Episodes 23
Avg. Duration 20m
Activity Highly Active
Since Jul 2023
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Months
Format
Episodic
Consistency
46%
Hosting
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About This Podcast

Thoughts by writer and activist Emily Newberry

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Recent Episodes

Episode 23 How The American Healthcare System Arose Part II

Mar 13, 2026 21m

In this episode of Butterfly Arose I try to be honest about a theory or belief about how complex systems interact and grow becomes apparent as I learn from Paul Starr's book The Social Transformation…

Episode 22 How the American Healthcare System Arose Part I

Feb 16, 2026 25m

For this Episode of Butterfly Arose I begin to look at the founding of America's health care system from the beginning of European immigration to the early 1930's. What were the major factors in this…

Episode 21 Thoughts on System Level Effects in Healthcare

Jan 12, 2026 24m

In this Episode of Butterfly Arose I begin to look at the larger system of medical care in the Unted States. I use my own experiences with to keep from getting too much into ethereal ideas and to…

Episode 20 Combining Patient Stories With Statistics

Oct 28, 2025 27m

In this episode of Butterfly Arose I talk about an important way researchers turn qualitative information into quantitative information, and some of the challenges when we try to spread improvements…

Episode 19 Storytelling as Valuable Scientific Information, Some Gifts and Challenges

Sep 28, 2025 18m

In the episode of Butterfly Arose, I use specific examples from my own experiences to show why patient stories are important to improving the quality of health care. I also use them to demonstrate…

Episode 18 Active Change Agents Outside of a Research Environment

Jul 23, 2025 23m

In this episode of Butterfly Arose, I challenge you to appreciate the world of complexity we uncover when we actively try to improve an organization. Using the example of baking bread I show how…

Episode 17 Going Deeper Into Person and Family Centered Care Part II

Jun 23, 2025 24m

In Episode 16 of Butterfly Arose I used my personal experiences as a patient partner volunteer to talk about the value of Person and Family Centered Care from the patient and family perspective. But…

Episode 16 Going Deeper Into Person and Family Centered Care

Apr 28, 2025 17m

In Episode 14 of Butterfly Arose, I gave a surface introduction to what is called Person and Family Centered Care, or PFCC. In this episode I am going to go into more depth on this. I have been both…

Episode 15 Medical System Complexity from Professionals Viewpoint

Mar 26, 2025 25m

In the last two episodes of Butterfly Arose we looked at our medical system's gifts and challenges from the patient point of view. But this system is, indeed, complex. To gain a better understanding…

Episode 14 The Patient Perspective in Health Care Part 2

Feb 05, 2025 26m

In the last episode I talked about the experiences of four people; three who are living after treatment for cancer, and one who recovered from debilitating symptoms that were at first misdiagnosed as…

Episode 13 Patient Perspectives in Health Care Part I

Jan 12, 2025 24m

Just a note to listeners of my podcast. I recently figured out how to make both my audio and written versions easy to find in the same place. All links to books, articles and videos that I reference…

Episode 12 Taking the Complex World of Medicine Seriously Part II

Oct 21, 2024 21m

This episode of Butterfly Arose continues learning from Doctor Danielle Ofri in her book When We Do Harm, A Doctor Confronts Medical Error. Where the last episode looked at procedural errors, this…

Episode 11 Taking the Complex World of Medicine Seriously Part 1

Sep 24, 2024 28m

You can find When We Do Harm by Danielle Ofri, MD HERE.Different, Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal can be found HERE.T. A. Brennan, Incidence of Adverse Events and…

Episode 10 The Challenges of Taking Action in A Complicated World Part 3

Aug 18, 2024 22m

As Nature Made Him; The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl book by John Colapinto can be found HERE.The Man Who Invented Gender, Engaging the Ideas of John Money by Terry Goldie can be found HERE.You can…

Episode 9 The Challenge of Taking Action in a Complex World Part 2

Jul 24, 2024 12m

Wikipedia article on the term tomboy can be found HERE.As Nature Made Him; The Boy Who Was Raised As A Girl book by John Colapinto can be found HERE.Pacific Center for Sex and Society has a list of…

Episode 8 The Case of David Reimer; The Challenge of Taking Action in a Complicated World Part 1

Jun 19, 2024 23m

In this episode I talk about the case of a person whose life got caught up in a confluence of medical mistakes and errors that took place in a cultural space where sex and gender are surrounded by…

Episode 7 On Intersex Part 2

Apr 12, 2024 21m

You can find the book Fixing Sex by Katrina Karkazis HERE. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

Episode 5 How Beliefs can Affect Transgender People from One Transwoman’s Experiences

Mar 06, 2024 21m

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Episode 6 On Intersex Part 1

Feb 27, 2024 12m

You can find the book Nobody Needs to Know, A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis HERE. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at wwiibaby.substack.com/subscribe

Episode 4 On Sex and Sexuality

Oct 15, 2023 15m

In this episode I talk about Frans de Waals research into sex and sexuality among nonhuman animals to help us understand ourselves. Get full access to WW II Baby Substack at…

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