Bedside Manners 12: The Beginning
Humans have been mothering and midwifing since the beginning of humanity. Why, then, did something so natural become so fiercely under fire? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9 Juni 202324min
Bedside Manners 11: Back to Health
Florence Nightingale set out to change the course of nursing as the world knew it… and ended up getting more than she ever bargained for. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
26 Maj 202325min
Bedside Manners 10: Dark Matter
Everyone poops. And for thousands of years, as civilizations have risen and fallen, humans have been trying to figure out exactly what to do with it all. The story of waste is one of ingenuity and cla...
12 Maj 202321min
Bedside Manners 9: Mind Games
A doctor might dismiss your concerns by saying that something is all in your head…as if the brain doesn’t play host to many kinds of illness. Some of our oldest corpses bear physical evidence that di...
28 Apr 202326min
Bedside Manners 8: Heartwrench
Poets have been writing about the madness of love for thousands of years. We love to be in it; we hate to be without it. But what if this wasn’t just hyperbole, and there is something indeed bigger ha...
14 Apr 202327min
Bedside Manners 7: The Making of a Man
In the world of healing, there have always been folks willing to make money off of the suffering of others. And it was often seen that the more shameful the secret, the more profitable these problems ...
31 Mars 202329min
Bedside Manners 6: Hungry for a Cure
The human body has long been a battleground for morality. And one of the places that these ideas have shown up might be surprising to you: the dinner table. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i...
17 Mars 202328min
Bedside Manners 5: Slice ‘n Dice
For centuries, cutting into the human body was strictly forbidden. In fact, for a long time, medical schools taught aspiring physcians not to touch their patients. You can imagine how helpful this was...
3 Mars 202325min
