"BONUS" Episode: Dr. William Beaumont and a Famous Gutshot (Radio Drama)
This episode will be a deviation from our normal format. Unfortunately, the entire episode we'd recorded for release this week was lost to the cyberspace aether. A whole episode just gone from exist...
11 Maj 202327min
Osteopathic Medicine and its Founder, A.T. Still
As the resident Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) on this podcast, Max will lead his MD colleagues through an examination of the roots of osteopathic medicine from its founding by Andrew Taylor Still, its q...
27 Apr 20231h 23min
The History of Emergency Medicine
We'll look inward this week to talk about the history of our own specialty as emergency physicians. People may not be aware that the practice of emergency medicine is relatively new in the house of m...
13 Apr 202354min
The Fungus Among Us: Historically Bad Fungal Infections
With the success of "The Last of Us" show, we thought we'd take some time to look at historically important cases of fungal infection. We'll investigate a possible explanation for all those witch tri...
30 Mars 20231h 5min
Historical Medical Case Discussion: The Death of Harry Houdini
There are many misconceptions and myths surrounding the death of the great magician and skeptic, Harry Houdini. Though many believe he may have died during one of his dangerous escape performances, t...
16 Mars 20231h 12min
Early Beginnings of the ICU and Critical Care Medicine
In this week's episode we'll trace back the beginnings of the modern intensive care unit and critical care medicine as we know it. Much of this arose thanks to two particular infectious diseases--pol...
2 Mars 202357min
A History of Diabetes and the Amazing Discovery of Insulin
We're back! Many people know that insulin is an important part of the treatment for diabetes. In this episode we'll talk about how insulin was discovered and first used to treat a disease that, thr...
16 Feb 202356min
Show Update / Schedule Change
Apologies but we'll have to delay the episode another week. Technical issues + scheduling conflicts + illness have all made for difficulty getting the episode done on our usual schedule. Also, the...
9 Feb 202356s
