Clinical questions, Mayo Clinic answers.
Mayo Clinic Talks is a clinician-facing medical education show built around direct questions and specialist answers. Recent episodes move from young-onset Parkinson’s disease and retinal disorders to GLP-1 weight loss therapy, anticoagulant choice, sleep, diabetes, and healthy aging.
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Mayo Clinic Talks is a clinician-oriented medical education show built around focused conversations with Mayo Clinic physicians. It uses a familiar consult structure. A clinical issue is named, practical questions are put on the table, and a specialist works through what primary care clinicians should notice, consider, and act on. Recent episodes show the range clearly. Parkinson’s disease in children and young adults raises genetic, secondary, and treatable causes alongside the usual diagnostic criteria for Parkinsonism. Diabetes episodes compare newer therapies, including semaglutide, tirzepatide, SGLT2 drugs, and glucose monitoring in the context of patient tolerance and outcomes. Healthy aging is handled through function, cognition, independence, risk factors, and body-system trajectories. Sleep disorder discussions include obstructive sleep apnea, insomnia, consumer tracking devices, and orthosomnia. Retinal disorders connect eye findings with systemic disease, stroke workup, hypertension, diabetes, thrombophilia, and smoking risk. The GLP-1 weight loss series looks at medication physiology and the importance of lifestyle changes. The vascular medicine series turns anticoagulant choice into a practical comparison of warfarin and direct-acting oral anticoagulants. Bell’s palsy coverage addresses persistent facial asymmetry and surgical treatment options. The show is technical, but its questions keep returning to clinical use: who is at risk, what symptoms matter, when referral is appropriate, which therapies differ, and what patients need to understand. Its Mayo Clinic Proceedings episodes add another layer, connecting journal material to conditions that appear often in medical practice. The pacing is orderly. The tone is professional and collegial. It assumes comfort with medical vocabulary, but it does not wander into academic abstraction for its own sake. Instead, the show treats specialty knowledge as something that should improve recognition, counseling, and care decisions. For PlayNext, its appeal is clear: it is a dependable route into current clinical thinking across many common and consequential medical topics.
Made for: Suits a listener who works in or studies clinical care and wants specialty-level discussion kept close to primary care decisions. It is best for those comfortable with medical terminology and patient-management tradeoffs.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its consult-like structure: practical questions are answered by Mayo Clinic physicians with attention to diagnosis, risk, referral, and treatment choices. Its breadth spans neurology, endocrinology, sleep medicine, ophthalmology, vascular medicine, aging, and surgical follow-up.
Timely consultations relevant for family medicine, primary care, and general internal medicine topics for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and residents. Offering CME credit for most episodes at https://ce.mayo.edu/podcast. Produced by @MayoMedEd.
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A clinician-focused guide to recognizing subtle Parkinsonism and considering treatable causes in younger patients.
Mayo Clinic Talks takes up a clinical question that can be easy to miss: how Parkinson's disease, usually associated with older patients, can present in children and young adults.
A grounded diabetes-therapy review where access, tolerance, and glucose data carry as much weight as headline results.
Mayo Clinic Talks brings diabetes treatment down to the choices primary care clinicians often have to make: what the evidence suggests, what insurance will cover, and what a patient can tolerate. Dr.
A clinically grounded look at healthy aging, warning signs, and the habits that can support a healthier later life.
Healthy aging is treated here as a practical clinical question: how to tell expected change from signs that someone is slipping behind the curve. Mayo Clinic Talks gives Dr.
A grounded clinical look at sleep problems, anxious tracking, and where consumer sleep data falls short.
Sleep problems shift from background annoyance to clinical issue in this PlayNext episode, with attention to their effects on mental and physical health. Daryl Chutka of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, talks with Dr.
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A Mayo Clinic urologist discusses current recommendations for prostate cancer screening, including PSA testing and the role of digital rectal exams.
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Mayo Clinic ophthalmologist and retinal surgeon Brittany Scruggs tells host Darrell Chutka why diabetic retinopathy can be severe despite 20-20 vision and no symptoms.
On Mayo Clinic Talks, host Daryl Chutka and preventive cardiologist Steven Kopetsky review updated hyperlipidemia care, including risk assessment and newer treatments.
Daryl Chutka and pulmonologist Catherine Del Valle explain how dyspnea can signal hepatopulmonary syndrome or portopulmonary hypertension in people with cirrhosis and portal hypertension.
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