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Book Club — 141 episodes

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A Look into a Clinician’s Perspective on Psychiatry

2

Spare Parts: The Story of Medicine Through the History of Transplant Surgery

3

The Whole Body Reset

4

Lifelines: A Physician's Fight for Public Health

5

Fevers, Feuds, & Diamonds: Exploring the Ebola Epidemic

6

Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician's Story of Addiction, Depression, & Recovery

7

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, & Mysteries of Blood

8

COVID-19 Essays from the Front: The First Six Months

9

Surrounded by Others & Yet So Alone

10

Conquer the Clutter: Strategies to Identify, Manage, & Overcome Hoarding

11

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, & Happiness Through INTUITIVE EATING

12

Birth Rights & Wrongs: How Medicine & Technology Are Remaking Reproduction & the Law

13

Bottles of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

14

Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change

15

The Locum Life: A Physician’s Guide to Locum Tenens

16

Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: When Mass Hysteria Strikes

17

Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: Houston, We Have a (Health) Problem

18

Bits from “Bullets and Brains”: The Challenge of Healing After a Headshot

19

Bits from "Bullets and Brains": Taking the Sting out of Scorpion Venom

20

Dr. Google Is a Liar

21

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing

22

Debut a New You: Transforming Your Life at Any Age

23

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

24

The Performance of Medicine

25

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

26

The Bad Food Bible: How & Why to Eat Sinfully

27

Beauty in the Broken Places: Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience

28

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, & the Drug Company That Addicted America

29

Coping with Career Burnout: A Physician's Journey Through Renaissance Art

30

Time for a Heart-to-Heart: Reflections of Life on the Transplant List

31

High Price: How A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery is Challenging Society's Perception on Drugs

32

In Shock: One Doctor's Journey from Death to Recovery and the Redemptive Power of Hope

33

An Epidemic of Empathy in Healthcare: How to Deliver Compassionate, Connected Patient Care

34

Dirt Is Good: The Advantage of Germs for Children's Developing Immune System

35

The Gene Machine: How Genetic Technologies are Changing the Way We Have Kids - and the Kids We Have

36

Mistreated: Why We Think We’re Getting Good Health Care—And Why We’re Usually Wrong

37

The Angry Smile: Exploring the Psychological Impacts of Passive-Aggressive Behavior

38

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear: A Guide to Improving Patient Communication

39

The Hospitalist: A Novel About the Perils of 21st Century Medicine

40

Committed: The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care

41

Transgender Children & Youth: Cultivating Pride & Joy with Families in Transition

42

Dorothy in a Man's World: An Inside Look at the Life and Career of Dr. Dorothy Mendenhall

43

Less Medicine, More Health: 7 Assumptions That Drive Too Much Medical Care

44

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

45

Sometimes Brilliant: The Impossible Adventure of a Spiritual Seeker & Visionary Physician Who Helped Conquer the Worst Disease in History

46

Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

47

Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop

48

Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer's Journey

49

Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflection on Race & Medicine

50

We CAN Fix Healthcare: The Future is NOW

51

Miracles We Have Seen: Astonishing Medical Stories That Defy Logic

52

The Big Five: Five Simple Things You Can Do to Live a Longer, Healthier Life

53

Not Fade Away: A Memoir of Senses Lost and Found

54

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, & Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age

55

The Malaria Project: The U.S. Government's Secret Mission to Find a Miracle Cure

56

1 Out of 10 Doctors Recommends: Weird Cures from the Annals of Medicine

57

Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs

58

10% Happier: How a Journalist Found Self-Help That Actually Works

59

Overcoming Destructive Anger: Strategies That Work

60

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years

61

Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola & Beyond

62

The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year

63

Should I Fire My Doctor? Eleven Essential Elements to Living Well Aware

64

The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery

65

The Traumatized Brain: A Family Guide to Understanding Mood, Memory, and Behavior after Brain Injury

66

Stoned: A Doctor's Case for Medical Marijuana

67

Changing Outcomes: A Financial Recovery Strategy for Peak-Career Physicians

68

Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

69

Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead

70

Stealth Medicine in the White House: the Secret Heart Disease of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

71

Young Doctors and The Perils of Instant Financial Gratification: Guiding Physicians Entering Practice

72

Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk Was America's Favorite Spectator Sport

73

Hunger, Hope & Healing by Sarahjoy Marsh

74

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

75

Heal Your Heart: The Positive Emotions Prescription to Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease

76

Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization

77

Cured: How the Berlin Patients Defeated HIV and Forever Changed Medical Science

78

The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

79

The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest

80

Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted

81

Exercise Will Hurt You: Concussion, Traumatic Brain Injury, and How the Dangers of Sports and Exercise Can Affect Your Health

82

The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

83

Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

84

The Other Talk: A Guide to Talking with Your Adult Children About the Rest of Your Life

85

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

86

The Diabetes Breakthrough: Dr. Osama Hamdy on his 12-week Plan

87

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 2

88

Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death

89

Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages

90

The Witch in the Waiting Room: A Physician Investigates Paranormal Phenomena in Medicine

91

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis

92

On the Art of Caring

93

Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why

94

Advice to the Healer: On the Art of Caring

95

Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries

96

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History

97

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, Part 1

98

League of Denial: The NFL, Concussions and the Battle for Truth

99

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentlemen Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

100

Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

101

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

102

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

103

Pox: An American History

104

Born To Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

105

The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today

106

Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It

107

Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality

108

Surgeon in Blue: Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care

109

The Power of Habit

110

God's Hotel: a Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine

111

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

112

The Road Back: A Journey of Grace and Grit

113

The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

114

Bringing Spirituality Into the Hospital

115

Coping Strategies for Patients Growing up With Chronic Illness

116

Statins & The Stanley Cup: a Patient's Challenges with Heart Disease

117

My Father's Heart: A Son's Journey

118

Alice Stewart: The Woman Who Knew Too Much

119

Blood Matters: From Inherited Illness to Designer Babies

120

When Doctors Become Patients: How Wounded Healers Heal Best

121

Insomniac: A Doctor's Personal Journey

122

The Longevity Bible: 8 Essential Strategies for Keeping Your Mind Sharp and Your Body Young

123

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Part 2

124

Intern: A Doctor's Initiation, Part 1

125

Cancer on $5 a Day (Chemo Not Included)

126

Revolution In Mind: Freud's Beginnings and the Creation of Psychoanalysis

127

The History of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: a Retrospective with Author Aine Collier

128

Birth Control Through the Ages: A Historical Tour

129

The Humble Little Condom: A History, by Aine Collier

130

A Physician's Chronicle of His Intern Year

131

Will Science Replace Religion?

132

Science and Nonbelief: a Discussion on Religion's Place in Scientific Communities

133

Amalia's Tale: A Poor Peasant, an Ambitious Attorney, and a Fight for Justice

134

Too Young to Feel Old: The Arthritis Doctor's 28-Day Formula for Pain-Free Living

135

Fixing Healthcare with the "Duh" System

136

Delivering Amelia: The Story of a Young Gifted Obstetrician's Mistake and the Psychologist Who Helped Her

137

Mom's Marijuana: Life, Love and Beating the Odds

138

Book Club: "Code Name God"

139

Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: Part 2

140

Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: Part 1

141

13 Dreams Freud Never Had: The New Mind Science