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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...
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