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Bedside Rounds

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 hum... Read more

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73 - Seadragon

73 - Seadragon

What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a res... Read more

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72 - Problems

72 - Problems

American doctors spend the majority of their time during the day on the computer, either writing or reading notes about ... Read more

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