Season 12

A woman walks into a clinic, she’s eight months pregnant: tired, pale, anemic. Her last pregnancy ended early—an emergency C-section at 32 weeks. This time, her obstetrician happens to flip through an old chart and finds a diagnosis so rare, most doctors will never encounter it. In this episode, follow a multidisciplinary team’s race to design a complex care plan that, despite many challenges, keeps mother and baby safe.

A young man walks into a hemophilia treatment center. He’s limping, certain his ankle is bleeding again—same as always. But this time, the team discovers the pain may be coming from something else, something that isn’t in the patient’s chart. In this story, we explore the many ways and forms pain can present, and the importance of treating the whole person.

Transitioning hemophilia care from pediatric to adult care sounds simple enough. At home, though, it can be complicated. Explore how hemophilia treatment centers put transition care into practice to help teens and young adults with bleeding disorders navigate taking ownership of their treatment and their first steps toward independence.

A young boy goes to urgent care, he’s fallen and his knee is swollen – likely a soft tissue trauma or at worst a minor joint bleed. He’s given a brace, told to rest. At follow up, everything is as expected – until a nurse reviews his chart and sees the child has hemophilia. We’re no longer talking about a minor joint bleed, we’re talking about a joint bleed, that, if left untreated, could lead to permanent damage.

A young man calls his doctor – he has hemophilia and joint pain – he knows what this is, he’s had it before: it’s a knee bleed. He’s given himself three doses of blood clotting factor, but it’s not working. When he arrives at the hemophilia treatment center, his care team takes a closer look – and what they find will change everything.