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Bedside Rounds

by Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, FACP

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  • 74 - R2D2

    September 3, 2023 · 33 min

    What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023, but we've been…

  • 73 - Seadragon

    June 26, 2023 · 28 min

    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 Antarctica in the middle of the winter – develops a surgical abdomen? This dilemma was the impetus to…

  • 72 - Problems

    March 20, 2023 · 52 min

    American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, either writing or reading notes about their patients; only a small fraction is spent with the human beings in their care. Technology itself – especially the…

  • 71 - A Doctor's Work, part 2

    January 16, 2023 · 38 min

    In the past episode, cultural and medical historians Lakshmi Krishnan and Mike Neuss discussed the history of the actual work of the doctor – Holmesian detective, data entry clerk, or something else altogether. In this episode, we conclude…

  • 70 - A Doctor's Work

    December 19, 2022 · 49 min

    What do doctors actually do? Are they Sherlockian detectives, hunting down obscure clues to solve intractable cases? Are they virtuosic experts, training for half a lifetime to bring the latest science to bear to cure disease? Or are they…

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  • 69 - The Database

    October 31, 2022 · 49 min

    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 iconoclastic physicians set about to redefine the nature and structure of clinical reasoning and tried…

  • 68 - The History

    July 25, 2022 · 40 min

    Internal medicine physicians like to pride ourselves on our clinical reasoning – the ability to talk to any patient, pluck out seemingly random bits of information, and make a mystery diagnosis. But how does this actually work? In this…

  • The Facemaker with Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris (#histmedconsultservice)

    June 7, 2022 · 52 min

    Modern plastic surgery was born out of the horrors of trench warfare in World War I. In this episode, Adam interviews historian Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book The Facemaker, about the life of surgeon Harold Gillies and his quest to…

  • 67 - Fever on the Frontier

    March 21, 2022 · 49 min

    In the early 19th century, a strange new illness, seemingly unknown to medicine, ravaged settler communities in the American Middle West. As fierce debates about this new disease, now called milk sickness, raged – was it from toxic swamp…

  • 66 - Burnout

    January 8, 2022 · 54 min

    Burnout seems to stalk healthcare workers; between a third and a half of doctors and nurses had symptoms of burnout BEFORE the COVID-19 pandemic. Major medical associations have recognized burnout as a serious problem and the condition is…

  • 65 - The Last Breath

    November 5, 2021 · 41 min

    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, which is a live podcast I gave with Tony Breu at the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of…

  • 64 - A Vicious Circle

    October 4, 2021 · 40 min

    During World War II, the US Army launched a seemingly routine experiment to find the ideal way to screen soldiers for tuberculosis. Jacob Yerushalmy, the statistician in charge of this project, would succeed at this task -- and end up…

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About the show

Bedside Rounds is a storytelling podcast about medical history and medicine's intersections with society and culture. Host Adam Rodman seeks to tell a few of these weird, wonderful, and intensely human stories that have made modern medicine.