“We’re spending ourselves to death in order to be healthy.” So says science and medical journalist Laurie Garrett. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1996 for her reporting from Zaire on the Ebola virus outbreak, Garrett talks with her former Newsday colleague, David Zinman, about the crisis in U.S. healthcare and the arrogance of Americans who think that dangerous diseases are “somebody else’s problem.” She also tells the compelling story of the arrest, subsequent torture, and recent release from Libya of the “Benghazi 6”— five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor.

Host> David Zinman, Chautauquan, author, playwright, former reporter for Newsday and the Associated Press, and columnist for the Horry Independent (South Carolina)

Guest> Laurie Garrett, best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

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