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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

Ranked #1

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54 - 1918 (guest episode with Hannah Abrams and Gaby Mayer)

54 - 1918 (guest episode with Hannah Abrams and Gaby Mayer)

The 1918 influenza pandemic, or the Spanish Flu, is the obvious parallel to the COVID-19 pandemic -- a worldwide plague ... Read more

18 May 2020

39mins

Ranked #2

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Summer Shorts #2 - Corrupted Blood

Summer Shorts #2 - Corrupted Blood

In 2005, a mysterious plague called Corrupted Blood hit the online denizens of World of Warcraft, ripping through cities... Read more

9 Sep 2017

13mins

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Winter Shorts #4 - The Backlog

Winter Shorts #4 - The Backlog

Did Hippocrates call consults for chest pain? Were there specialists in black bile? Where does our poetic terminology fo... Read more

4 Feb 2020

30mins

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45 - The French Disease at 500

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 unde... Read more

22 Apr 2019

1hr 9mins

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5 - Beachside Rounds

5 - Beachside Rounds

In Episode 5, I present Beachside Rounds, a fun activity for the whole family this summer, and a brief introduction into... Read more

16 Sep 2014

14mins

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53 - The Antonine Plague (guest episode with Liam Conway-Pearson)

53 - The Antonine Plague (guest episode with Liam Conway-Pearson)

Plagues have fascinated us since antiquity, but the Antonine Plague stands out because one of the most famous physicians... Read more

27 Apr 2020

31mins

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42 - The Lady with the Lamp

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 t... Read more

14 Jan 2019

39mins

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48 - Micrographia (FIXED AUDIO)

48 - Micrographia (FIXED AUDIO)

Because of dad brain, the original musical tracks for episode 48 were offset by almost 30 seconds (even more embarrassin... Read more

29 Aug 2019

39mins

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47 - The Criteria

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 thr... Read more

24 Jun 2019

44mins

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6 - The Number Needed to Treat

6 - The Number Needed to Treat

In this episode of Bedside Rounds, we discuss how risks and benefits are communicated by scientists and physicians, and ... Read more

19 Sep 2014

15mins

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34 - The Physical

34 - The Physical

The physical exam has become a ritual of the modern doctor’s appointment, with pokes, prods, and strange tools. How did ... Read more

4 May 2018

33mins

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36 - Filth Parties

36 - Filth Parties

The southern United States was hit by a dramatic epidemic of a mysterious disease called pellagra in the early twentieth... Read more

5 Jul 2018

51mins

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7 - The Medicine of the Empire Strikes Back

7 - The Medicine of the Empire Strikes Back

In Episode 7, we take you to a galaxy far, far away to explore the medicine of the best Star Wars film, the Empire Strik... Read more

26 Sep 2014

18mins

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39 - The White Plague

39 - The White Plague

Tuberculosis has been humanity’s oldest and greatest killer. Starting at the turn of the nineteenth century, the White P... Read more

8 Oct 2018

41mins

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Summer Shorts #3 - Insulin Drama

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 an... Read more

26 Jul 2019

22mins

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12 - P.I.M.P.

12 - P.I.M.P.

Pimping ain't easy, especially when it happens on rounds. Where did the peculiar medical tradition of "pimping" come fro... Read more

31 Mar 2015

14mins

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27 - The First Opiate Epidemic

27 - The First Opiate Epidemic

The United States is in the midst of an epidemic of addiction and overdose deaths due to opiate painkillers. Its causes ... Read more

6 Oct 2017

28mins

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40 - Phage

40 - Phage

Bacteriophages -- viruses that target and kill bacteria -- were one of the most promising medical treatments of the earl... Read more

12 Nov 2018

52mins

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9 - Laennec's Cylinder

9 - Laennec's Cylinder

In the beginning of a string of podcasts about sound in medicine, Bedside Rounds goes back to the beginning, with the in... Read more

18 Jan 2015

16mins

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25 - Salt Water

25 - Salt Water

Intravenous or IV fluids are a ubiquitous treatment in medicine, and one of the most cost-effective treatments that we h... Read more

1 Aug 2017

21mins

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