Episodes

  • The final Medicine and the Machine podcast guest, physician and author Gavin Francis, shares his approach to keeping his occupation rewarding and satisfying.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Gavin Francis, MBChB (Hons), BSc (Hons), Department of Primary Care, Edinburgh University; General Practitioner, Department of Primary Care, Community Clinic, Edinburgh

    Free For All. https://www.gavinfrancis.com/books/free-for-all-why-the-nhs-is-worth-saving/

    Recovery: The Lost Art of Convalescence. https://www.gavinfrancis.com/books/recovery/

    Adventures in Human Being. https://www.gavinfrancis.com/books/adventures-in-human-being/

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  • He's alive thanks to a repurposed drug. Now his dream is to find cures for millions of people from among drugs we already have.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine; Director, Center for Cytokine Storm Treatment & Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Chasing My Cure. https://chasingmycure.com/

    His Doctors Were Stumped. Then He Took Over. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/business/his-doctors-were-stumped-then-he-took-over.html

    Every Cure. https://everycure.org/

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  • Dr Eric Topol discusses the present and future of AI in medicine with historian and futurist Dr Adam Rodman.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, Instructor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-director, iMED Initiative, Department of Internal Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

    SHORT CUTS: MEDICINE, Navigate Your Way Through Big Ideas, Adam Rodman, MD, MPH; ISBN: 9781785789946. https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/short-cuts-medicine/

    Bedside Rounds podcast. http://bedside-rounds.org/

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  • A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, MD; https://www.abrahamverghese.org/books/

    Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, Joseph P. Newhouse Professor, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Physician, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

    Random Acts of Medicine. Anupam B. Jena and Christopher Worsham. Penguin Random House. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708150/random-acts-of-medicine-by-anupam-b-jena-md-phd-and-christopher-worsham-md/

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  • The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toronto; Staff Physician, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    The Autumn Ghost, Hannah Wunsch, MD; https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-autumn-ghost

    Why we can thank a polio emergency for the birth of intensive care; Nature 618, 234-235 (2023), Eric Topol; https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01830-3

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  • The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, MD; https://www.abrahamverghese.org/books/

    Robert M. Wachter, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

    https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter

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  • Information pollution is just the beginning. We're in for an uncomfortable ride.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Isaac S. Kohane, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

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  • Dr Eric Topol and Dr Robert Harrington interview Dr Abraham Verghese about his fiction writing methods and Oprah's enthusiasm for his latest novel.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    The Covenant of Water, Abraham Verghese, MD; https://www.abrahamverghese.org/books/

    Robert A. Harrington, MD, Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California

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  • Dr Helen Ouyang on why she writes so much about the hospital-at-home movement: It's the future, one way or another.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    Helen Ouyang, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Attending Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY

    Your Next Hospital Bed Might Be at Home, The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/magazine/hospital-at-home.html

    Hashtag Prescription, Harper's Magazine. https://harpers.org/archive/2016/06/hashtag-prescription/

    Acute Hospital Care at Home Individual Waiver Only (not a blanket waiver), CMS.gov. https://qualitynet.cms.gov/acute-hospital-care-at-home

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  • Should our nation's academic institutions rein in faculty who amplify conspiracy theories and spread potentially harmful falsehoods?

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    Robert A. Harrington, MD, Arthur L. Bloomfield Professor; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford University; Chair, Department of Medicine, Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, California

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  • ChatGPT and large language models offer physicians the chance to do what they went to medical school for: connect with patients and help them regain their health.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Aaron B. Neinstein, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Vice President, Digital Health, UCSF Health, San Francisco, California

    Our AI Future is Better Than You Think: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02021-9

    Tidepool: https://www.tidepool.org/

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  • Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    Hannah Fry, MSc, PhD, Professor, Mathematics of Cities, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine https://hannahfry.co.uk/book/hello-world/

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  • Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Linsey Marr, PhD, Charles P. Lunsford Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia

    Study shows cloth face coverings help protect both wearers and those nearby https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2020/11/eng-marrmasks-1123.html

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  • Dr Trish Greenhalgh explains how we miss the boat when we discount real-world evidence in favor of randomized trial evidence.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

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    Trish Greenhalgh, OBE, MD, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Orthodoxy, illusio, and playing the scientific game: a Bourdieusian analysis of infection control science in the COVID-19 pandemic [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Res 2021, 6:126

    https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16855.3

    Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2. The Lancet, Vol 397; May 2021

    https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00869-2

    Adapt or die: how the pandemic made the shift from EBM to EBM+ more urgent. BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine October 2022; volume 27; number 5

    http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjebm-2022-111952

    Long covid—an update for primary care. BMJ 2022;378:e072117

    http://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-072117

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  • Stephen Thrasher discusses his new book, The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Steven Thrasher, PhD, Assistant Professor, Daniel H. Renberg Chair, Department of Journalism, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Illinois

    The Viral Underclass https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250796639/theviralunderclass

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  • Virologist Jeremy Kamil shares his relatively upbeat perspective on the viral threats we face today.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

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    Jeremy P. Kamil, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Louisiana State University Health, Shreveport, Louisiana

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  • Another COVID-19 variant is inevitable because we aren't doing anything to stop it, says UK operational researcher Christina Pagel.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    Christina Pagel, PhD, Professor, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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  • An AI model accurately predicts a person's race from a chest radiograph with stunning accuracy. Here's why it matters, and how it poses research questions about bias in medicine.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    Judy Gichoya, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

    AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35568690/

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  • Abraham Verghese talks with Stanford's Dr Linda Geng, who is studying the puzzling and poorly understood postviral phenomenon known as long COVID.

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    Abraham Verghese, MD, Physician, author, and educator; Professor and Vice Chair, Theory & Practice of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

    Linda Geng, MD, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Stanford University; Co-Director, Stanford Post-COVID Clinic, Stanford Health Care, Palo Alto, California

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  • Eric Topol speaks with DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis about harnessing the potential of AI in health and medicine.

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    Eric J. Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Professor of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California; Editor-in-Chief, Medscape

    Demis Hassabis, PhD, Founder and CEO, DeepMind, London, United Kingdom

    https://www.deepmind.com/

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