Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence
The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewardin...
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Medicine and the Machine
Join Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, as they interview experts on the hottest topics in healthcare ranging from COVID-19 t...
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20 of 81 episodesHis Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf
He's alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have. This podcast...
Physicians: Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will
Dr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman. This podcast is intended for US...
Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine
A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death. This podcast is intended for US healthcare profes...
How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic
The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in...
Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine
The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list. This podcast is intended for US healthcare pro...
AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It's Serious
Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals on...
Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'
Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest...
There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care
Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another. This podcast is intended...
Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation
Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods? This po...
How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again
ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help the...
Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable
Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions. This podcast is i...
To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air
Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals h...
How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials
Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence. This podcast i...
How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass
Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. This podcast is intended...
The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19
Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today. This podcast is intended for US healthc...
We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID
Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel. This pod...
Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?
An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses rese...
Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella
Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long...
It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets
Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine. This podcast is intended for...