48 - Micrographia
Germs are regarded today with a combination of fear and disgust. But mankind's first introduction to the microbial world started off on a very different foot. In this episode, as part of a larger seri...
28 Aug 201939min
Summer Shorts #3 - Insulin Drama
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 about the tawdry history of the discovery of insulin.
26 Juli 201922min
47 - The Criteria
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 on Bradford Hill and Doll's attempts to prove that smoking ca...
24 Juni 201944min
46 - Cause and Effect
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 to discuss how Austin Bradford Hill and Richard Doll set out ...
20 Maj 201938min
45 - The French Disease at 500
In 1495, a mysterious and deadly plague struck the city of Naples. Over the next 500 years, the medical attempts to understand and treat this new disease -- syphilis -- would mold and shape medicine i...
22 Apr 20191h 9min
44 - The Great Smog
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 cigarette-smoking link and causality, this episode looks at...
25 Mars 201942min
43 - The Cursed
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 myst...
18 Feb 201943min
42 - The Lady with the Lamp
Florence Nightingale stands as one of the most important reformers of 19th century medicine -- a woman whose belief in the power of reason and statistical thinking would critically shape the both the ...
14 Jan 201939min
