Medfield State Hospital

A basketball fan goes to the hall of fame – and no, it’s not the big one in Massachusetts that you may be thinking about. Hear the story behind a Midwest state’s special link to the sport.READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/indiana-basketball-hall-of-fame- ... Show More

Deep in the Phoenix Gold Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado, a strange noise inspires a legend.Every Thursday this month, writer Colin Dickey joins us to talk about the cultural history behind some of our favorite spooky legends and creatures. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz compan ... Show More

Today, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk is viewed as the founder of the modern Czech state – a George Washington-like figure. When he died in the 1930s, his final words were sealed in an envelope…which then passed from his son, who died under mysterious circumstances in the 1940s, to a sec ... Show More

In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitutionalization — is widely blamed for seriously mentally ill people ending up on the streets. The real story goes much deeper than a loss of ... Show More

The Acute Hospital At Home program in Oxford, England keeps patients in their own homes, who might otherwise be admitted to hospital. Professor Dan Lasserson takes Dr. Brian Goldman on the road to show how they bring effective and safe hospital care right into patients’ homes. 

Tonight, author Mark Leslie will discuss his book Haunted Hospitals, in which he examines hospitals, asylums, and sanatoriums with formal spectral residents who refuse to move on.  Hospitals are supposed to be places of healing, places of birth, and places of hope. But with all o ... Show More

It’s been a couple of weeks since everyone moved out to college so we sat down to talk about getting homesick and feeling out of place in a non-diverse environment. Take the science of well-being course with us! Click the link to sign up :) Link: https://click.linksynergy.com/dee ... Show More

The rising tide of psychiatric emergencies in the US most commonly ends up in the emergency room, where psychiatrists are almost never found and the brunt of the heavy lifting falls on emergency medicine physicians.  Here Dr. H sits down with Dr. Treve Henwood, an emergency med p ... Show More

What lurks in the darkness? Some call this place the MOST terrifying building in America. Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky A place where many who were stricken with the illness came to recover from the unforgiving illness... It' ... Show More

One night halfway through a graveyard shift at the hospital, orderly John Moon watched as two young men burst through the doors. They were working desperately to save a dying patient. Maybe today he wouldn’t bat an eye at this scene, but in 1970 nothing about it made sense. The t ... Show More

Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another. This podcast is intended for US healthcare professionals only. To read a full transcript of this episode or to comment please visit: https://www.medscape.com/featur ... Show More