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Bedside Rounds is a tiny podcast about fascinating stories in clinical medicine. We discuss the weird, wonderful, and human stories that have affected patients and their doctors throughout h...
What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular t...
What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research base in Antarc...
American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, either writing or reading notes about their patients; only...
In the past episode, cultural and medical historians Lakshmi Krishnan and Mike Neuss discussed the history of the actual work of the doctor...
What do doctors actually do? Are they Sherlockian detectives, hunting down obscure clues to solve intractable cases? Are they virtuosic expe...
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, a group of ico...
Internal medicine physicians like to pride ourselves on our clinical reasoning – the ability to talk to any patient, pluck out seemingly ran...
Modern plastic surgery was born out of the horrors of trench warfare in World War I. In this episode, Adam interviews historian Lindsey Fitz...
In the early 19th century, a strange new illness, seemingly unknown to medicine, ravaged settler communities in the American Middle West. As...
Burnout seems to stalk healthcare workers; between a third and a half of doctors and nurses had symptoms of burnout BEFORE the COVID-19 pand...
How can we medically tell whether or not someone is alive or dead? The answer is much more complicated than you'd think. In this episode, wh...
During World War II, the US Army launched a seemingly routine experiment to find the ideal way to screen soldiers for tuberculosis. Jacob Ye...
What does it mean when different physicians disagree about a diagnosis? I am joined by Dr. Shani Herzig as we explore this issue in the seco...
Elizabeth Blackwell -- the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States -- and her sister Emily Blackwell are some of the most...
Words matter. At its best, etymology gives us insight not only into the origins of words, but why they remain so important today, especially...
For a special holiday treat, we're going to explore two tales of salmonella disease detectives -- the first about Mary Mallon ("Typhoid Mary...
Diagnosis is arguably the most important job of a physician. But what does it actually mean to make a diagnosis? In this episode, we'll expl...
In this episode, I talk about my podcasting journey -- how I started Bedside Rounds for inspiration during a low period in residency, how it...
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the racial health disparities in the United States, with markedly increased mortality especially among Black...
In August of 1918, a horrific second wave of the Spanish Flu crashed across the world. In this episode, the third of a four-part series expl...
The 1889 Russian Flu was the first influenza pandemic in an increasingly globalized world. In this episode, the second of a two-parter on ho...
This bonus episode introduces episode four of the Curious Clinicians, about Vincent Van Gogh and digitalis. The Curious Clinicians is a new...
Where did cinchona, the first medication to cure malaria, come from? This episode explores the murky history of the bark of the fever tree a...
The 1918 influenza pandemic, or the Spanish Flu, is the obvious parallel to the COVID-19 pandemic -- a worldwide plague attacking a scientif...
Plagues have fascinated us since antiquity, but the Antonine Plague stands out because one of the most famous physicians in Western history...
As the COVID-19 pandemic increasingly spreads across the globe, Bedside Rounds is going on hiatus. This short message explains why and gives...
Over the past several centuries, the medical field has established a firm graph on the domain of the human body, with one very notable excep...
Did Hippocrates call consults for chest pain? Were there specialists in black bile? Where does our poetic terminology for heart and lung sou...
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 the para...
What does it mean to know something in medicine? In this episode, we'll explore this question by developing a historical framework of medica...
The world before anesthesia was brutal -- surgeons inflicted torture on largely conscious patients, hoping to finish an operation as quickly...
Because of dad brain, the original musical tracks for episode 48 were offset by almost 30 seconds (even more embarrassing, because I actuall...
Germs are regarded today with a combination of fear and disgust. But mankind's first introduction to the microbial world started off on a ve...
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 talk abou...
Can we ever know what causes a chronic disease? In this episode, I'm joined again by Dr. Shoshana Herzig to finish a three-part miniseries o...
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 t...
In 1495, a mysterious and deadly plague struck the city of Naples. Over the next 500 years, the medical attempts to understand and treat thi...
What was behind the mysterious increase in lung cancer deaths at the turn of the 20th century? The first of a three-parter investigating the...
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, an...
Florence Nightingale stands as one of the most important reformers of 19th century medicine -- a woman whose belief in the power of reason a...
Mesmerism has had an outsize influence on medicine, despite the rapid rise and fall of its inventor Dr. Franz Mesmer and hostility from the...
Bacteriophages -- viruses that target and kill bacteria -- were one of the most promising medical treatments of the early 20th century, and...
Tuberculosis has been humanity's oldest and greatest killer. Starting at the turn of the nineteenth century, the White Plague was decimating...
The first population study in history was born out of a dramatic debate involving leeches, "medical vampires," professional rivalries, murde...
Many podcasts start with an "Episode 0", basically a mission statement for the podcast. Well, better late than never! This episode explores...
For thousands of years, bloodletting was the standard of care for any number of medical conditions, but at the turn of the nineteenth centur...
The southern United States was hit by a dramatic epidemic of a mysterious disease called pellagra in the early twentieth century. This episo...
Why do doctors love Sherlock Holmes so much? In this episode, we'll explore this endearing, nerdy obsession with the good detective, from Ho...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered The Adventure of the Speckled Band to be his best Holmes story, and Adam does too. Meant to be a companion...
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...