What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? ...
Read more »
What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom ...
Read more »
American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, ...
Read more »
In the past episode, cultural and medical historians Lakshmi Krishnan and Mike Neuss ...
Read more »You can claim CME and MOC credit through our partnership with the ACP
Read more »Why do doctors love Sherlock Holmes so much? In this episode, we’ll explore this endearing, nerdy obsession with the good detective, from Holmes’ medical origins and influences, the parallels with medical reasoning, and how the Holmes stories still influence medicine to this day. Plus a new #AdamAnswers about the origin […]
The physical exam has become a ritual of the modern doctor’s appointment, with pokes, prods, and strange tools. How did this become a normal thing to do? In this episode, I’ll discuss how the physical exam went from the medieval examination of a flask of urine to basically what we […]
Alexis St. Martin and William Beaumont have one of the strangest relationships in the history of medicine — a young French-Canadian fur trapper with a hole in his stomach from an errant shotgun blast and the American army physician who cared for him, and then made his own career by […]
The Four Humors are probably the longest-lasting idea in the history of medicine, even though they’ve been more or less completely abandoned for the past century or so. In this episode, we’ll explore how the ancient Greek idea of disease coming from imbalances in body fluids touched every aspect […]
