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#215 Medical Myths: Challenge Dogma with Dr. Douglas Paauw

Chase that metronidazole with a beer! Pop some 30 year old pills! Retrain your brain as our esteemed guest Dr. Douglas Paauw goes over his popular annual ACP presentation on Medical Myths. Learn about how some common medical myths originate and continue in our practice. We discuss why it’s okay to …

009 - Dr. Rajeev Ramchand, Epidemiologist

Our guest on Episode 009 is Dr. Rajeev Ramchand. He joins Emily and Jason - after a decade lapse in contact - to help us understand the COVID-19 pandemic better using an epidemiological lens and to educate others about where we are and where we are going. Their conversation covers the basics of epi…

How to stop an epidemic

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is running for president with a plan to fight the opioid epidemic. Her legislation would dramatically expand access to addiction treatment and overdose prevention, and it would cost $100 billion over 10 years. Addiction experts agree that this is the kind of money the United S…

219 Patient Zero

In 1987 journalist Randy Shilts chronicled the early years of AIDS in North America in his book And the Band Played On. Shilts’ reporting was mostly concerned with the failures of the U.S. government and healthcare infrastructure to respond to AIDS, but much of the promotion and hype around the boo…

Bonus: Randy Shilts Biographer Andrew E. Stoner

Host King Kaufman interviews Andrew E. Stoner, the author of “The Journalist of Castro Street: The Life of Randy Shilts,” which is out this month.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1982: Randy Shilts and the Dawn of AIDS

The headline about what would become the AIDS epidemic was buried on Page 6. It was the first story on the disease by the man who would become its voice: Randy Shilts. A special longform edition of Not Your Century. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Podcast 273: The journals and the pandemic — NEJM

Eric Rubin is editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. I asked him how COVID-19 has affected that journal, which has been around since the War of 1812 and seen its share of pandemics. Listen in — it’s the first in a planned series of interviews with the editors of the principal cli…

Happy 69th Birthday Gilbert Baker

Today is the 69th birthday of the activist Gilbert Baker. I first learned of his exceptional contributions to the world through Randy Shilts’ book and was happy to see him get more exposure through Dustin Lance Black’s miniseries. You have done the world a great service if Google makes a doodle to …

John-Manuel Andriote, patient advocate.

John-Manuel Andriote has written about health and medical issues since the mid-1980s. He has specialized in reporting on HIV-AIDS since earning a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in 1986. Kirkus Reviews called his award-winning University of Chicago Press book VICTORY DEFE…

The 1975 Heroism of Oliver Sipple (that ruined his life) (Episode 120)

Join us for our last episode of the season, wherein Ella and Greg discuss how a selfless act of heroism led to the ruination of a man's personal life. We'll discuss how to NOT be a good friend, the state of human rights in 1975, and how far society's come since then - and how far we still have to g…