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Stories in Medicine
Informative and entertaining stories from the editors of the journal Medicine featuring article highlights, hot topics, and other things on their minds. The journal, published every other month and now in its 90th year, includes scholarly reviews and clinical descriptions of patients from the experience of leading clinicians from around the world in the areas of internal medicine, dermatology, neurology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. The editors, David Hellmann, John Bartlett, Howard Lederman, and Roy Ziegelstein, are renowned teacher-researcher-physicians affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Episodes
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Legionella pneumophila Pneumonia: Not Your Father's Pontiac Fever
Dr. John Bartlett discusses the article "Community-Acquired Legionella pneumophila Pneumonia: A Single-Center Experience With 214 Hospitalized Sporadic Cases Over 15 Years" from the January 2013 issue. He talks about the bounty of Spanish bacterial studies and the fascinating bug that is…
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Chikungunya: A Long-Term Perspective
Dr. John Bartlett talks about long-term sequelae of chikungunya viral infection, the limitation of self-reporting, and the serendipity that sometimes results in medical epidemiologic discovery.
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Pinning Down Pleural Effusion: Prelude to a Revolution
Dr. John Bartlett discusses the article “Systematic Use of Universal 16S rRNA Gene Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Sequencing for Processing Pleural Effusions Improves Conventional Culture Techniques." Exciting new molecular techniques are being developed that will be able to identify the…
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Will You Be My Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Exotoxin?
In this episode, Dr. John Bartlett recaps the rise and fall of the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) exotoxin as a suspect in high mortality and devastating infections related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The story starts in France and goes global, with a stop in the...
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John Bartlett's Love for Medicine is Infectious
The first of a series of stories from Dr. John Bartlett, Associate Editor of the journal Medicine and former chief of the division of infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. In this episode Dr. Bartlett talks about why he loves infectious diseases, how he got into the field as a young...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Informative and entertaining stories from the editors of the journal Medicine featuring article highlights, hot topics, and other things on their minds. The journal, published every other month and now in its 90th year, includes scholarly reviews and clinical descriptions of patients from the experience of leading clinicians from around the world in the areas of internal medicine, dermatology, neurology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. The editors, David Hellmann, John Bartlett, Howard Lederman, and Roy Ziegelstein, are renowned teacher-researcher-physicians affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
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