Medicine and the Machine
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Medicine and the Machine
Join Medscape editor-in-chief Eric Topol, MD, and master storyteller and clinician Abraham Verghese, MD, as they interview experts on the hottest topics in healthcare ranging from COVID-19 to social determinants of health to bringing humanity back to medicine.
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Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence
The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and sati...

His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf
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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Physicians: Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will
Dr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman.
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Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine
A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.
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How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic
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 incre...

Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine
The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list.
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AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It's Serious
Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride.
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Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'
Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel.

There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care
Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another.
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Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation
Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods?
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How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again
ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain t...

Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable
Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.
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To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air
Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can...

How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials
Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.
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How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass
Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.
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The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19
Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today.
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We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID
Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel.
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Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?
An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research quest...

Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella
Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID.

It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets
Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine.
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How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain
Pain is central to every specialty, and we all played a part in the opioid crisis, says Dr Haider Warraich, author of The Song of Our Scars: The Untol...

Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead
Stanford's Benjamin Pinsky on the potential for even more transmissible and pathogenic versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to arise.
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Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'
Why we should be shifting into high gear on treatments for long COVID and a pan-beta-coronavirus vaccine.
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The Medical Model Doesn't Work for Mental Health
Former NIMH Director Tom Insel explains how the medical model has failed the field of psychiatry.
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Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now
Epidemiologist-engineer Michael Mina thinks diagnostics belong in the hands of the people.
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'Historic Botched Job': The Narrative Mechanics of Failed COVID Communication From CDC and Elsewhere
Randy Olson on what science can learn from Hollywood about communicating with the masses.
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COVID Vaccines for the Under 5's: The 'Finish Line' We Need
'Your Local Epidemiologist' Katelyn Jetelina translates the COVID science for millions.
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Dr. Glaucomflecken on Why We Can All Use a Laugh Right Now
Two bouts with cancer and a cardiac arrest at age 35 haven't stopped this ophthalmologist-comedian from becoming a social media phenomenon for hilario...

2021: Where We Succeeded, Where We Failed in Pandemic Year Two
Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese reflect on 2021's extraordinary podcast guests, and how we excelled in science and healthcare but were tripped up by t...

Former White House COVID Advisor: We Can All Safely Experience Joy This Holiday Season
Andy Slavitt believes we've made real progress, despite overselling vaccines and the public's dismay with rapidly changing science.
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Dr Kimberly Manning on Twitter Teaching, Vaccine Deliberation, and Her Own Secret Sauce
Her message to academia: If you really want diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine, put your money where your mouth is.
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How Pediatrician Rachel Pearson Brings Along Vaccine-Hesitant Parents
Talking about how being vaccinated will let school-aged kids get back to normal life is paramount.
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Dr Ebony Hilton Wants to Talk Herself Out of a Job
If you want her to stop talking about racial and gender disparities in healthcare, fix the system.
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How Machines Bring Humanity Back to Medicine
Dr Eric Topol explores the next 20 years of progress in artificial intelligence with expert Kai-Fu Lee.
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Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar: 'Seeing the End of the Pandemic Is Premature'
Jeremy Farrar explains why we must expect new variants, and why he'd like to give away his booster shot.
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A Leading Virologist Reveals His Two 'Nightmare' Viruses
To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/958292
Virologist Florian Krammer tal...

'Coma' Author Robin Cook on Medical Thrillers and Healthcare
With his latest book, 'Viral,' Robin Cook says he's trying to entertain people and get them to think about the parts of healthcare that aren't working...

Google's Head of AI Talks About the Future of the EHR and Technology in Medicine
To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/954956
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Simplifying COVID Immunology, One Metaphor at a Time
With tales of Post-it Notes and fire trucks, Shane Crotty explains COVID immunology and vaccine responses for scientists and nonscientists alike.

To End Burnout, Doctors Must Change the Culture of Medicine
To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://wwww.medscape.com/viewarticle/953633
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