• Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence
    Nov 28 2023

    The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and satisfying.

    This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only.

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    https://www.medscape.com/features/public/machine

    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Gavin Francis, MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), Department of Primary Care, Edinburgh University; General Practitioner, Department of Primary Care, Community Clinic, Edinburgh

    Free For All. https://www.gavinfrancis.com/books/free-for-all-why-the-nhs-is-worth-saving/

    Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence. https://www.gavinfrancis.com/books/recovery/

    Adventures in Human Being. https://www.gavinfrancis.com/books/adventures-in-human-being/

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    31 mins
  • His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf
    Oct 31 2023

    He's alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Director, Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Chasing My Cure. https://chasingmycure.com/

    His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html

    Every Cure. https://everycure.org/

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    37 mins
  • Physicians: Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will
    Oct 2 2023

    Dr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, Instructor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-director, iMED Initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

    SHORT CUTS: MEDICINE, Navigate Your Way Through Big Ideas, Adam Rodman, MD, MPH; ISBN: 9781785789946. https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/short-cuts-medicine/

    Bedside Rounds podcast. http://bedside-rounds.org/

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    28 mins
  • Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine
    Sep 7 2023

    A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, MD; https://www.abrahamverghese.org/books/

    Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Joseph P. Newhouse Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

    Random Acts of Medicine. Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708150/random-acts-of-medicine-by-anupam-b-jena-md-phd-and-christopher-worsham-md/

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  • How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic
    Aug 15 2023

    The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story.

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    The Autumn Ghost, Hannah Wunsch, MD; https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-autumn-ghost

    Why we can thank a polio emergency for the birth of intensive care; Nature 618, 234-235 (2023), Eric Topol; https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01830-3

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    35 mins
  • Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine
    Jul 25 2023

    The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

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    39 mins
  • AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It's Serious
    Jun 27 2023

    Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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  • Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'
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    Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel.

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