Medicine isn’t always kind to its disabled practitioners, but let’s change that.
In 2023, a group of Iowa med students founded our chapter of the Medical Students With Disabilities and Chronic Illness, a group “working to remove barriers for students and professionals with disabilities, increasing representation of diverse perspectives i ... Show More
Feb 5
Med Students React: Social Media from Helpful to Hogwash
Slather some beef tallow on it. On this episode, M3 Fallon Jung, M1s Isa Perez-Sandi and Cory Karasek, and M2 Maria Schapfel let loose on the internet’s wildest health content. We react to AI-generated videos claiming cortisol is why Dave smells bad, Colonel Sanders warning you a ... Show More
1h 1m
Jan 29
The Surprising Connection Between Hobbies and Medicine
Don’t give up the outside activities that’ll make you a better doc As Dave has observed many times, medicine will take everything you have, if you allow it to. What this means is that you have to carve out time for your own interests, whether you’re a physician or a medical stude ... Show More
1h 6m
Jan 22
Med Students Take the Hot Nugget Challenge
[Content warning: Dave did his best to remove sniffles.] Spicy chicken nuggets, bad decisions, and what happens when medical students test their heat tolerance on mic What happens when medical students, extremely spicy chicken nuggets, and microphones collide? Regret. M1s Reed Ad ... Show More
56m 56s
Jul 2021
Episode 188: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 10 – Counterspaces in Medicine: Creating Safe Spaces and Redefining Value
In this episode, we invite the powerful sister duo Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS and Uché Blackstock, MD to share their experiences on leaving public health and academia to become social entrepreneurs, creating their own organizations in health equity. Episode Learning Objectives After ... Show More
56m 16s
Jul 2014
Medicine 3.0: What Got Us Here Ain’t Gonna Get Us There
<p>If the body is a whole, connected system, why does modern medicine so often treat it as a calamity of isolated causes, effects and symptoms?</p><p>A blend of hippie herbalist, science prodigy, <a href="http://avivaromm.com/books" target="_blank">bestselling author</a> and Yale ... Show More
1h 5m
Aug 2020
The Science Behind Spontaneous Healing
In the medical community, miraculous recoveries are typically dismissed as flukes and outliers. Because they can’t be explained within the constructs of typical modern care, they end up in the dustbin. But some doctors, like today’s guest Jeffrey Rediger, MD, believe that this is ... Show More
46m 35s