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.

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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.

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• 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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Episode 037: Junk Science

Junk science dominates our thoughts in this episode, our first recording in front of a live studio audience (the Introduction to Medical Education at Iowa students who were kind enough to join us).  Cole Cheney, Alison Pletch, Keenan Laraway, and Eric Wilson talked about Dr. Mehmet Oz's recent troubles, including a New York M3 who asked the AMA and the NY Medical Association to step in.  Also, Cole drops some new research knowledge on us about why pot makes people paranoid (hint--having a researcher stand over you asking you if you're paranoid might be another known cause of paranoia), and The Egyptian Army says it has cured HIV and hepatitis, or so they claim, using a simple point and shoot device that detects AND purifies the blood.   But it needs a leeeeetle more testing...

• AIDS-curing device needs more testing, Egypt's army says
• Meet the medical student who wants to bring down Dr. Oz
• Physician Sounds Alarm On Illegal Drugs Sold On Amazon

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Episode 036: Terrible Business Ideas for Medical Students

This time Lisa Wehr, Cole Cheney, and Zhi Xiong get to hear Dave's many terrible business ideas for medical students.

Also, Zhi shares her enjoyment of studying for Step 2 CK and CS. A NY medical school proposes a terrorism-focused curriculum, which sounds nice. We view a trailer for the independent film Code Black created by an LA emergency medicine doc. Missouri is thinking about creating 'assistant physicians' to drastically shorten the intern year.  And Cole shares research that shows mice will readily use a running wheel and tell their friends about it, if you just set it in the woods where they live, thus paving the way for tiny mouse gym memberships and strip malls.

• Terror may become a bigger focus in medical school
• Code Black
• Missouri legislators would allow assistant doctors 
• Sick notes for sale as World Cup fever grips China

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Episode 035: Freestyling in Bean!

Lisa Wehr and Dave are free styling in Bean Learning Community! 

Our own Lisa Wehr, in a grain bin.

We talk about her recent class on the public health aspects of farming.  How a 3-year-old in a Batman suit and 43 seniors in an IHOP helped create a tool (launching soon) that promises to help seniors understand and talk to their doctors about the costs of care. We discuss social media health information, and how it’s the worst.  An ER doc asks herself whether docs need to get hit by cars to understand what their patients are trying to tell them.  A geneticist sequences his unborn child’s genome “because it’s cool.” How the British Cycling team’s efforts to win the Tour de France suggests that the ‘aggregation of marginal gains’ might be better and easier than big, sexy fixes, even in healthcare and studying medicine.  And Cleveland Clinic is forced to graduate a student who just…well, he didn’t meet their professionalism goals for their students.

• Power To The Health Data Geeks
• ‘Nothing Is Broken’: For An Injured Doctor, Quality-Focused Care Misses The Mark
• For One Baby, Life Begins with Genome Revealed
• This Person Improved Every Tiny Thing by 1 Percent and Here's What Happened
• Judge Orders Case Western to Grant Diploma to Medical Student

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Episode 034: Freestyling in Boulware!

This week, Lisa Wehr and I talk about the dangers of lady hurricanes (do NOT ignore a lady or you will suffer).  A Yale prof get's addicted to an exercise app.  Bringing cheaper medical equipment to developing countries.  Iowa's new Pappajohn Biomedical Discovery Building is nearing completion, which is nice for science but even nicer for people who don't want to look at mounds of dirt any more. X-factors in med school applications--what is (was) yours?  Apple moves on creating a place to store all the data your apps are currently housing separately.

• Female-named hurricanes kill more than male hurricanes because people don’t respect them
• Is Some Tech Too Addictive?
• The secret to surviving surgery in a little yellow box
• Apple's Answer to the Quantified You

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Episode 033: Freestyling in Flocks!

Summer is here, and...everyone's gone. Except for Lisa Wehr, who joined Dave Etler for a little freestyle convo in Flocks Community.   We congratulated the recently graduated M4s, talk a little about the dreaded 'dean's letter,' or MSPE, and some of our favorite stories from the past few weeks' news:

• UC Irvine plans med school's Google Glass integrations.
• Medicine's top earners aren't MDs.  
• Medical students aren't competent to treat patients with disabilities.
• Students aren't being trained to disclose medical errors, apologize.
• Fork-swallowing Romanian's docs take 'First, do no harm' perhaps too seriously?

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