Episode 118: Dr Ralph Hruban - A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine

Today my guest is Pathologist Dr Ralph Hruban What we discuss with Dr Ralph Hruban : The original idea for his new book, A Scientific Revolution: Ten Men And Women Who Reinvented American Medicine,  and why he chose to write it at this time How the book grew from his Hopkins at Home lecture series Why he chose to include those with a connection to Johns Hopkins The writing process, and some new things he learned while researching the book Why it was important to show how some of the people in the book faced racism and sexism Why it was important to highlight not only accomplishments, but flaws as well How the stories of the fight against Yellow Fever and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic have parallels to the fight against COVID-19 How his perspective of history changed as a result of writing this book His thoughts on what may be his next project Links for this episode: Health Podcast Network  LabVine Learning Doctors on Social Media The ConfLab from LabVine Dress A Med scrubs   A Scientific Revolution on Amazon The Great Influenza on Amazon Peabody Library Lessons For Today From Nine Greats Lecture Series   People of Pathology Podcast: Website Twitter