67 - Fever on the Frontier

What does it mean when a computer can make better medical decisions than a human? The progress in large language models, and in particular the popularity of ChatGPT, has brought these questions to the forefront in 2023, but we've been discussing this for over 50 years. In this ep ...  Show more

What happens when a patient far from surgical care – say, at the bottom of the Pacific ocean on a submarine, or at a research base in Antarctica in the middle of the winter – develops a surgical abdomen? This dilemma was the impetus to build the first truly effective clinical dec ...  Show more

It took a while to figure out the cause of milk sickness. One woman often gets credit for solving the mystery, but does that story hold up?

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Scarlet fever is treatable with antibiotics, but in the middle of the 19th century, it was the leading cause of death in children in some parts of the world. Today, there are several ongoing mysteries about the disease.

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August 27, 1900. Dr. Jesse Lazear, a U.S. Army surgeon, walks into Las Animas Hospital Yellow Fever ward in Havana Cuba, toting a brood of mosquitos. He has the system down: remove the cotton stopper that keeps the mosquito penned in its glass vial, turn the vial over, and seal i ...  Show more

Dr. Amara Finch presents a case of abdominal pain at VMR to Maani, Maria, Anna and Smitha. Want to learn more about Women in Diagnosis (WDx) series? Blog post– by Smitha Download CPSolvers App here  Patreon website Schema Want to test your learning? Take our Episode Quiz Dr. Amar ...  Show more