Dr. David Hilden (MD, MPH, FACP) is a practicing Internal Medicine physician and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare (HCMC), Hennepin County’s premier safety net hospital in downtown Minneapolis. Join him and his colleagues for expert knowledge, inspiring stories, and thoughtful insight from the front lines of today’s hospitals and clinics. They also take your questions, too! Have you ever just wanted to ask a doctor…well…anything? Email us at [email protected], call us at 612-873-TALK (8255) or tweet us @DrDavidHilden. We look forward to building on the success of our storied radio talk show (13 years!) with our new podcast, and we hope you'll join us. In the meantime, be healthy, and be well.
08/31/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E23 - Beyond the Common Cold: Understanding Pneumonia
With Special Guest: Dr. Jessica Oswald, DO
Pneumonia! It's something we've all heard of - or maybe even h…
08/17/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E22 - Why Medicaid Matters for Everyone...
With Special Guest: Susie Emmert - Sr. Director of Advocacy and Public Policy
It's probably pretty safe to say that th…
08/03/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E21 - The Small, but Mighty ... THYROID!
With Special Guest: Dr. Sreekant Avula, MBBS
Sometimes, the why behind how we feel is a little hard to pinpoint. Are yo…
07/20/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E20 - Sweet Talk: Decoding Diabetes
With Special Guest: Dr. Allison Estrada, MD
Think about this: 1 in every 10 Americans is living with Diabetes in one form or…
07/06/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E19 - Hunger, Health, and Hope: Tackling Food Insecurity
With Special Guests: Dr. Dianna Cutts, MD, and Amy Harris
It’s pretty hard to concentrate, work, or pret…
06/22/25
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S04_E18 - The ABCs of COPD
With Special Guest: Dr. Caroline Davis, MD
Did you know that 6.5% of Americans have physician-diagnosed Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Dise…
06/08/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E17 - Bedside Bots! AI Scribing in Healthcare
With Special Guest: Brian Imdieke, MAN, ANP-BC
Ever feel like your doctor is paying more attention to their keyboa…
05/25/25
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S04_E16 - We're Talkin' Speech-Language Pathology
With Special Guest: Adam Terrell, MS
When it comes to the field of Speech Pathology, we might tend to think it's al…
05/11/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E15 - Heat, Haze & How Climate Is Affecting Our Health
With Special Guest: Beth Stegora, PT, DPT
As global temperatures rise and extreme weather events become mo…
04/27/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E14 - Gut Check: Understanding Crohn's Disease
With Special Guest: Dr. Jason Eckmann, MD
We've all had a stomach bug at some point in our lives, and it's probabl…
04/13/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E13 - We Need to Talk (About Menopause)
If there was something that had profound effects on more than half the population for decades of their lives, well, that …
03/30/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E12 - Bipolar Disorder: The Ups, Downs, and In-Betweens...
Bipolar disorder affects millions of people worldwide - and actually, a higher percentage of people i…
03/16/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E11 - Why Are Kids Always Sick?! Let's Talk About It.
If you have (or know) a kid, you've probably wondered: "How can such a tiny human catch so many illnesses?"…
03/02/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E10 - Controlled Chaos: A Day in the Life of an Emergency Nurse
There are a lot of important people in healthcare, but the medical system itself simply would not…
02/16/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E09 - Hypertension: Avoiding the Silent Killer
High Blood Pressure, or hypertension, is often called The Silent Killer because it can wreak havoc on our bodies, …
02/02/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E08 - The MS Journey: From Symptoms to Solutions
Did you know that 1,000,000 people in the U.S. alone are living with Multiple Sclerosis? We've all likely heard…
01/19/25
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E07 - Let's Learn About Lupus!
Did you know that in 2024, over 200,000 people in the U.S. alone had Lupus? It's a condition that many of us have likely heard of…
01/05/24
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E06 - How to Live to be 100 (or Die Trying...)
When it comes to our longevity, there's certainly no shortage of advice out there. We'll often get an earful about…
12/22/24
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E05 - A is for Alcohol. A Primer.
Are you doing a "Dry January"? Do your family gatherings get a little more colorful when the wine starts flowing? Like it or …
12/08/24
The Healthy Matters Podcast
S04_E04 - Decoding Food Labels
Our diets are a major contributor to our overall health, so of course it's important to know what's in the food we eat. And what bett…