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American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, ...
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Read more »The eclipse is coming! Get out your eclipse glasses (or your camera obscura, if you didn’t prepare like me), and enjoy a review of the medical literature on eclipses with our guest Dr. Avi O’Glasser in our first summer short. Beyond solar retinopathy (a very good reason to not look […]
Intravenous or IV fluids are a ubiquitous treatment in medicine, and one of the most cost-effective treatments that we have, costing less than a cup of coffee in the developing world. But it wasn’t always this way. In this episode, called Salt Water, we go back to the second great […]
What makes a disease? And who gets to decide? Producer Cam Steele brings us a story that spans migrating uteruses in ancient Egypt, a disease that makes slaves want to run away in the antebellum south, and the accidental discovery of an erection pill while trying to treat heart disease. […]
A darkened laboratory with an eery green glow; a photograph of the bones of a woman’s hand published on the front pages of newspapers throughout the globe; mysterious rays that promise to change medicine forever but also cause horrific disease in their champions and pioneers. In this episode, called […]
