What does it mean to make a diagnosis? Are we always talking about the same thing? If you couldn’t make the lecture in person, here is a recording of the Grand Rounds I gave this year at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where I explore the changing definitions of diagnosis […]
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 a journey that involves King Nebuchadnezzar, citrus fruit, leeches, water pumps, ICD-10, Socrates, skepticism, and 1970’s computer programs designed to replace doctors. This is […]
What killed Charles II of Spain, the inbred monarch whose autopsy famously showed a heart the size of a peppercorn, a head full of water, and a bloodless body? This episode addresses that medical mystery by not only delving deep into Charles’ unfortunate past, but by exploring some of the […]
