Season 3, Episode 2: The Quantum Leapt That is PCI

Medical historians endlessly debate the greatest medical advancements. Among them are vaccination credited to Jenner in 1796; anesthesia credited to Crawford-Long in 1842; antibiotics with Fleming’s discovery of penicillin in 1928; and X-rays credited to the Curies and Roentgen in 1895. Then you have organ transplantation, public health improvements, insulin, the microscope, germ theory, and the discovery of DNA by Watson and Crick. “The Weekly Check-Up Podcast’s” list concludes with computerized tomography, the fiber optic endoscope, and percutaneous coronary intervention or PCI. Together these discoveries resulted in a quantum leap in disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, as we'll hear on this episode.