Bedside Rounds

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

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

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

In 1495, a mysterious and deadly plague struck the city of Naples. Over the next 500 years, the medical attempts to unde... Read more

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

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

Florence Nightingale stands as one of the most important reformers of 19th century medicine -- a woman whose belief in t... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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