September 3, 2023
74 – R2D2
What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the...
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June 26, 2023
73 – Seadragon
What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research...
March 20, 2023
72 – Problems
American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, either writing or reading notes about their patients; only a small...
January 16, 2023
71 – A Doctor’s Work, part 2
In the past episode, cultural and medical historians Lakshmi Krishnan and Mike Neuss discussed the history of the actual work of the doctor – Holmesian...
December 19, 2022
70 – A Doctor’s Work
What do doctors actually do? Are they Sherlockian detectives, hunting down obscure clues to solve intractable cases? Are they virtuosic experts, training for half a...
October 31, 2022
69 – The Database
How do doctors actually think? And if we can answer that, can we train a computer to do a better job? In the post-WW2 period,...
July 25, 2022
68 – The History
Internal medicine physicians like to pride ourselves on our clinical reasoning – the ability to talk to any patient, pluck out seemingly random bits of...
June 7, 2022
The Facemaker with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris (#histmedconsultservice)
Modern plastic surgery was born out of the horrors of trench warfare in World War I. In this episode, Adam interviews historian Lindsey Fitzharris about...
March 21, 2022
67 – Fever on the Frontier
In the early 19th century, a strange new illness, seemingly unknown to medicine, ravaged settler communities in the American Middle West. As fierce debates about...
