Episode 044: Peace Be With You, Russian Sex Geckos

Nathan Miller and Aline Sandouk return to react and discuss the latest news and info from the world of medicine and medical education.  We say a little prayer for some Russian geckos sent into space for what should have been the time of their lives, but sadly wasn't.  We also applaud the NIH's solution to the ethical dilemmas posed by the use of Henrietta Lacks' so-called immortal cells in research (catch up on that by going back to episode 025).  We talk about resident- and fourth-year suicides and what to do about the problem.  We talk about Dr. Brian Goldman's solution to medical mistakes: talking about them openly.  And yet another innovative use of 3d printing: medication implants.

Listen to Episode 044: Peace Be With You, Russian Sex Geckos.

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• Sex Geckos Die In Orbit on Russian Space Project
• NIH Finally Makes Good with Henrietta Lacks' Family
• Why Do Doctors Commit Suicide?
• Doctors Make Mistakes. Can We Talk About That?
• LSU Student Creates 3D Medical Implants

Episode 043: COFFEEEEEE!

This week an overly caffeinated Dave is joined by new podcaster Jordan Harbaugh-Williams, who, along with Cole Cheney, Corbin Weaver, and Aline Sandouk discuss the Midwesterner habit of being polite; the Deeded Body Ceremony; and Cole outs Corbin's possible run for office in medical school government.  That's not confirmed, by the way--her spokespeople say she's currently exploring her options and hasn't ruled out a campaign.  Also, a drive through pain medicine clinic in Texas is shut down, for some reason.  Tulane opens a teaching kitchen for medical students.  A review of lithopedion cases.  And a Chinese man gets a 3D printed skull implant operation.

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• 38-Year-Old Skeleton Removed from Woman, 62
• Victoria's Drive Thru Doc indicted
• Tulane School of Medicine opens first-of-its-kind teaching kitchen
• Farmer left with chunk missing from his skull after fall has it rebuilt with 3D printer

Episode 041: The M1s Are All Right

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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• Should We Regulate Poop As A Drug?
• DIY Diagnosis: How An Extreme Athlete Uncovered Her Genetic Flaw
• Touro Med Student Secures $250K Grant for Lifesaving Technology
• Woman Feeds Tapeworms to Daughter on Untold Stories of the ER

Episode 041: Orientation Week!

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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• Is this the next big leap for organ transplants?
• Walmart wants to be your doctor's office.
• How Dr. Heimlich Maneuvered Hollywood into backing his dangerous AIDS "cure".
• 6-year-old boy with scoliosis is first in New York area to get magnetic spine lengthening.

Episode 040: Finding A Way Out

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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• The Other Wes Moore, by Wes Moore
• McNair Scholars Program
• Upward Bound
• Summer Research Opportunities Program
• Hospital Gives Free Tattoo Removals to Gang Members
• Fighting Gangs the Healthy Way
• Health Care Professionals Response to Gang Violence

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

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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• The Future of Medicine Depends on The Most Fragile Places on Earth
• Fist Bumps Safer Than Handshakes
• Case Med School Student Out To Prove She's the Fittest Woman On Earth
• Peace Corps Pulls Volunteers Over Ebola Outbreak
• Indian Boy Who Had a World Record 232 Teeth

Episode 038: Changing the World Outside the Clinic

Doctors enjoy, for better or worse, and elevated social status.  How can they use that high regard, as well as their knowledge, to change the world when they're not in the clinic?
In this episode, Alison Pletch, Zeynep Demir, Eric Wilson, and Alison Seline brainstorm some avenues from politics to journalism that docs explore when they have the itch to change the world.

Listen to Episode 038: Changing the World Outside the Clinic.

• Working Mom Arrested for Letting Her 9-Year-Old Play Alone at Park and This Widow's 4 Kids Were Taken After She Left Them Home Alone
• Israel-Gaza conflict: Doctor Mads Gilbert evokes conditions in a Gaza hospital
• A Day in the Life of a Successful Nurse Writer
• Four Ways Katie Couric Stacked The Deck Against Gardasil
• Agriculture and Health Policies Intro
• Physicians of the 113th Congress
• UIHC spinout seeks to reduce blindness

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