March 2, 2020
52 – The Rebuff
Over the past several centuries, the medical field has established a firm graph on the domain of the human body, with one very notable exception...
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February 4, 2020
Winter Shorts #4 – The Backlog
Did Hippocrates call consults for chest pain? Were there specialists in black bile? Where does our poetic terminology for heart and lung sounds come from?...
December 16, 2019
51 – Hero Worship
At the end of 2019, William Osler’s legacy is stronger than ever; he has been called the “Father of Modern Medicine” and held up as...
October 28, 2019
50 – I Know Nothing
What does it mean to know something in medicine? In this episode, we’ll explore this question by developing a historical framework of medical epistemologies in...
September 30, 2019
49 – The Ether Dome
The world before anesthesia was brutal -- surgeons inflicted torture on largely conscious patients, hoping to finish an operation as quickly as possible. But all...
August 28, 2019
48 – Micrographia
Germs are regarded today with a combination of fear and disgust. But mankind’s first introduction to the microbial world started off on a very different...
July 26, 2019
Summer Shorts #3 – Insulin Drama
Bedside Rounds is on a summer vacation! In the meantime, I'm joined by journalist Dan Weissmann of the podcast An Arm and a Leg to...
May 20, 2019
46 – Cause and Effect
Does smoking cause lung cancer? How could you ever know? The second in a three-part series on causality, I’m joined by Dr. Shoshana Herzig to...
April 22, 2019
45 – The French Disease at 500
In 1495, a mysterious and deadly plague struck the city of Naples. Over the next 500 years, the medical attempts to understand and treat this...
