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Bedside Rounds

Adam Rodman

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...

Bedside Rounds Podcast Guide

Listen to Bedside Rounds, a Science & Medicine podcast by Adam Rodman. Stream 86 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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Episodes

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74 - R2D2

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...

33:22Sep 3, 2023

73 - Seadragon

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...

27:57Jun 26, 2023

72 - Problems

American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, either writing or reading notes about their patients; only...

52:03Mar 20, 2023

71 - A Doctor's Work, part 2

In the past episode, cultural and medical historians Lakshmi Krishnan and Mike Neuss discussed the history of the actual work of the doctor...

37:47Jan 16, 2023

70 - A Doctor's Work

What do doctors actually do? Are they Sherlockian detectives, hunting down obscure clues to solve intractable cases? Are they virtuosic expe...

49:14Dec 19, 2022

69 - The Database

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...

48:45Oct 31, 2022

68 - The History

Internal medicine physicians like to pride ourselves on our clinical reasoning – the ability to talk to any patient, pluck out seemingly ran...

39:52Jul 25, 2022

67 - Fever on the Frontier

In the early 19th century, a strange new illness, seemingly unknown to medicine, ravaged settler communities in the American Middle West. As...

48:51Mar 21, 2022

66 - Burnout

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...

53:59Jan 8, 2022

65 - The Last Breath

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...

40:31Nov 5, 2021

64 - A Vicious Circle

During World War II, the US Army launched a seemingly routine experiment to find the ideal way to screen soldiers for tuberculosis. Jacob Ye...

40:25Oct 4, 2021

63 - Signals

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...

40:37Aug 23, 2021

62 - The Sisters Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell -- the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States -- and her sister Emily Blackwell are some of the most...

41:44May 10, 2021

61 - Etymologies

Words matter. At its best, etymology gives us insight not only into the origins of words, but why they remain so important today, especially...

39:15Mar 29, 2021

60 - Santa's Salmonella

For a special holiday treat, we're going to explore two tales of salmonella disease detectives -- the first about Mary Mallon ("Typhoid Mary...

38:22Dec 24, 2020

59 - Cry of the Suffering Organs

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...

43:21Nov 30, 2020

58 - The Original (Antigenic) Sin

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the racial health disparities in the United States, with markedly increased mortality especially among Black...

55:57Oct 26, 2020

57 - The Second Wave

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...

45:18Aug 31, 2020

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