling messages of hope and fear as people gamble ...