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Medicine and the Machine — 81 episodes

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Wisdom From a Scottish GP: The Lost Art of Convalescence

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His Rare Disease's Cure Was Sitting on the Pharmacy Shelf

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Physicians: Shape Your AI Future or Someone Else Will

4

Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine

5

How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic

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Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine

7

AI Comes to Medicine: This Time, It's Serious

8

Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'

9

There's No Place Like Home for Hospital Care

10

Rogue Faculty and Academic Freedom in the Age of Misinformation

11

How AI and Chatbots Can Make Us Healers Again

12

Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

13

To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air

14

How We Can Err if We Rely on Randomized Controlled Trials

15

How We Create--Then Blame--A Viral Underclass

16

The Golden Age of Virology? An Expert's Take on Polio, Monkeypox, and COVID-19

17

We Are Failing to Use What We've Learned About COVID

18

Hidden in Plain Sight: If AI Can Detect Race, What About Bias?

19

Long COVID: A Very Big Umbrella

20

It's Not All Fun and Games: How DeepMind Unlocks Medicine's Secrets

21

How Medicine Is Failing a Nation in Pain

22

Animal Reservoirs, Immunocompromised Hosts: COVID Dangers Ahead

23

Eric Topol: 'I Still Have My Guard Up'

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The Medical Model Doesn't Work for Mental Health

25

Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now

26

'Historic Botched Job': The Narrative Mechanics of Failed COVID Communication From CDC and Elsewhere

27

COVID Vaccines for the Under 5's: The 'Finish Line' We Need

28

Dr. Glaucomflecken on Why We Can All Use a Laugh Right Now

29

2021: Where We Succeeded, Where We Failed in Pandemic Year Two

30

Former White House COVID Advisor: We Can All Safely Experience Joy This Holiday Season

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Dr Kimberly Manning on Twitter Teaching, Vaccine Deliberation, and Her Own Secret Sauce

32

How Pediatrician Rachel Pearson Brings Along Vaccine-Hesitant Parents

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Dr Ebony Hilton Wants to Talk Herself Out of a Job

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How Machines Bring Humanity Back to Medicine

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Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar: 'Seeing the End of the Pandemic Is Premature'

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A Leading Virologist Reveals His Two 'Nightmare' Viruses

37

'Coma' Author Robin Cook on Medical Thrillers and Healthcare

38

Google's Head of AI Talks About the Future of the EHR and Technology in Medicine

39

Simplifying COVID Immunology, One Metaphor at a Time

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To End Burnout, Doctors Must Change the Culture of Medicine

41

The Medical Students Who Shunned Fear and Dove Into COVID Care

42

Walter Isaacson on CRISPR and the People Behind the Revolution

43

Imagine the Worst, or We're at Our Own Peril: Osterholm

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After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID

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Peter Hotez Talks Russia, Lady Gaga, and the Antiscience Movement

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Tom Frieden on COVID: CDC Fumbles, Blood Clots, and New Approaches

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Roberto Burioni on Conquering COVID and Charming the Skeptics

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COVID Writing Goes Viral: How Literary and Social Media Writing Became a Lifeline During the Pandemic

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It's Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID's Humbling Lesson

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What the NBA's Collaboration With Yale Reveals About COVID Variants

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'The Impact of the Vaccine Has Been Tremendous'

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COVID-Related ARDS May Not Be So Different After All: An ICU Physician's View of What Works

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'We're Only Safe if We're All Safe': Global COVID Vaccination

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Eric Goosby on COVID, Race, and Building Health

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Reducing Risk Now, While Preparing for the Next Pandemic

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Can AI Exist in Medicine Without Human Oversight?

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How HIV Informs COVID: Mark Smith on Crisis, Inequality, and Hope

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Vivek Murthy: Everyone Gets Lonely; Here's How to Counter It

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The Remarkable Value of Thinking Broadly: A COVID-19 Trifecta

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Charting a Path Out of COVID Means Remembering Data and Humanity

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Uché Blackstock, One of the Great Young Activists in Medicine

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Rushing a COVID-19 Vaccine Could Lead to 'Perpetual Limbo'

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COVID-19 Immune Responses Explained

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Fauci to Medscape: 'We're Gonna Get Through It'

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Wearable Tech May Detect COVID-19 Infection Before Symptoms

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Up From the Abyss: Bellevue Starts to Reopen After COVID Peak

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Revolutionizing Medicine With a Simple Touch and a True Exam

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AI for Eyes Is 'Nothing Short of Remarkable'

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With 'Horrendous' Decisions Afoot in COVID-19, Teams Are Key

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'We're Going to Make It Through This,' Stanford Dean Says

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'Our Job Is to Save as Many People as Possible,' ICU Doc Says

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Stanford Hospitalist: 'What I Wish I'd Known 2 Weeks Ago'

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Clinicians' 'Number-One Wish' for Artificial Intelligence

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Bringing Humanity Back Is the 'Greatest Gift AI Can Give'

75

Mindsets Can Make the Difference in Clinical Medicine

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Caregiving and the Soul of Medicine

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It's Time for Physicians to Organize -- For Our Patients' Sake

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Spend Money on AI or Just Give Doctors More Time?

79

AI May Save Some Time, but It Can't Listen to a Patient

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Topol and Verghese on Where the Physical Exam Is Going

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Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese: 'We Need to Be More Human'