Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Episode 041: The M1s Are All Right

love me tapeworm! by kaelyn, Flickr
One week of the semester gone, and M1s Aline Sandouk, Ethan Craig, and Nathan Miller report in on their experiences.  Who's their favorite lecturer?  They won't say, but they seem to be alive, well, and moving right along. Also, the FDA thinks we should regulate the use of feces as a drug. How an extreme athlete who isn't a scientist did what she always does--pushes through the pain--to discover her genetic flaw when no-one else could. A company founded by a medical student with a bioengineering background comes up with a smart, simple, easy way to treat a scourge of childbirth in developing countries--postpartum hemorrhage. And a quick plug for The Discover Fit & Health channel which continues its fine tradition of infotainment programming with "Untold Stories of the ER," featuring a story of a woman who fed her daughter tapeworms to get her ready for that all-important beauty pageant.

Listen to Episode 041: The M1s Are All Right.


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Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Episode 041: Orientation Week!

Compulsory #1 (SUCCESS!), by Jason Epping (Flickr)
This week, first-year medical student Corbin Weaver joins the team, and gives Keenan Laraway the low-down on her orientation week experiences.  We discuss the alleged shady medical theories of Dr. Henry Heimlich (of the eponymous maneuver), a 6-year-old's MAGEC spine correction treatment, Walmart's desire to be your primary care doc's office, and a device that might just revolutionize the transportation of (and therefore the whole process of transplanting) donor organs.

Listen to Episode 041: Orientation Week!.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Episode 040: Finding A Way Out

Arleta Gang Shooting Investigation by Flickr/Chris Yarzab
In this episode, we meet new Carver College of Medicine Learning Communities Coordinator Megan McDowell, who I shanghaied into being on the show after she'd been on the job only 4 days and 3 hours.  Then Terrance Wong shares a painful moment from his past growing up in Oakland, California, amidst gangs and gang violence, and what he's trying to do for a pre-medicine student who's searching for his own exit strategy. What can healthcare professionals do in the face of such upheaval?

Listen to Episode 040: Finding a Way Out of Gang Violence.
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Monday, August 4, 2014

Episode 039: Fist Bumps, Ebola, and Too Many Teeth

Updated Bump Sign. Flickr: aaron_anderer
This week, Cole Cheney, Terrance Wong, and Lisa Wehr  marvel at an Indian boy's odontoma and its many, many, many toothlets.  Also, how to decrease transmission of Ebola by using fist-bumps instead of handshakes and have the hippest clinic in the world all at the same time.  Also, Ebola.  The Second Fittest Woman On Earth hopes to do better, and how the future of pharmacology is imperiled by climate change.

Listen to Episode 039: Fist bumps, Ebola, and Too Many Teeth.

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